Guest guest Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 " JoAnn Guest <angelprincessjo " <angelprincessjo Sat Jan 4, 2003 12:35 pm Osteoporosis: Low Calcium Intake? Osteoporosis--Low Calcium Intake? JoAnn Guest Apr 12, 2002 13:03 PDT Osteoporois and Calcium intake The Dairy Industry and milk processors invest hundreds of millions of dollars each year to guarantee that Americans will continue to drink milk and eat dairy products, investing their money to continually let Americans know that milk tastes good and the intake of milk and dairy products must be continued to insure good health. Milk mustaches are stylish. Drink milk and you're beautiful! Gorgeous models, actors, actresses, sports heroes, even President Clinton and Bob Dole have posed for milk advertisements. All have asserted by the milky white goo artificially applied to their upper lip that drinking milk is healthful and wholesome. Who would argue with such an overwhelming endorsement? Billboards spanning America ask the question, " Got milk? " Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive major league baseball games played. Ripken, holding a baseball bat, smiles from inside the front cover of a " GOT MILK " brochure proclaiming, " With all the skim milk I drink, my name might as well be Calcium Ripken, Jr. " Common knowledge of osteoporosis is based upon false assumptions. American women have been drinking an average of two pounds of milk or eating the equivalent milk in dairy products per day for their entire lives. Doctors recommend calcium intake for increasing and maintaining bone strength and bone density which they call bone mass. According to this regimen recommended by doctors and milk industry executives, women's bone mass would approach that of pre-historic dinosaurs. This line of reasoning should be equally extinct. Twenty-five million American women have osteoporosis. Drinking milk does not prevent osteoporosis. Milk contains calcium. Bones contain calcium too. When we are advised to add calcium to our diets we tend to drink milk or eat dairy foods. In order to absorb calcium, the body needs comparable amounts of another mineral element, magnesium. Milk and dairy products contain only small amounts of magnesium. Without the presence of magnesium, the body only absorbs 25 percent of the available dairy calcium content. The remainder of the calcium spells trouble. Without magnesium, excess calcium is utilized by the body in injurious ways. The body *uses* calcium to build the *mortar* on *arterial* walls which becomes *atherosclerotic plaque*. Excess calcium is converted by the kidneys into *painful stones* which grow in size like pearls in oysters, blocking our urinary tracts. Excess calcium contributes to arthritis; painful calcium buildup often is manifested as gout. The USDA has formulated a chart of recommended daily intakes of vitamins and minerals. The term that FDA uses is Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA). The RDA for calcium is 1500 mg. The RDA for magnesium is 750 mg. Society stresses the importance of calcium, but rarely magnesium. Yet, magnesium is vital to enzymatic activity. In addition to insuring proper absorption of calcium, magnesium is critical to proper neural and muscular function and to maintaining proper pH balance in the body. Magnesium, along with vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), helps to dissolve calcium phosphate stones which often accumulate from excesses of dairy intake. Good sources of magnesium include beans, green leafy vegetables like kale and collards, whole grains and orange juice. Non-dairy sources of calcium include green leafy vegetables, almonds, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, oats, beans, parsley, sesame seeds and tofu. Osteoporosis is NOT a problem that should be associated with lack of calcium intake. Osteoporosis results from *calcium loss*. The massive amounts of protein in milk result in a 50 percent loss of calcium in the urine. In other words, by doubling your protein intake there will be a loss of 1-1.5 percent in skeletal mass per year in postmenopausal women. The calcium contained in leafy green vegetables is more easily absorbed than the calcium in milk, and plant proteins do not result in calcium loss the same way as do animal proteins. If a postmenopausal woman loses 1-1.5 percent bone mass per year, what will be the effect after 20 years? When osteoporosis occurs levels of calcium (being excreted from the bones)in the blood are high. Milk only adds to these high levels of calcium which is excreted or used by the body to add to damaging atherosclerosis, gout, kidney stones, etc. Bone mass does not increase after age 35. This is a biological fact that is not in dispute by scientists. However, this fact is ignored by marketing geniuses in the milk industry who make certain that women this age and older are targeted consumers for milk and dairy products. At least one in four women will suffer from osteoporosis with fractures of the ribs, hip or forearm. In 1994, University of Texas researchers published results of an experiment indicating that supplemental calcium is ineffective in preventing bone loss. Within 5 years of the initial onset of menopause, there is an accelerated rate of loss of bone, particularly from the spine. During this period of time,the correct *estrogen/progesterone ratio* is most effective in preventing rapid bone density loss. visit: http://www.notmilk.com/dairy for more information regarding Calcium Intake. Human breast milk is Mother Nature's *PERFECT FORMULA* for baby humans. Even dairy industry scientists would not be foolish enough to debate this UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED FACT. In her wisdom, Mother Nature included 33 milligrams of calcium in every 100 grams, or 3 1/2-ounce portion of human breast milk. Adults do not drink human breast milk. At the end of this column is a list of calcium values in the foods we eat. .. You might be surprised to learn how many foods naturally contain an abundance of calcium. One must wonder why Asians traditionally did not get bone-crippling osteoporosis...that is, until they adopted the " American Diet, " a diet of milk and dairy products. Calcium Content of foods (per 100 gram portion) Human Breast Milk -33 mgs Almonds- 234 mgs Amaranth- 267 mgs Apricots(dried)-67 mgs Artichokes -51 mgs Beans(can: pinto, black)- 135 mgs Beet greens (cooked)- 99 mgs Buckwheat - 114 mgs Swiss Chard (raw)-88 mgs Chickpeas (Garbanzos)-150 mgs Collards (raw leaves)-250 mgs Cress (raw)-81 mgs Dandelion greens- 187 mgs Figs (dried)- 126 mgs Filberts (Hazelnuts)-209 mgs Kale (raw leaves)-249 mgs Kale (cooked leaves)-187 mgs Lettuce (dark green)-68 mgs Molasses (dark)- 684 mgs Mustard Greens (raw)-183 mgs Okra - 92 mgs Olives - 61 mgs Parsley - 203 mgs Pistachio nuts - 131 mgs Raisins - 40 mgs Rhubard (cooked) -62 mgs Sesame Seeds-1160 mgs Tofu (organic)-128 mgs Spinach (raw)-93 mgs sunflower seeds - 120 mgs Turnip Greens (raw)-246 mgs Water Cress-151 mgs JoAnn Guest jogu- Friendsforhea- http://www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/AIM.html http://www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/classic_tan.html theaimcompanies " Health is not a Medical Issue " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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