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A study has revealed that bone fracture risk is reduced by taking Vitamin D and calcium supplements. The study involved almost 70,000 patients from all over Europe and America. The study especially revealed that the benefits were applicable to all people male or female, young or old and those who had or had not experienced a bone fracture in the past.

Although the study was first published in 2006, it has only just been made available online on the British Medical Journal’s website.

Professor of internal medicine at UC Davis and a joint-author of the journal article, John Robbins said: “What is important about this very large study is that it goes a long way toward resolving conflicting evidence about the role of vitamin D, either alone or in combination with calcium, in reducing fractures.”

He further added that “Our WHI research in Sacramento included more than 1,000 healthy,
postmenopausal women and concluded that taking calcium and vitamin D together helped them preserve bone health and prevent fractures. This latest analysis, because it incorporates so many more people, really confirms our earlier conclusions.”

Researchers working at Denmark’s Copenhagen University led the study that analyzed results obtained from seven big clinical trials that were conducted around the world. Each study was aimed at determining whether just vitamin D on its own was most effective at reducing fractures in people 70 years old or more or whether the addition of calcium made a difference. No benefits of vitamin D supplementation alone were found.

Summing up, Robins said that “This study supports a growing consensus that combined calcium and vitamin D is more effective than vitamin D alone in reducing a variety of fractures,” and that “Interestingly, this combination of supplements benefits both women and men of all ages, which is not something we fully expected to find. We now need to investigate the best dosage, duration and optimal way for people to take it.”

Digestive health therapy is a way of making sure that you have the right type and amount of digestive enzymes. Although the body manufactures its own digestive enzymes in the pancreas, a lot of help is received from the enzymes that exist in the food you eat. However, due to eating over processed or over cooked food most if not all of the enzymes contained in the food are destroyed. This means that the body has to work harder to compensate for the lack of natural enzymes. It also means that the food is not digested as completely as it should be.

enzymes also help in building strong bones, purifying the blood, fixing connective tissue, detoxifying the body and reducing inflammation. The enzymes most concerned with digestion are amylase, lipase, and protease. The biggest source of these enzymes is from fresh raw foods such as fruits and vegetables. As they are often destroyed in cooking a lot of people are taking to a raw food diet; if not completely then partially.

Another reason why the raw food diet is becoming more popular is because it is predominantly alkaline and as the body itself is more alkaline than acidic, there is a natural synchronicity. The more that food is processed and cooked, the more it becomes acidic and brings with it potential digestive problems. Moving to a completely raw food diet may be a huge undertaking, but just a little fresh food will go a long way to assisting your body with what is a pretty huge task; that of digestion.

However, it is not to be said that gains cannot be made just by slight modifications to your existing diet, steam and stir fry veg a bit more, add a little salad to your sandwich, and much on an apple a day…….

Dangers of the high street coffee!!

 Starbucks is under attack- Salt and ………soya!!

We are most of us aware of the ‘dangers’ of too much salt in our diets. We most of us attempt to limit our consumption of added salt and avoid the reported high salt products. It would seem however that the problem of the ‘hidden’ demon is ever increasing!!

 A Starbucks muffin you would assume and forgive for being a high sugar product- but high salt too? As much as the 2 rashers of bacon that you could have had in a morning fry up? Now thats just not fair!!

Yes it seems a Starbucks pain au raisen contains TWICE as much salt as the same product from Cafe Nero….. If it tasted twice as good one might feel less cheated….

And soya too……..SOYA?! but that’s healthy I hear you cry!

 It would seen not the case. Now…. soya traditionally produced can be a very beneficial protein alternative. BUT this is when it is traditionally produced in countries such as Indonesia and China, a process involving a slow fermentation that detoxifies the naturally poisonous chemicals within the soya bean plant. soya products such as Tempeh, Miso Natto and Soya sauce are all produced using this toxin removing process. Such a manual process is uneconomic with respect to time and labour and it is impossible to produce an inexpensive product in sufficient quantities with such methods. As a consequence many of the soya products that arrive on our shop shelves are there as a result of cheaper methods, this is the process;

1. Wash the beans in highly alkaline bath or boil in petroleum based solvents.

2. Bleach and introduce various questionable compounds into the mix

3. Heat blasting and crushing the mix into small flakes

4. Mix with water to make ‘milk’. So the above process makes a ‘milk’ of the bean without attempting to remove the dangerous toxins it contains… hmmmm……….

 However, in its defence soya products contain isoflavones which are claimed to reduce the risk of certain diseases. But, isoflavones also contain phytoestrogens- chemicals capable of mimicking human oestrogens….. these phytoestrogens are capable of causing infantile leukaemia and breast cancer research would conclude.

So it is not the soya product as such that is the problem , but is once again human greed- high demand has led to cost cutting methods which have resulted in once again, us poisoning ourselves.

 Starbucks is just responding to demand, we are crying out to be poisoned by both our demand for cheap health products and our ignorant acceptance when these are given to us!

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