 To Order, Click Link Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want - Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible To Order, Click Link-> Jamie's 30-minute Meals I have osteoporosis and as a result, I went straight to a bone health specialist, dietician, for advice. I now understand a lot more about nutrition and understand about the pH balance of foods and its effects on the absorption of minerals into our bodies and I have since achieved my own bone health nutrition qualifications. In my opinion the food plan that Michelle Bridges, Crunch Time cookbook and 12 Week Body transformation, suggests, is a wonderful balance between the ideal healthy diet and one that is not too fanatical or extreme. I am finding working with an on line trainer, to be one of the best fat burners, I have had, in a long whileJ and I am loving that the nutritional guidance and the exercise recommended by the 12WBT program is all in keeping with good bone health information. It is interesting that in the US where women have about 1200 mg of calcium in their diet but eat a lot of animal products 50% of them by my age have osteoporosis. In cultures where the calcium in the diet is only 600 mg a day and food is more plant based, with some animal product but not a lot, there is very little osteoporosis in the population. Osteoporosis is sometimes, called the ‘slimmers disease’. All those high animal protein, low carbohydrate diets are raising the PH in our bodies and that forces the calcium we consume to be used mostly to try to maintain the correct pH balance in our blood and cells, and there just is not enough over to do the work of maintaining bone density. In fact, if we eat too many acid forming foods and drinks we actually leach calcium from our bones, You do not have to go to the extreme of being a total vegan to have a balanced pH, all things in moderation. The western diet had gone well past moderation, just Google the incidence of osteoporosis and you will see this. Then Google the relationship of pH balance in your diet and osteoporosis and you will see that no amount of popping vitamins and minerals will help if you do not eat a balanced diet of all food groups without an excess of one type of food. The average Western diet is not balanced it is animal products at the expense of non-refined carbohydrates. Sorry for the waffle, but finding out I had a degree in nutrition and had never, been taught, a thing about pH and I ate what I thought was a healthy diet yet developed a deficiency disease, came as a whammy shock to me. I just feel passionately about this. With my recent bone health knowledge, I believe Michelle Bridges has designed a balanced diet for her clients or I would not be using her 12WBT program. I have made a lifetime study of nutrition, though still not an expert. I believe the information about a balanced diet, should be being taught loud and clear to everyone. It is not breast cancer or heart disease women should be fearing the most it is the one that gets most of us women and it’s the one most of us neglect protecting ourselves from, or think that taking a bit of calcium is all we have to do. If you don’t learn early enough, how to prevent it, osteoporosis is not going to give you the figure you want, and can result in slow painful degeneration and death from the non recovery from the broken hip, what finally ‘gets’, most women and those who suffer this earliest and worst are the ‘dieters’, who lose weight following the diet pushers rather than a sound nutrition plan. Gawd, that sounded like a lecture :-(. I apologize for how heavy handed that sounds but I CARE about my fellow women and the bone health message has to be heard or more women will become slim at the expense, of having brittle bones and bulging bellies, as the gut pushes forward as your spine, shortens and you will do all this low carbohydrate, high animal protein, slimming work and can end up with a worse figure, for it eventually. Don’t believe me, then do some web searching, well away from those low carb diet sites though. You might not like my post but I hope I shocked someone out of getting osteoporosis. The images are of flower art works I painted and have turned into fridge magnets, which can,be ordered, leave a message for me here if interested.  Comments Comments are closed. |
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