04 Quitting Dairy Leads to Calcium Deficiency

“Milk does a body good” was the 1980s marketing campaign that first positioned dairy as the antidote to osteoporosis. And for the roughly 40% of adults globally who have no trouble digesting it, dairy has its benefits: it’s a source of vitamins D and B12, phosphorus and, of course, bone-building calcium. But tofu, soya milk, pak choi, kale, plus certain beans, nuts and seeds are also rich sources. Many foods are fortified with the mineral, too: in the UK, calcium is added to flour by law. In other words, enjoy dairy if you like it – but you don’t gotta get milk.