2018 Wellness Expo

2018 Wellness Expo LINCOLN DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Page 15 in calcium in urine. The calcium is leached from our bones to help keep our pH balanced from too much meat in our American diet. Harvard University followed 80,000 women for twelve years and found that animal protein was directly associated with an increased risk of forearm fracture and no association could be concluded from plant proteins. First list: meat, fish, dairy, poultry and eggs almost universally have high levels of sulfur – containing amino acids ( negative charged ion), which are metabolized by the body into sulfuric acid. The more sulfuric acid in the body, the more calcium your body needs to neutralize it. After awhile the bone starts to lose out on this contest….osteoporosis. Notice on the list the foods that cause the body to get acidic! Most of these foods are very popular in the American diet. Get the point? It is not the lack of calcium, it is the abuse in our diet of acid building foods. One of the more popular foods is dairy and meats. As a nation we are told “Got Milk?” Seriously, we don’t have a meat/protein or dairy shortage in this country. In the book, the China Study researcher T. Colin Campbell discovered that rural Chinese consume practically no dairy products – and as result take in about half the calcium compared to Americans – osteoporosis among these populations is practically nonexistent. That’s because plant eaters get all the calcium they need from plant sources. And not only do plants offer plenty of calcium, they offer better calcium: the calcium in plants is absorbed twice as well as the calcium from milk. What we have in the least is a pitiful attempt of keeping our diet balanced. I prefer fresh because sometimes with cooking we can weaken or destroy some of the nutrients in our veggies and fruits. Here’s my batting order in food preparation - fresh, steamed, frozen (a popular question when I publicly speak) and stir fry. Great sources of calcium are the dark leafy vegetables, beans and legumes, berries, cauliflower and broccoli. [Google veggies/ fruits and calcium values.] CONTINUED →