hitting the bottle

George and I reached for our four bottles of vitamins sitting on the dining room table. "We're getting old," I joked. "The bottles are starting to outnumber us." For him, a multi-vitamin and a B-complex supplement; for me, a prenatal vitamin (don't get any ideas--it's just a good vitamin!) and a calcium/vitamin D supplement. The bottles stay on the table unless we're having company because that is the only working reminder to take them with our dinner every day.

The good news is that getting more calcium can benefit your diet in more ways than one: Besides decreasing your risk of osteoporosis, calcium is being studied more seriously as a supplement that can help you lose weight. Now I have a legitimate excuse to give in to my one weakness--ice cream! ;)