Hello readers! I recently came across an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine regarding calcium supplementation while breastfeeding. This information relayed to me that calcium supplementation had no detectable benefit in lactating women with a usual dietary intake of less than 800 mg per day (Prentice, 1997, p. 558) Knowing that supplementation is not needed for lactating mothers with adequate dietary intake I still question how this pertains to mothers who are intolerant of milk since calcium supplements help to prevent unnecessary calcium loss from bones in these women (Williams & Worthington-Roberts, 1997, p. 340). Is calcium supplementation beneficial to lactating women intolerant of milk? Prentice, A. (1997). Calcium suuplementation during breast-feeding. The New England Journal of Medicine, 337(8), 558-559. Williams, S.R. & Worthington-Roberts, B.S. (1997). Nutrition in pregnancy and lactation (6th ed). Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark. Heidi Westphal, SN University of North Dakota - College of Nursing