Here's one site on calcium that googled up:
http://www.foodallergysolutions.com/calcium.html
He describes the different kinds of calcium supplements, the worst (least absorbable) being Calcium carbonate and the best (most absorbable) being Calcium citrate-malate.
He talks about how dairy is not a good source of calcium, because most people don't absorb the calcium very well.
He recommends getting calcium from leafy dark green vegetables. He doesn't mention bones, maybe he is vegetarian biased, I am not sure.
Me, I have been experimenting with raw dairy lately. I wonder if you absorb the calcium from raw dairy any better than from pasteurized dairy?
But I do gnaw on cooked chicken bones, the rounded ends get soft sometimes and I chew them, I've grown fond of them.
I've been thinking to eat canned sardines more often, you get soft bones in there.
I used to have a fish recipe, you cook the fish a long time and the bones get soft. I don't have it anymore. It was a macrobiotic recipe. Very yang, I remember.
Weight bearing exercise is best for your bones. I was confused by that term "weight-bearing" I thought it meant you had to lift weights, but apparently any exercise that you bear your own body weight counts. Two exercises that are NOT weight bearing are bicycling and swimming. So don't rely on those as your only form of exercise.
- T
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "RickS" <rstewart@...> wrote:
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> The problem is, your body requires calcium and other minerals to de-acidify and alkalinize itself. If your intake is too low, your body will take it from your bones. Calcium is also essential for proper nerve and endocrine function. So the goal is just to make sure you have enough serum calcium circulating so that your body doesn't have to remove it from your bones. Calcium is so vital to health that it's tightly regulated in the body to about 1% of the total calcium in your body. If your body falls below that 1% it WILL get it from either your intestines or your bones. No bones about it. :)
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> -Rick
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