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Nutrition and Dietetics for Health Care

by Helen M. Barker

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Max Procaccini said: " So far so good as there is a lot of information in every chapter. The majority of information is new to me and what I don’t know I like to check from other sources. Milk and calcium, on page 29, is something that I know very well. Ms Barker wrote: “d So far so good as there is a lot of information in every chapter. The majority of information is new to me and what I don’t know I like to check from other sources. Milk and calcium, on page 29, is something that I know very well. Ms Barker wrote: “dietary factors that increase calcium absorption are the amino acids lysine and arginine, fat, vitamin D and lactose”. – “Milk has a high content of available calcium, is palatable, inexpensive and a staple food in many societies”. Calcium from milk is NOT absorbed by the human body. In fact, in a 12-year Harvard study of 78,000 women, those who drank milk three times a day actually broke more bones than women who rarely drank milk [Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Bone Health and Osteoporosis: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General; 2004].
What the author has failed to point out in her book is that milk acidifies the body pH which in turn triggers a biological correction. Calcium is an excellent acid neutralizer and the biggest storage of calcium in the body is in the bones. The very same calcium that our bones need to stay strong is utilized to neutralize the acidifying effect of milk. Once calcium is pulled out of the bones, it leaves the body via the urine, so that the surprising net result after this is an actual CALCIUM DEFICIT [source: Vivian Goldschmidt, MA].
Findings of epidemiologic and prospective studies have raised questions about the efficacy of the use of dairy products for the promotion of bone health. Studies have looked at the effects of dairy products and total dietary calcium on bone integrity in children and young adults to assess whether evidence supports (1) current recommended calcium intake levels and (2) the suggestion that dairy products are better for promoting bone integrity than other calcium-containing food sources or supplements. Scant evidence supports nutrition guidelines focused specifically on increasing milk or other dairy product intake for promoting child and adolescent bone mineralization. [Source: US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health; Pediatrics. 2005 Mar;115(3):736-43; Lanou AJ, Berkow SE, Barnard ND]. ...more "

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