sk8er girl:

buy calcium chewable pills, or their is this modest fudge square that is very excellent and it is full a calcium.

mamabear:

Calcium supplements
Orange juice (most brands have a calcium-fortified one)

Vanessa B:

is it really worth it to you to hurt your body? buy some organic milk at whole foods. their items are cruelty free, and organic. slightly expensive, but a lot better than hurting yourself.

LEATH3R-S0-S0FT:

Why don’t you just drink milk! wow its not like it hurts the cow, it really makes the cow feel better. If we didn’t milk cows they would be in sooo much pain. This is a serious answer. I mean yeah i can know why you don’t eat meat because you have to kill the cow BUT milk is excellent for you and it does not harm the cow at all, its like if you had to pee and you couldn’t unless someone helped get it out of you, you would be in so much pain.

deegarry:

http://www.carrotcafe.com/f/calevel.html

You’ll find all you need at this website

Celtic Tejas:

All the dark conservational leafy Veggies are very high in Calcuim. In fact MUCH higher than dairy products.
Swiss Chard, Kale, Spinach, Romaine lettuce.

Here’s a fantastic article by Dr. John McDougal on this subject. In fact if you want to be a really informed “Veggie” sign up for this free newsletter.

http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/feb/whenfriendsask.htm

geoff_geoff41:

There are many simple ways to get calcium. The best I reckon is in soy milk with added calcium But, there are also calcium tablets and many other other forms of straight calcium.A balanced vegan diet has all the vitamins and minerals you need. But just like non vegetarians, we regularly dont eat a balanced diet.But, vegetarians are regularly more consiuos of their diet. Sea vegetables are a fantastic source of minerals.Different ones control different things.There is plenty of organic dairy about but none is cruelty free and it all has draw backs for your health. How would you feel if you were forced into pregnancy and then when your baby was born it was taken away, just so someone could get your milk?
Dairy is terrible for your liver. It does control certain vitamins and minerals but they are available elsewhere. Vit B12 is one to watch as a vegan. Very terrible if you become deficient but there is modest known about B12. If you live where the sunlight is low or you never go outdoors, take a Vit D suplement as well. maybee also in the soy milk. This lets your body absorb the calcium.
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Adela:

Dear sport_gurl, this is your lucky day since you got the best answers by Justme, Tom Barrister, degarry, and Celtic Tejas…with fantastic links and none less than Dr. John McDougall, a highly respected physician specializing in nutrition!!! Please stay away from calcium supplements and other medicines, apart from for vitamin D (to help absorb properly the calcium already in your body) only if you don’t get any sun for at least 15 minutes on any part of your body. Vegan and vegetarian food has everything your body needs. Remember, when Nature (or God if you prefer) produced vegetarian animals, of which the humans are part, she also produced right along, the PROPER food to keep her creation strong and healthful. So you’ll be smart to get your calcium from the food. ) If I may also add a few links which you can read at your leisure:

For healthful bones: http://www.milksucks.com/osteo.asp

All illnesses: http://notmilk.com/
Kosher people beware of pigmilk:

http://notmilk.com/pigmilk.html

Truth About Proteins (I give you this as too much protein affects adversely keeping the calcium from leaving our body): http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/protein.html

As to Mr. Leather3…sir, dairy cows suffer even MORE than beef cows, both suffer each second of their miserable existence and then – to brutal slaughter… but dairy cows stay much longer being agonizingly distressed until they collapse. Give yourself the gift of knowledge and read this link, and the ones I and the others here offered the asker: ;o) See these “hapy” cows and their babies:

http://www.unhappycows.com/dairycows.asp

Ciao! Adela

hello_be_happy:

As far as I know, Clover Stornetta is relatively very much cruelty-free of a dairy type, and def. organic. You can read more about how they treat their cows here:
http://cloverstornetta.com/faq.html

And just about each milk I have seen, even at Albertsons, puts a sticker saying that the cows used were not treated with rBST. I’d highly recommend organic, due to no antibiotics, hormones or pesticides and the cows are supposed to get to roam about and munch in fresh organic pastures. Unfortunately, just because something is organic doesn’t mean that the cows are treated well, so if you need milk I’d stick with Clover Stornetta. Try organic yogurt too, that should be exceptional for calcium. If you’re worried you won’t like the taste of milk, you can try organic chocolate milk. I’m personally not a fan of milk for myself (I stopped drinking it 2-3 years ago) but I’m sure that will be an effective way to get the calcium you need. Don’t know if you can get enough from all those conservational vegetables.

My parents have always been very serious and staunch believers in the nutritional regard of milk, so I would have never been able to go vegan when a teenager at home. I hope you are intake healthily while so young and bones are still growing. In stipulations of the vegan material, soy milk provides excellent calcium, albeit in the form of calcium carbonate, and maybe soy yogurt would also help. You can always have those Clif Builder Bars, they’re vegan and grant lots of nutrients for a growing, athletic body. And I don’t reckon a vegan diet is necessarily unhealthy, in fact I’m pretty much on a vegan diet for myself and feel healthful most of the time.

zaddi j:

iv’e been vegetarian for 3 years. what i do is buy calcium enriched soy milk and mix with sustagen powder hospital mix.(chocolate flavoured) it has 26 or so vitamins and is really useful for vegies.