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Daily calcium and vitamin D targets by life stage, plus a food tally showing how close your day actually gets.
This calculator gives the daily calcium and vitamin D a woman needs at her age and life stage, then tallies what a real day of food actually delivers against it. The targets are the Institute of Medicine dietary reference intakes: 1300 mg of calcium through ages 9 to 18, 1000 mg from 19 to 50, and 1200 mg from 51 onward, alongside 600 IU of vitamin D up to age 70 and 800 IU after. It also shows the gap in milligrams and which everyday foods would close it.
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Enter the values you already know.
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Uses the IOM dietary reference intakes for both calcium and vitamin D, not rounded-off advice.
Adds up servings so you can see where the day's calcium is really coming from.
Flags the 2000-3000 mg calcium ceiling and the 4000 IU vitamin D ceiling for your age band.
1000 mg a day between 19 and 50, rising to 1200 mg from 51 onward, and 1300 mg for girls and teenagers aged 9 to 18. Those are the Institute of Medicine recommended dietary allowances, and the same figures underpin most national guidance.
No. Pregnancy and breastfeeding do not raise the calcium RDA — the gut simply absorbs a larger share of what you eat, and bone turnover adapts. A pregnant woman aged 19 to 50 stays on 1000 mg a day; a pregnant teenager stays on 1300 mg.
600 IU (15 micrograms) a day from age 1 to 70, and 800 IU (20 micrograms) from 71, with a tolerable upper limit of 4000 IU. Vitamin D matters here because without enough of it the gut absorbs only a fraction of dietary calcium, so a high calcium intake with low vitamin D underdelivers.
Yes. The tolerable upper intake level is 2500 mg a day for ages 19 to 50 and 2000 mg from 51, with 3000 mg for ages 9 to 18. Habitually exceeding it — usually through supplements rather than food — is associated with kidney stones. Absorption also drops off above roughly 500 mg taken at one time, so spreading intake across meals beats one large dose. This is informational; discuss supplements with a doctor, particularly with kidney disease or a history of stones.
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