What calcium does for you
Aside from building strong bones, your body needs calcium to handle other important tasks: to move muscles, send messages through the nervous system, help release hormones and enzymes, and circulate blood. While calcium supports all of these critical functions, more than 99% of this precious mineral gets stored in your bones and teeth to keep them healthy and strong - and to have calcium on hand for when you really need it.
If you're not getting enough calcium in your diet, especially during pregnancy, your body will actually draw what it needs from your bones, as if borrowing it, until you replace it with new calcium. Over time, this can weaken your bones.
Storing calcium for the future
Your body can't make calcium, so it absorbs it from your diet and from supplements, then stores it. From childhood through your teen years, you build up your calcium stores until you reach your peak bone mass; you then stop increasing your calcium stores and start maintaining them. That's why getting calcium early on and throughout your life is so important.
How your bones change
The calcium-rich foods you need
Since your body depends on you to fuel up with calcium-rich foods and supplements like Viactiv® Calcium plus D, knowing your go-to sources is important. Here's how much daily calcium is recommended for you, and the high calcium food choices that can help you reach your daily requirement - in addition to the 650 mg of calcium you get in every tasty Viactiv® Calcium plus D chew.

Your Daily Calcium, By Age:
The FDA has increased the recommended daily value of calcium by 30% to 1,300 mg.— a new standard for all people 4 years old and up. Viactiv is meeting this new standard now, well ahead of the FDA’s 2020 deadline, to still deliver 100% of your daily value of calcium a day in just two tasty chews.
To Bank In Childhood | To Maintain In Adulthood (Also During Pregnancy and Lactation) | To Slow Down Bone Loss in Menopause | |
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To Bank In Childhood | To Maintain In Adulthood (Also During Pregnancy and Lactation) | To Slow Down Bone Loss in Menopause | |
Age range: | 4 to 18 years old | 19 to 50 years old | 51+ years old |
Recommended daily calcium intake: | 1,300 mg | 1,300 mg | 1,300 mg |
Recommended upper limit for calcium: | 2,500 mg | 2,500 mg | 2,500 mg |