Food for Your Bones!
Happy weekend to you all! My oldest stepdaughter is in town this weekend (& today) without the crazy grandkids so we are going to be seeing her & we will be busy. So, my post for today is an article about bone health, the food needed & some interesting statistics. I am posting a bit of the article below & read the full article here: Food For Your Bones. It also has food you can eat to help bone health. AND YOU KNOW ME, loving the weights. I can't help throwing in how important resistance training is for bone health, not to mention that the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn. I know, yadda yadda yadda!!!!"Despite our society’s seemingly obsessive focus on calcium intake, studies repeatedly show that the cultures with the highest dairy consumption, and thus the highest calcium intake, exhibit the greatest incidence of osteoporotic fracture. This observation has led to the identification of a mysterious “international calcium paradox.” How is it that in the U.S. 1,000 to 1,500 mgs or more of calcium daily are considered necessary for maintaining bone health, while many other populations maintain strong bones with a calcium intake of 400 mg or less?
It turns out that calcium intake is only part of the equation, and that an appropriate dietary reference intake (DRI) for a given population depends on coexisting dietary, lifestyle and environmental factors. These include the balance between the total intake of other nutrients and the consumption of potentially bone-damaging substances such as excess salt, protein, alcohol, tobacco, fat, processed foods and sugar. The use of certain bone-depleting medications, the lack of sunlight, the presence of environmental toxins and even stress have deleterious effects on bones.
The most overlooked, however, and perhaps the most important of all the culturally created bone-depleting factors is known as “diet-induced chronic, low-grade metabolic acidosis.” In other words, our nutrient-deficient and imbalanced diet produces an excess of acids in the body that damages and, in effect, “eats away” our bones."
Caught your interest yet? It certainly caught mine!!! The whole article is quite interesting to read. What do you think? Any personal experience of changing your food & having better results from it? As I have said before, doctors are finding gals in their 20's now with signs of osteoporosis!!!! Not good!
Here is to your good health!!!
I agree that prevention of calcium loss is much more important than the exaggerated need for adding calcium to our diets.
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I just added your site to my blog, love your material. Starting to the gym Monday, new personal trainer and I love weight lifting too. This bone article and food is super important to me, thanks for posting it while you're busy with the family. You must be having terrific weather down there, send some up my way here in Oregon please. I, for one, will be checking in here often, you're like having a personal trainer, for free. I appreciate your time and expertise Jody, hope I can pay you back some other way one day. Linda
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Dr. J. Thx for visiting! I read your blog but just posted my first comment the other day. Don't know why it took me so long. You have great stuff there!
Linda, thx too for visiting! Thx for your comments too! I have found such great blogs out there to read so I appreciate you reading mine too! Sometimes I share articles I read & other times I write from experience of my own. I know not everyone has time to read some of these articles so I like to share them.
Well, we have cloudy weather this weekend but not too hot so that is fine with me!!!
Hey, good luck with your new trainer! I bet that will prove for some new challenges!
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