Comments on: Best Sources Of Calcium http://www.organicden.com/best-sources-of-calcium/ Organic Den Sun, 16 May 2010 01:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: asd http://www.organicden.com/best-sources-of-calcium/comment-page-1/#comment-116 asd Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:21:24 +0000 http://www.organicden.com/?p=88#comment-116 What a great resource! What a great resource!

]]> By: Evz http://www.organicden.com/best-sources-of-calcium/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Evz Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:57:37 +0000 http://www.organicden.com/?p=88#comment-47 Ok... but you left a bunch of important stuff out! We don't 'make' calcium, but through diet & physical activity we determine whether it exists in our bones or in our bloodstream (for eventual excretion, in urine). Bone is metabolically active, like muscle: you can't get buffed up by just popping protein pills, & you can't get strong bones from just eating calcium. Weightbearing/ resistive exercise builds bone mass, and inactivity reduces it. That's why astronauts (who have very well-managed nutritious diets) experience bone loss during gravity-free time in space. Also, the standard American (animal-product based) diet is about 16-18% protein, compared to the 10-12% that humans need. High protein diets change blood Ph in such a way as to make you pee out calcium, putting you at risk for osteoporosis later in life -- that's why countries with the highest consumption of dairy also have the highest incidence of osteoporosis! Given the disinformation provided to folks so enthusiastically by the dairy industry's marketing guys, I'd like to see more discussion of these factors when folks talk about causes and management of osteoporosis. For further reading, check out: http://www.pcrm.org/health/prevmed/osteoporosis.html http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/osteoporosis_dairy.shtml Ok… but you left a bunch of important stuff out! We don’t ‘make’ calcium, but through diet & physical activity we determine whether it exists in our bones or in our bloodstream (for eventual excretion, in urine). Bone is metabolically active, like muscle: you can’t get buffed up by just popping protein pills, & you can’t get strong bones from just eating calcium. Weightbearing/ resistive exercise builds bone mass, and inactivity reduces it. That’s why astronauts (who have very well-managed nutritious diets) experience bone loss during gravity-free time in space. Also, the standard American (animal-product based) diet is about 16-18% protein, compared to the 10-12% that humans need. High protein diets change blood Ph in such a way as to make you pee out calcium, putting you at risk for osteoporosis later in life — that’s why countries with the highest consumption of dairy also have the highest incidence of osteoporosis!

Given the disinformation provided to folks so enthusiastically by the dairy industry’s marketing guys, I’d like to see more discussion of these factors when folks talk about causes and management of osteoporosis.

For further reading, check out:
http://www.pcrm.org/health/prevmed/osteoporosis.html
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/osteoporosis_dairy.shtml

]]> By: Radu Marculescu http://www.organicden.com/best-sources-of-calcium/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Radu Marculescu Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:30:51 +0000 http://www.organicden.com/?p=88#comment-45 Very good! Very good!

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