Bisphosphonates! :(

[shootingstar]

I'm forcing myself to try and get more calcium now too...

I can't stand the taste of milk though, but I figure the added sugar of putting something - ANYTHING - in it to make me drink it is worth the extra calories.

I hate medication and will pretty much refuse to take anything unless forced (as in, someone injects it into an IV when my back is broken and I can't fight!)

I was slightly lactose intolerant for a certain time in life, simply because I forgot to drink enough milk.

Then I slowly put myself back on it, in a slightly absent-minded way. I don't always think much about what I eat in a super analytical way. I've always liked the taste of milk. But now it's only skim milk or 2% milk. I no longer care for the creaminess of homogenized milk.

I have it in my daily oatmeal (my oatmeal tends to be milky which is how I learned to have it as a child) or in cereal if I'm travelling, away from home. I put it in coffee or tea (which I know doesn't do it much good. But I need to soften the taste of black coffee or tea.. but without sugar).

THis will sound dumb..to many people here but I have noticed within my generation of Asians born and raised in Canada...the kids, now adults are /look bigger boned and taller. But not fat/much overweight. Just healthy and stronger looking. Amongst some folks, part of the informal comments is the milk, differences in quality of diet.

To illustrate: I am a petite person with small bones but most likely if you were to meet my cousin who is one year older than I, is 4'11" (I'm 5'1"), she really does look more fragile thin. A combination of reasons might be her exercising (if she does any) is not the same intensity/frequency as mine and also she just was never raised on any dairy products. She probably still doesn't eat much dairy products after being in Canada for last 25 yrs.

Her intake of calcium was more on the tofu, plant-based calcium. Some veggies do have higher concentrations of calcium compared to others. **Dairy if it has too much fat, too often, of course is not a good thing.

But now, the next generations thereafter me, well, it's more fat, etc. due to pop, fast foods, if the kids look whole lot bigger than parents. A gross generalization. But all one has to do is look into people's shopping carts in the grocery store lineup. (Restaurant customer observation may not always be accurate since people might eat stuff they normally don't at home.)

From the U.S. National Institute of Health, the source where health care professionals do start:

On calcium, sources of dairy and non-dairy:

http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/calcium.asp

Orange: What I'm saying may not totally apply for your serious bone injury that you are trying to heal. Am just making generic comments.

[jessmarimba]

Thanks for the link. I've never been fond of milk. I'm not generally a picky eater but I'm a picky chef, and a lot of foods that are high in calcium just aren't things I'd prepare or think to add to recipes. Milk and yogurt (and ice cream) are just easiest to think about for me!

[Crankin]

I have never been able to stand the taste of milk. Only had it at breakfast as a kid, never, ever with meals... I think this is a left over from the fact that when my parents grew up, their parents were kosher for a time and milk was never served with any meals, just breakfast and maybe with cake, desserts. Seriously, the thought of drinking milk with any type of real food makes me nauseous. And now, I am somewhat lactose intolerant. I use Lactaid when I eat ice cream or yogurt, though. Sometimes it works and others, well, it doesn't.
So my lack of milk drinking, coupled with the fact that I have every risk factor in the world for osteoporosis, really did me in. No amount of dietary changes in the world could help this. I have taken 12-1800 mg of calcium/vit D for 26 years (before attempting to get pregnant with DS #2) and recently added magnesium to the mix. I eat plenty of the calcium rich veggies, too. So, this is why I have no issue taking Reclast.