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There are so many tools available for those that are concerned about their nutrient intake. You can simply input your food for a brief period and it will summarize your intake for every possible known nutrient. If you are going to fret over this might as well be sure.
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If you must take a calcium supplement, take calcium CARBONATE, not citrate. Dr. McDougall has said again and again that citrate can cause other problems.

[Emphasis mine]
http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2012nl/jan/fav5.htm

How very strange
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4 carcinogenic dyes, petrochemical mineral oil, talc which can be carcinogenic if the dust gets on mucus membranes... This is the "good" form of calcium? You can buy cal carb tablets or capsules with nothing else in them at most any health food store and many pharmacies. Why get them loaded w/ poison on the side? Also, I don't really think I have much of an aluminum source in my diet and the citrate form does absorb better....

I agree, and I'm sure Dr. McD does too, but folks can be clueless, and many may mistakenly pick up citrate when they should grab carbonate. TUMS are easily identifiable. The tiny amount of that stuff in there isn't great, but it won't kill ya either.

Sure you do. We all do. Aluminium is everywhere--a few sources include underarm deodorants, aluminum cookware, beverages from aluminum cans, municipal drinking water which often has aluminum compounds added, baking powders, bleached flour, processed cheese, some table salts, and some antacids. Now many of those we can avoid but others we cannot. No point in adding to the problem.

The fact is that the OP of this thread needs a supplement b/c he's 19 and anorexic. The rest of us, if we are eating our leafy greens, do NOT need to take a calcium supplement of any kind. We're getting plenty of calcium, esp. since we aren't doing anything to leach it out of our bones as SAD eaters are.

True about the OP. I dn't really have hardly any of those aluminium sources in my life. Not real sure how much topically applied aluminum, if you use that stuff, gets absorbed but I don't use aluminum cookware (ever), drink well water, don't use baking powder except maybe once or twice a year, never bleached flour/cheese/table salt/antacids. And too often, environmental (which includes food source) carcinogens are active in quite tiny amounts. I just do not get the suggestion for TUMS. Clean cal carb is available everywhere.

Serendipity... just got link to this article on mineral oil today
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/crude-awakening-mineral-oil-contaminates-everyones-bodies?utm_source=www.GreenMedInfo.com&utm_campaign=3b4d19607b-Greenmedinfo&utm_medium=email

Thanks for the replies!

EteSelle, you're right.. I think many vegans can have the peace of mind regarding calcium from leafy greens when the bones aren't compromised.

I will take the calcium carbonate, it is the easiest one to get anyway! I have to search more for the citrate lol... I'm so stupid

I need to get myself on track, I am finishing up college this year.. But I am getting panic attacks, one in the shopping centre with my sister I was so embarrassed but couldn't hide anywhere! so just sat on the floor covered my face and waited it out. Now the therapist has noted it down as fainting

I'm really grateful for your help, thank you.... It's amazing how much decency I can get on a forum than in real life.

I found out that I have scary-low bone density from my first scan a year and a half ago. I'm sure it's from living with undetected celiac disease for over 40 years. And here I was, in my late 40's, about to go through menopause and probably lose even more bone mass. Yikes!

Of course I panicked at first and started taking all these supplements. But then I calmed down and stopped them, and just focused on the things I had been doing all along. I eat lots of collard greens and always get over 1000 mg of calcium in my vegan diet (usually even more). I also walk every day and do yoga for strength. I should lift weights too, but I don't enjoy it, so I haven't started that yet.

And when I tested my bone mineral density a year after the first reading, things had improved! I was so psyched.

I strongly recommend that you address your eating disorder and focus on getting to a healthy weight, consume lots of calcium-rich greens, get regular exercise, fresh air and sunlight for vitamin D, and I'm confident that if you do, your bones will remineralize too. You have the advantage of being young and still in a bone-building phase of life. But you have to actually make the changes to save your body. Health has not been a result of your previous lifestyle, and your body can only take so much abuse.

Panic attacks may be bad for your bones. Stress leads to high cortisol... I recommend stress reduction through meditation , in addition to your walks and weight lifting and jumping.
Best wishes