It is especially important to make sure that teenage girls obtain adequate calcium because
a. calcium is lost from the body during men-struation.
b. adolescent girls require more calcium than adolescent boys.
c. lactose intolerance is especially common in adolescent girls.
d. adolescent girls often have inadequate in-takes of calcium-rich foods.
D
Calcium intake is a concern for teenage girls because they often have inadequate intakes of cal-cium-rich foods. Iron, not calcium, is lost from the body during menstruation. Adolescent girls and boys have the same calcium needs. Lactose intolerance is not especially common in adoles-cent girls.
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