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...sandwiches and iced tea." How much iced tea? "Well, a glass with breakfast, a glass or two when he gets home from school and then a couple of more glasses at dinner." What does he drink at lunch? "Chocolate milk." By my count, Dylan was consuming well over 400 mg of caffeine each day. Although the U.S. hasn't yet developed guidelines for caffeine intake for kids, most researchers recommend that children get no more that 100 milligrams of caffeine a day, the equivalent of the average amount of caffeine found in two 12-ounce cans of soda. When...
...turkey as a lighter meat, less fatty," she says. "But when you take a low-cost frozen dinner, they tend to be the cheaper, fattier cuts of meat." One product with surprising nutritional content is Swanson's Hungry Man XXL Roasted Carved Turkey, which clocks in at 5,410 mg of sodium per package. "Turkey may seem a quick meal, but between sodium, fat and cholesterol, you're challenging your body to deal with excesses it may not be happy to deal with," Lanou says...
...help prevent osteoporosis, the degenerative bone disease that afflicts an estimated one-quarter of elderly men and half of elderly women in the U.S. Three years ago scientists at a National Institutes of Health conference on osteoporosis advised Americans to increase their daily intake of calcium to 1,000 mg (compared with the Government RDA of 800 mg); the recommended level for postmenopausal women was an even higher 1,500 mg. Calcium fever soon swept the country...
Calcium supplements, unfortunately, cannot prevent osteoporosis after menopause. At the Bethesda meeting, researchers reported on eight studies that found extra calcium had little or no effect in slowing bone loss, even / when the dosage was as high as 3,000 mg per day. The most effective defense against osteoporosis in these women, all agreed, is estrogen replacement. Such therapy has been linked in the past to an increase in endometrial cancer, but doctors now believe the risk can be minimized by tandem use of progesterone- like hormones...
What about calcium supplements before menopause? Scientists say the best hedge against osteoporosis is strong, dense bones formed during younger years. But a U.S. Public Health survey found that women from 18 to 44 get a daily average of calcium that ranges from 679 mg for the youngest group to 603 mg for the oldest. Some physicians contend that Americans can get necessary amounts by consuming more calcium-rich foods, especially milk and dairy products. Others, questioning whether women will change their diets sufficiently, see a need for pills and fortified foods. That raises the question of what scientists call...