<p>peter_parker: </p>
<p>Your table shows calcium per 100 calories - you have to eat a <em>lot</em> more broccoli for 100 calories than milk. Here is a fairer comparison:</p>
<p>1 cup skim milk: 302 mg calcium
1 cup chopped broccoli: 42 mg calcium</p>
<p>[Dietary</a> Supplement Fact Sheet: Calcium](<a href=“http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/factsheets/calcium.asp]Dietary”>http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/factsheets/calcium.asp)</p>
<p>Thank you for posting a statistic that was on page 1 of this thread.</p>
<p>More interesting facts:</p>
<p>American Journal of Clinical Nutrition</p>
<p>Absorbable calcium (amount of calcium in food you can actually use).</p>
<p>Milk 26.7%
Chocolate Milk 23.2%</p>
<p>Broccoli 52.6%
Brussel Sprouts 63.8%
Mustard Greens 57.8%</p>
<p>The difference is, broccoli does not have harmful side effects.</p>
<p>Anyway, too much calcium is bad too because it competes with absorption of another essential mineral: magnesium.</p>
<p>Milk is similar to soda - it tastes good, drink what you may, but it’s not doing wonders for your health.</p>
<p>Whoever says they have grown taller from drinking milk is silly. Milk/food/vitamins might help you grow to your genetic height potential - but nothing, NOTHING trumps genes.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to sound contrarian, but you’ve taken it a bit far as well.</p>
<p>You’re right that milk has virtually zero effect on height (unless a person is starving and all they have for sustinence is milk - or some crazy scenario like such).</p>
<p>But genes are not the end-all-be-all.</p>
<p>If you’ve taken pretty much any psychology class or some biology classes, they all pretty much reiterate that experience and external stimuli often influence gene expression. Even amongst identical twins there are thousands of biological differences.</p>
<p>I guess you’re right in that there is probably no way to INCREASE your genetic height potential - only lots of ways to decrease it as of right now.</p>