Bones grow on three things: calcium (ragi, til, curd, milk), vitamin D (twenty minutes of morning sun on skin), and play (jumping builds bone). Cold fizzy drinks leach calcium — swap them out first. Ragi porridge is the single best bone food for a child.
Ragi porridge with jaggery, three mornings a week.
Traditional
सुबह की धूप · Morning sunlight
Twenty minutes of morning sun on arms and legs — the vitamin D that makes calcium work.
Traditional
On this page Documented — There are human studies behind this ingredient for this particular complaint. Traditional — Carried by tradition and experience; modern evidence for this particular complaint is limited.
All of this is what others have found — tradition, shared experience and the studies done so far. It is not advice given to any one person. Before changing your diet, and especially if you take any medicine, ask your dietician or doctor.
Bhojanveda
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