"So, what is one to do? Well, first reread the chapter on diet, which lays out the ground rules for helping your body build bone. Minimizing the intake of animal foods (to less than 3 ounces a day) and the elimination (or at least minimization) of refined grains and sugars are both helpful. At that point, the amount of highly absorbable calcium that you get in your diet (from foods such as romaine lettuce, broccoli, sesame seeds, and bok choy) will be more than adequate for most people to build strong bones.
Think about cows for a moment. How do cows grow such large, strong bones considering that they don’t drink milk and they don’t take calcium supplements? They eat grass -- low in calcium, but high in magnesium (magnesium is the basis of chlorophyll in plants). Consider the fact that the traditional Eskimo diet contains over 2,000 mg of calcium a day, but because their diet is so acidic (virtually 100 percent of the food is from animal sources), it produces the highest hip fracture rate in the world. The bottom line is that calcium supplementation will not save you from the consequences of a high-acid-forming diet. And if you absolutely can’t change to a more alkaline diet, then taking supplemental calcium (not milk) to buffer the excess acid probably makes sense. It won’t repair any damage, but it will protect against some of the destruction you are inflicting on yourself."
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Think about cows for a moment. How do cows grow such large, strong bones considering that they don’t drink milk and they don’t take calcium supplements? They eat grass -- low in calcium, but high in magnesium (magnesium is the basis of chlorophyll in plants). Consider the fact that the traditional Eskimo diet contains over 2,000 mg of calcium a day, but because their diet is so acidic (virtually 100 percent of the food is from animal sources), it produces the highest hip fracture rate in the world. The bottom line is that calcium supplementation will not save you from the consequences of a high-acid-forming diet. And if you absolutely can’t change to a more alkaline diet, then taking supplemental calcium (not milk) to buffer the excess acid probably makes sense. It won’t repair any damage, but it will protect against some of the destruction you are inflicting on yourself."
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