Could diet attack bones? It's a beef about meat

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Could diet attack bones? It's a beef about meat

By Douglas Fox

U.S. News

10/30/00

 

Few crises of old age are as widely feared as a broken hip. A calcium-poor diet,

lack of exercise, and, in older women, loss of estrogen can all contribute to

osteoporosis, which weakens bones. But those factors don't fully explain the

350,000 hip fractures each year in the United States, researchers say. They

suspect a surprising new culprit: Americans may be washing away their bones in a

tide of acid, made as their bodies metabolize protein-rich foods like meat and

cheese.

 

More: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/001030/nycu/boneloss.htm

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I'm glad you posted this Anji! I saw it on my news reader site this morning,

but I erroneously assumed the worst about it and

didn't bother to read it! I know, I know... " never assume " . :-)

 

This reminds me of my mother's experience. By the time she was in her mid

sixties, she was so bent over with osteo, she was reduced

to creeping around her house leaning heavily on a walker. The pain got so bad

that she couldn't lie down to sleep, and was

beginning to fall apart mentally from sleep and dream deprivation. When I found

out about this, I suggested that she fast to

(hopefully) get the pain under control, which she did. That was a very big deal

to her as, she said, she had never missed a meal

before in her entire life! Anyway, having endured almost 2 weeks of having to

sit up all night, after only 1 day of fasting, she

was able to lie down comfortably to sleep.

 

I was over-joyed at the vigour with which her body responded to the

intervention! And I was even more glad when she agreed to go

further and embrace a low-fat vegan diet focused heavily on fruits and

vegetables, avoiding gluten. She ate that way consistently

for about a year. Her health, colour and energy began to improve, and she quite

quickly got to the point of being able to leave her

house and walk normally, even to carry light burdens. Because she was in an

Osteoporosis Observation program, we found out that her

bone mass was increasing. After a year of showing consistent bone mass

increase, she effectively no longer had osteoporosis. She

was still somewhat deformed, but her bones had regained so much mass, the

program could no do what they wanted with her: to observe

the progress of bone mass loss, so they kicked her off.

 

I was disgusted by the apparent narrowness of their focus. There they had a

prime opportunity to find out something useful about

how to reverse osteo, but they responded to it by rejecting it. It was pretty

frustrating for me, as I'm sure you can imagine.

 

Sadly, she really liked being on that program and really wanted to stay on it.

She went back to her old habits of meat, dairy,

wheat and sugar, and as a result began to again lose bone mass. Sigh.

 

Anyway, the neat thing about it is that her low-fat, gluten-free vegan year had

given her body such a boost, it took 10 more years

before her body returned to the debilitated condition she had been in before she

began to follow the vegan, bone-building diet.

 

Guess that's all for now. Wishing you all health, happiness and prosperity...

 

Deborah

 

 

 

 

Could diet attack bones? It's a beef about meat

By Douglas Fox

U.S. News

10/30/00

 

Few crises of old age are as widely feared as a broken hip. A calcium-poor diet,

lack of exercise, and, in older women, loss of

estrogen can all contribute to osteoporosis, which weakens bones. But those

factors don't fully explain the 350,000 hip fractures

each year in the United States, researchers say. They suspect a surprising new

culprit: Americans may be washing away their bones in

a tide of acid, made as their bodies metabolize protein-rich foods like meat and

cheese.

 

More: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/001030/nycu/boneloss.htm

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