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The Calcium Factor: Web Site: "cureamerica.net" "If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow." (Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research) * Did you know that the body fluids, such as blood, spinal and saliva, of the healthy are alkaline (high pH), whereas the body fluids of the sick are acidic (low pH)? * Did you know that most degenerative disease attributed to aging, such as cancer, osteoporosis, and heart disease, and other diseases such as allergy, kidney stones and gallstones have all been scientifically linked to mineral deficiencies that result in your body fluids, including your saliva, becoming more acidic? * Did you know that scientists have found that cancer thrives in an acidic medium, but cannot survive in an alkaline medium? * Did you know that by spitting on a penny’s worth of pH paper you can measure your level of acidity and health? * Did you know that with vitamin and mineral supplements, you can lower the acidity of your body fluids and become healthy? * Did you know that Benjamin Rush, the only medical doctor to sign the American Constitution, fearing that in time, medicine would organise into an "undercover dictatorship" that would suppress both competition and new medical advances, tried in vain to have "medical freedom" enshrined in the Constitution? Challenge: To those concerned by the questions? If the answer to any or all of these questions is "no", then you owe it to yourself to read The Calcium Factor, not only for the sake of your own health, but for the sake of your family and friends. ISBN 0-9633703-3-2 $17.95
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"One of the most fundamental and also one of the saddest facts in human
life is well brought out in a French proverb which, freely translated, means:
'If youth had the knowledge, and age the power of doing,"' said Mr. Tesla
"our condition of body and mind in old age is merely a certificate of how
we have spent our youth. The secret of my own strength and vitality today is
that in my youth I led what you might call a virtuous life.
Paul Bragg Nature cure guru Paul Bragg wrote about acidity in his books e.g., The Miracle of Fasting. He said that every acid attack had a bad long-term effect on the body, and they were cumulative. He used to eat mostly vegetables because of their alkalising effect. He lives to 96 and died during a water skiing accident. Autopsy showed he had the arteries of an 18-year old.
http://www.notmilk.com/acidblood.html Copyright(C) 1998-2002 The Dairy Education BoardBy Robert Cohen Executive Director Acidic Blood: Heart & Bone DiseaseFood proteins are broken down by the human body into their building blocks, amino acids. The amino acids are then used to build new proteins. Proteins consist of 28 amino acids. We manufacture 19 amino acids in our livers. Nine essential amino acids must be obtained from the foods we eat. Many people believe that animal and plant proteins are exactly the same. That is not true. One of those "essential" amino acids is methionine. One needs methionine for many human metabolic functions including digestion, detoxification of heavy metals, and muscle metabolism. However, an excess of methionine can be toxic and create that acid condition in your blood. The center atom of methionine is sulfur. That's the problem. Eat foods containing too much methionine, and your blood will become acidic. The sulfur converts to sulfates and weak forms of sulfuric acid. In order to neutralize the acid, in its wisdom, the body leaches calcium from bones. "Dietary protein increases production of acid in the blood which can be neutralized by calcium mobilized from the skeleton." {American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1995; 61,4} Animal proteins contain more methionine than plant proteins. Let's compare cow's milk to soymilk:
Now, let's compare 100 gram portions of tofu to meat: (All of the meat products are lean and without skin)
Why do nations with the highest rates of bone disease also have the highest milk consumption rates? The highest rates of osteoporosis are to be found in Denmark, Holland, Norway, and Sweden. We are told to consume 1000 milligrams per day of calcium. Inuit Eskimos consume 3500 milligrams of calcium each day, and by age 40 are crippled.
THE KEY TO OSTEOPOROSIS
WHY DOES CALCIUM LEAVE BONES? A 1994 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Remer T, Am J Clin Nutr 1994;59:1356-61) found that animal proteins cause calcium to be leached from the bones and excreted in the urine.
MORE SUPPORTING EVIDENCE:
Can it get worse? Absolutely. The Framingham Heart Study is the largest and most exciting heart study in the history of mankind. Some of the highlights of this exhaustive 50 year study: In 1960, Cigarette smoking was found to increase the risk of heart disease. In 1970, high blood pressure was found to increase the risk of stroke. During the 1980's, high levels of HDL cholesterol were found to reduce risk of death from heart disease. In the 1990's, homocysteines were identified as key factors in heart attack deaths. Homocysteines are normal breakdown products of METHIONINE and are believed to exert a number of toxic effects in the body. I recently spoke with the senior investigator of the Framingham heart study, William Castelli, M.D. (E-mail: william_castelli@mwmc.com ) Dr. Castelli has suggested that an elevated homocysteine level is a risk factor for heart disease. The first evidence of this was published in the American Journal of Cardiology (Glueck, 1995;75:132Â6).
Two recent publications resulting from Framingham data indicate a positive correlation between cardiovascular
disease mortality and blood serum levels of homocysteine.
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/092098.html 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.
Calcium content of foods (per 100-gram portion)
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