Osteoporosis
Posted By: Suzanne
Osteoporosis - 10/01/10 01:08 AM
Osteoporosis, (Bone Loss)
Protein from Meat and Bone Loss
Postmenopausal women who lose excess weight through a high-protein diet are more likely to also experience bone loss if they get most of their protein from meat rather than other sources. This according to a July 2010 study by researchers at Purdue University. Good nonmeat sources of protein include beans, low fat dairy products, and tofu. --Consumer Reports on Health, October 2010.
Comment: And don't forget nuts.
Suzanne
Posted By: Suzanne
Re: Osteoporosis - 10/01/10 01:38 AM
Osteoporosis
North America has an extremely high rate of this progressive bone-thinning disease which affects at least 25 million--80% of them women. Brittle, chalky bones can cause chronic back pain, fractured hips, spines and limbs and a host of other problems. Bone loss in the jaws and tooth sockets (pyorrhea) is especially prevalent, causing loose teeth and receding gums--a major cause of tooth loss in adults. What causes this painful, disabling, frequently occurring, socially costly metabolic disease? A dietary calcium deficiency comes to mind first, however there is more to the story than this.
* Medical scientists have shown that the typical American high meat diet actually flushes calcium right out of the body. An article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, points out that it has been known for over 70 years that a high protein meat diet increases the amount of urinary calcium.
* Bogart, Brigts and Calloway, writing in Nutrition and Physical Fitness, explain that when too much meat and other high protein foods are eaten, sulfuric, phosphoric and other acids are produced. The body seeks to neutralize these excess acids by drawing on the alkali reserves--calcium and other alkaline or base-forming elements of the body. These also include magnesium, zinc, boron and other minerals involved in the health of the bones and teeth.
* The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, March 1983 reported the results of the largest study on bone density in the U.S. Researchers at Michigan State and other major universities found that by the age of 65:
Male vegetarians had an average measurable bone loss of 3%.
Male meat-eaters had an average measurable bone loss of 7%.
Female vegetarians had an average measurable bone loss of 18%.
Female meat-eaters had an average measurable bone loss of 35%
* These and similar findings were confirmed and reaffirmed in a report from the Third International Congress on Vegetarian Nuitrition, March 1997, held at Loma Linda University. Researchers pointed out that the lower the dietary protein (especially animal protein) and the lower the salt intake, the less dietary correction and the more efficient the calcium in the diet becomes. The reason being that when a low-protein (vegetarian) diet, low salt diet is utilized less calcium is lost in the urine compared to the loss on a high-meat, high salt diet. The excess sulfur amino acids in animal protein compromise calcium balance. For each hamburger eaten, approximately 23 milligrams of calcium are lost in the urine. --The Journal of Health and Healing, Vol. 20. No. 2, 1997.
* More confirmation is found in a report published in the Lancet, by several medical scientists, commenting on work sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Harvard University. They called the association of meat-based diets with the increasing incidence of osteoporosis "inescapable." The more protein you use, the more calcium you lose and osteoporosis is the sure result.
(con't in next posting...
Suzanne
Posted By: Suzanne
Re: Osteoporosis - 10/01/10 01:45 AM
Osteoporosis, con't.
OTHER RISK FACTORS
Other risk factors join the high meat diet in causing a deterioration of the bones and teeth.
* Phosphates and other acids in soft drinks rob the bones of calcium. --The National Osteoporosis Foundation, Wash. D.C.
* Excess coffee increases calcium loss. Even 1 or 2 cups daily can contribute to osteoporosis. --Let's Live, Novenber 1992, p. 12.
* A lack of exercise leads to thinner bones. --Prevention, August 1986.
* Alcohol, cigarettes and many other drugs have a similar effect. --Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 2nd edition.
PROTECTIVE FACTORS
* A correct vegetarian diet with emphasis on adequate calcium and other minerals is most important in guarding against this crippler. Researchers using double isotope analysis demonstrated that calcium availability in kale and select green vegetables are the number one natural source of top-grade calcium. (Observe the strong, massive bones and muscles of the grass and plant eating elephant, rhino, hippo, buffalo, horse and cow--no lack of protein, calcium or other minerals here!) Olther plant-based sources include fortified soy milk, broccoli, dried figs, almonds, whole grains, legumes, blackstrap molasses, seeds and nuts.
* Other critical nuitrients that build and preserve bone health include magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, zinc, manganese, boron, copper and vitamin D ( the sunshine vitamin). Vitamins C, E, and K also play vital roles in battling osteopososis. Calcium retention in the bones is also favored by adequate weight-bearing exercise such as brisk walking.
Suzanne
Posted By: kland
Re: Osteoporosis - 10/01/10 04:19 PM
North America has an extremely high rate of this progressive bone-thinning disease
And where is the most milk drunk? Maybe milk is hurting (high protein) and sure doesn't appear to be helping.
Posted By: Suzanne
Re: Osteoporosis - 06/03/11 02:26 AM
Go Green for Bone Health
Vegetables are a good source of calcium, particularly for those who do not consume much milk. Korean scientists analyzed the diets of postmenopausal women and determined that "high dietary intake of calcium, especially plant calcium, reduces the risk of osteoporosis and increases bone mineral density. Vegetables may be an important source of calcium and may also provide vitamins and minerals that exert additional benefical effects on the bone." The body does not produce calcium. The mineral is abundant in dark green veggies, including kale and broccoli. --Taste for Life, May 2011.
Suzanne
Posted By: Green Cochoa
Re: Osteoporosis - 06/05/11 03:00 AM
Maybe I'm a bit late to the discussion, but we Adventists should not be ignorant of one of the major contributing factors to osteoporosis. Mrs. White told us about it.
"This is the effect of calomel. It torments the system as long as there is a particle left in it. It ever lives, not losing its properties by its long stay in the living system. It inflames the joints, and often sends rottenness into the bones. It frequently manifests itself in tumors, ulcers, and cancers, years after it has been introduced into the system." {2SM 449.3}
So what is this "calomel?" Here is its definition, from Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
CALOMEL, n. A preparation of mercury, much used in medicine. It is called the submuriate or protochloride of mercury, and is prepared in various ways, by sublimation or precipitation, and also in the dry way. The following are the directions given in the last London Pharmacopoeia. Take of muriated quicksilver one pound, and of purified quicksilver, nine ounces; rub them together till the globules disappear; then sublime, and repeat the sublimation twice more successively.
Blessings,
Green Cochoa.
Posted By: Harold Fair
Re: Osteoporosis - 06/06/11 08:42 PM
A few years ago I was watching Lifestyle Magazine. One of our doctors, I don't remember who, was asking a representative of the dairy industry about Osteoporosis. The doc commented that our country had the highest consumption of dairy products and also the highest incidence of osteoporosis. He ask the rep. why.
The rep said, "It is obvious that the American women aren't drinking enough milk." So help me, that is what he said.
Posted By: kland
Re: Osteoporosis - 06/07/11 05:37 PM
Indicating that women of other countries are drinking enough milk which seems to contradict the idea that America consumes the most, leaving: only men consume more milk? Kind of reminds you of those who say, that little bit of mercury won't hurt you (regarding vaccinations and fluorescent lights) while at the same time worrying about coal plants giving off mercury.
Posted By: Harold Fair
Re: Osteoporosis - 06/07/11 10:44 PM
>>Indicating that women of other countries are drinking enough milk <<
No. That was one of the points the Adventist doctor made. Asian women wern't drinking ANY milk and had NO osteoporosis.
(My experiment with the gmo corn has started. I finally found a sorce of both types. An Amish and a regular farmer. I know them both well. The regular farmer, Larry, uses "Roundup Ready". The Amish, Simon, uses Golden Bantom, a self polinating corn they have used for years.)
Posted By: kland
Re: Osteoporosis - 06/13/11 06:21 PM
Sorry, but that was what I was trying to say, that women who aren't drinking, or at least drinking much less milk,
are drinking enough.
In other words, the rep wasn't making sense and that's what you said.
Glad to hear you have the materials for the experiment. Looking forward to hear the results. I've just read an advertisement about GMO corn making chickens sick. Something about that ad didn't make me want to believe they tested it, though.
Posted By: Harold Fair
Re: Osteoporosis - 06/17/11 04:23 AM
Glad to hear you have the materials for the experiment. Looking forward to hear the results. I've just read an advertisement about GMO corn making chickens sick. Something about that ad didn't make me want to believe they tested it, though.
I guess I will have to try again. The corn I got from the Amish seems to be contaminated. The birds make no distinction in which pile they eat from, and I know the corn from the other farmer is GM. Even the crows or rabbits don't care witch pile they eat from.
Posted By: Green Cochoa
Re: Osteoporosis - 06/17/11 04:59 AM
Glad to hear you have the materials for the experiment. Looking forward to hear the results. I've just read an advertisement about GMO corn making chickens sick. Something about that ad didn't make me want to believe they tested it, though.
I guess I will have to try again. The corn I got from the Amish seems to be contaminated. The birds make no distinction in which pile they eat from, and I know the corn from the other farmer is GM. Even the crows or rabbits don't care witch pile they eat from.
I'm not surprised. Birds do not smell well at all (with the exception of some vultures), and the appearance of the corn is likely the same. So what is left? Taste. I'm not sure there would be much difference in the flavor--sufficient, that is, for the birds to avoid it. Furthermore, taste is rather limited for birds too.
Here's part of an article I found online.
Most birds have little use for the sense of smell. The odors of food, prey, enemies or mates quickly disperse in the wind. Birds possess olfactory glands, but they're not well developed in most species, including the songbirds in our backyards.
The same is true for taste, which is related to smell. While humans have 9,000 taste buds, songbirds have fewer than 50.
That means the birds we feed around our homes must locate their food by sight or touch, two senses that are highly developed in birds.
A Taste Test
Anyone who has used cayenne pepper in birdseed to discourage squirrels knows that birds will eat the seeds without hesitation. Why? Because birds don't detect the strong scent and taste of the pepper.
However, squirrels, like all mammals, have well-developed senses of smell and taste and react to the pepper as we would—with distaste.
Further evidence that birds find food by sight is an experiment I conducted with six wild birdseed mixes, each having a unique formula and a different appearance.
I presented the six mixes in two kinds of feeders, six tube feeders and six tray feeders. At the end of each day, I weighed and measured the uneaten seeds.
One mix was a clear winner, but what amazed me was watching the birds go right to the feeders containing the winning mix, even though I frequently rotated them. Obviously, they recognized the favored mix by its appearance.
Why they preferred this specific mix, however, is somewhat of a mystery. Since instinct plays a large role in their behavior, one possible explanation is the birds relied on their genetic programming to determine what seed was best for them. After all, birds are "built" to eat certain types of foods.
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Common Scents
While most birds seem to lack much power of smell, there are some groups of birds that can locate food using their olfactory glands.
Extensive research into this subject has shown that vultures, seabirds, kiwis and parrots have well-developed olfactory glands, giving them some sense of smell and taste.
A biologist once watched as vultures found hidden meat by detecting its odor. Some seabirds can smell fish oils from a distance and kiwis in New Zealand are able to sniff out earthworms underground. But these are exceptions in the bird world.
Blessings,
Green Cochoa.
Posted By: Harold Fair
Re: Osteoporosis - 06/17/11 02:40 PM
'"Anyone who has used cayenne pepper in birdseed to discourage squirrels knows that birds will eat the seeds without hesitation. Why? Because birds don't detect the strong scent and taste of the pepper.""
I didn't know that about the pepper. I did notice that when the wife cooks too much of our own sweet corn and throws the left over out to the birds that they get to it immediately.
( I am not real swift on back quoting on this)
Posted By: kland
Re: Osteoporosis - 06/17/11 05:26 PM
Anyone who has used cayenne pepper in birdseed to discourage squirrels knows that birds will eat the seeds without hesitation. Why? Because birds don't detect the strong scent and taste of the pepper.
From what I've read, it doesn't have to do with not being able to taste the pepper, but has to do with how the pepper works. If you've ever messed with hot peppers, try washing your hands good and then accidentally touching around your eyes or other sensitive areas. Does one conclude they can taste with their skin? What I read was that it's the way the active compound works in peppers. It affects mammals and not birds. This enables the birds to spread the seeds and not mammals. The seeds aren't digested in birds.
Extensive research into this subject has shown that vultures, seabirds, kiwis and parrots have well-developed olfactory glands, giving them some sense of smell and taste.
So a great test would be to give them peppers and see if it affects them. I would think not since they are not mammals. That's why it's a good suggestion to add pepper in bird seed to keep the varmints from eating it.
Posted By: Suzanne
Re: Osteoporosis - 07/08/11 02:12 AM
Tomato Juice and Bone Health
A daily dose of tomato juice--rich in the antioxidant lycopene--can help protect against osteoporosis, the disease that causes bones to become brittle and fracture easily, according to University of Toronto researchers.
A study of 60 postmenopausal women found that those who drank 2 glasses of tomato juice a day--containing at least 30 mg of lycopene--showed a significant decrease in the breakdown of bone cell after 4 months.
"Our study suggests that lycopene can be used as a natural alternative supplement for improving bone health." according to Dr. Leticia Rao.
Suzanne
Posted By: Suzanne
Re: Osteoporosis - 09/22/11 03:37 AM
Recipe for Protecting Bones
A Florida State University researcher has found a simple way to improve bone health--eating prunes!
In his study, a group of postmenopausal women were instructed to eat 10 dried prunes a day for a 12-month period--a second group was given a comparable amount of dried apples.
The prune eaters had significantly higher bone mineral density in the spine and ulna (arm bone).
"I have tested numerous fruits, including figs, dates, strawberries and raisins, and none of them come anywhere close to having the effect on bone dnesity that dried plums has," says professor Bahram Arjmandi. He encourages people to take action before osteoporosis strikes." "People could start eating 2 to 3 dried plums per day and increase gradually to perhaps 6 to 10 a day."
Suzanne
Comment: Remember that each fruit has its own nutritional profile and we would do well to include a wide variety in our diet.
SS
Posted By: Suzanne
Re: Osteoporosis - 07/09/12 07:42 PM
Why Most Calcium Supplements Are Useles for Osteoporosis
For years, North American women have been taking calcium supplements for stronger bones. Yet they continue to get osteoporosis in record numbers. Why? Because taking supplements is not enough. You also need to engage in weight-bearing exercise.
However you do not have to lift heavy weights or do torturous aerobic workouts. Researchers studying the effect of different activities have found that one of the best bone-building activities is gardening! Indeed, gardening was more effective than almost all the other activities studied. --Bottom Line Health, Spring 2012.
Suzanne
Posted By: geoffm
Re: Osteoporosis - 07/13/12 02:44 PM
"Exercise in the open air should be prescribed as a life giving necessity, and for such, there is nothing better than the tilling of the soil." Ministry of Healing. So what's new?
Posted By: Suzanne
Re: Osteoporosis - 10/30/13 03:10 AM
Cows have strong bones, so why don't we?
by Craig Stellpflug
(NaturalNews) Ever heard of a cow needing the bone drug Fosomax? How do cows get such strong bones? From eating lots of plants of course. Cows' milk is for a growing baby calf, but before the calf is grown, it is weaned from milk and moves on to eating grass. Big Ag, Big Pharma and their well-paid friend - the media, would have you think that milk and drugs are required for strong bones. American women consume an average of two pounds of milk and dairy products per day and yet some 30 million women have osteoporosis. Milk and dairy products in excess actually accelerate bone loss and the bone drugs are just causing brittle bones, more fractures and cancer.
Silent bone thieves
The main reasons we have weak bones is that cows' milk and pharmaceutical drugs (including over-the-counter drugs) have an acidifying effect on the body. When the body is acidic, it automatically pulls calcium out of the bones to neutralize acids. Cows' milk has three times more protein than human milk but when drinking cows' milk, a large amount of protein is converted into acids which actually leach more calcium from the bones than was in the milk in the first place. Pasteurize milk and 50 percent of the calcium is not even absorbed.
You can have the densest bones in the region and they can snap like dry twigs if there is no bone quality. Aside from acidifying the body, bone meds may improve bone density, but not bone quality. Long-term use of bone meds like Actonel, Boniva, Fosamax and Reclast have been linked to femur fractures after four years. The drug Infuse for bone growth causes cancer risk (including pancreatic) to shoot up by more than 250 percent in one year and 500 percent by three years.
With all the "cutting edge" osteo meds out there, osteoporosis numbers should be plummeting - instead they are rising...
Let's assume we need to fix our bone problems
If we just assume that we need to be concerned about bone health and treat our bones naturally, there would be no need for bone scans and osteo meds. It is our diet and lifestyle that has weakened the core structure of our bodies. There are many things that are critical to bone health - and drugs are not one of them.
In order to have and maintain healthy bones, we should get plenty of good water, seeds, nuts, leafy greens, beans, fruits and veggies in our diets. Even then, we still need weight-bearing exercise and plenty of raw sunshine for our bone health.
The mineral zinc has been shown to increase osteoblast (bone-building) activity, which is how the body manufactures bone. Zinc also inhibits the osteoclast (tearing down) process responsible for bone reabsorption and catabolism. According to the latest research, taking supplemental zinc directly improves bone mass for osteoporosis prevention. Make sure that the zinc you take internally is not zinc oxide.
Vitamin K works with fat-soluble nutrients to protect the brain from arterial calcification that leads to stroke and/or cognitive decline. Vitamin K helps prevent calcium deposits in arterial walls while allowing the body use of calcium for bone health.
Olive leaf extract can help lower the risk of developing osteoporosis. Studies found that it helps support bone strength and balance inflammatory responses.
Vitamin D studies show that it can support hip joint strength and integrity in elderly women by 69 percent while also improving muscle strength.
Bottom line
Bottom line, it is your health and your bones and a little common sense goes a long ways. If you are concerned about your bone health, avoid the pharmaceutical solutions that aren't working and do the natural thing.
Sources for this article:
http://jcs.biologists.org/content/113/3/377.full.pdf
http://notmilk.com/
http://rense.com/general63/milkmyth.htm
http://www.strongbones.org/
Suzanne