Gardening for Osteoporosis ??

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Synchronicity strikes again. Remember my little rant the other day on the

study Penny wrote about -- gardening is good exercise?

 

While I was playing Devil's Advocate a bit on that particular study, I

moreso used it as a jumping off point for some other basically

*anti-science* thoughts of mine.

 

Anyway, tonight I'm looking at my new One Spirit Book Club catalog and was

somewhat mindlessly reading a blurb on a new book called " The Bone Density

Diet. "

 

Lookee here:

" Full of surprising information (time in the sun is good for the skeleton)

.. . . . "

 

Of course! Vitamin D in it's most natural and pure state. (I still maintain

gardening isn't all that much exercise, certainly not on a daily or even

real regular basis. <g> I turned a big ole compost pile today and am just

exhausted -- but happily won't be doing THAT for another month or so.)

 

But it may not be JUST the Vitamin D. Not that well understood in the

medical field (or so I believe) is that sunlight stimulates the pineal

gland, in the center of the head behind the brow chakra. I don't know all

that much about the pineal gland (and trust that modern science doesn't

either), but I think it's called the Master Gland -- and all the glands,

the endocrine system -- affect our hormones. This gland, btw, is what

doesn't get enough stimulation (sunlight) during winter for those who

suffer from S.A.D. (I get a mild case of that these days myself.) Getting

OUT in the sun during the winter and actually letting it fall on your

forehead helps, btw.

 

Somewhere else I was reading just the other day that the pineal gland

affects seratonin levels. Makes sense.

 

Patricia