Gabriel Cousens on milk and calcium: Walter Willett is chairman of the Nutrition Department at the Harvard School of Public Health and coauthored a major study of more than 75,000 American nurses, which found that women with the highest calcium consumption from dairy products actually had substantially more fractures than women who drank less milk. Citing a 1980 study in the journal Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research, Mark Hegsted of Harvard University makes the point that people in the United States and Scandinavian countries consume more dairy products than anywhere else in the world, yet they have the highest rates of osteoporosis. As pointed in out in Conscious Eating and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, there is a problem of excessive protein in the diet. This excessive animal protein creates acidity and a high phosphorus content that pulls calcium out of the bones and therefore is a plausible explanation for why those with the highest dairy intake have the highest rates of osteoporosis. A 1985 study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that dairy products offer no protection against osteoporosis, probably due to the high protein content of milk. The bottom line is that calcium deficiency is not a threat to someone eating a plant-source-only cuisine. In fact, inadequate calcium intake appears not to be a problem at all. A scholarly review of the subject in the Postgraduate Medical Journal in 1976 revealed that calcium deficiency caused by an insufficient amount of calcium in the diet is not known to occur in humans at all. Gabriel Cousens, MD There Is a Cure for Diabetes - Revised Edition
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