[blparent] calcium truth and legend was: Re: (no subject)

[Tammy, Paul and Colyn]

Hi,

I can assure you that my message below contains links and actual quotes from 
peer reviewed studies, and if you do a search on bmj for them you'll find 
them.  I'm sorry I didn't take time to quote the exact links, but I thought 
my information would be adequate enough to help listers if they wanted to 
look it up.  If they needed or if you needed more information my email is 
not hidden, and people, including Amber could have emailed me off list if 
they wanted to.  Instead she chose to flame me publicly, and you chose to do 
nothing about it.

Tammy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deborah Kent Stein" <dkent5817 at att.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] calcium truth and legend was: Re: (no subject)


>
>
> The overriding purpose of this list is to share the experience of being or 
> becoming a blind parent.  Obviously we are all concerned with a host of 
> parenting issues that are not related to blindness, but this list isn't 
> the forum for such exchanges.  On topics such as immunization or calcium 
> intake I suggest we might share links to websites that may prove useful, 
> and take further discussion off list.
>
> Debbie
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tammy, Paul and Colyn" <tcl189 at rogers.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:15 PM
> Subject: [blparent] calcium truth and legend was: Re: (no subject)
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> ok, much of the below is completely untrue. First let me say that 
>> everyone is entitled to and of course here encouraged to share opinions 
>> and this is fine when they are just that, opinions.
>> However, much of the below, while stated as fact, is anything but.
>>
>> firstly, the dreaded enemy milk.
>> Milk is in fact often a woman's saviour.
>> Before trying calcium supplements see below.
>> Most nutritionists will tell you that if you can use a natural source of 
>> a given element, almost no matter what it is, over a supplement, you 
>> should do so.
>> Far from being the cause of indigestion, it often eases it, indigestion 
>> is very often the cause of the dreaded pregnancy related heart burn that 
>> many of us experience and a glass of milk when you have heartburn will 
>> very often ease it completely.
>> Now for calcium supplements.
>> The problem with calcium is that it is only absorbed into the body in the 
>> presence of magnesium, this is why low fat milks are no longer touted as 
>> necessarily a good remedy for osteoporosis, the truth is they just don't 
>> work.
>> If your calcium supplement does not contain magnesium, you are being sold 
>> a pup and in many supplements particularly so called health supplements 
>> this is very much the case.
>> They just don't do what they say.
>> Which brings us to the studies   not really actually quoted below.
>> The British medical journal:
>> http://www.bmj.com
>> published a study in think late 1994, but don't quote me on the year, 
>> which showed that studies that convincingly demonstrated 1 product as 
>> being notably  superior to all others on the market were often flawed and 
>> investigation revealed that many of these studies are not in fact 
>> independent.
>> Without knowing the actual study sighted below it's impossible to say 
>> whether this fits.
>> Caution: if you are allergic to or intolerant to milk, then of course a 
>> calcium supplement is by far your best bet but expensive is not 
>> necessarily better.
>> Also, beware of posts like the below that make all traditional medicine 
>> practitioners such as doctors, nutritionist, etc, out to be this evil 
>> conspiracy group.
>> In general these opinions are flawed also.
>> In fact the so called natural health sector is far more likely to contain 
>> fraudulent practitioners as it is very difficult to regulate and has 
>> always been under regulated way back to the sellers of snake oils.
>> Many supplements are just that, snake oil by another name, be very 
>> careful, and read labels whenever possible to make sure that along with 
>> calcium your supplement has a magnesium component in it.
>> Note: amber, you may wish to spell check or at least proof read your 
>> messages before sending, especially when stating supposed facts,  for 
>> example, calcium, c, a, l, c, i, u, m.
>> For those of you having heart burn issues etc, don't give up on dairy 
>> just yet, while the jury is definitely out on the below, there is a huge 
>> body of evidence to suggest milk is very good for you druing and 
>> immediately after pregnancy.
>> Hth.
>> Tammy
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Amber Boggs" <amberboggs at socal.rr.com>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] (no subject)
>>
>>
>>> Here is the deal with calsiam. Yes milk has some in it, about 300 
>>> Milagrams in hole milk. However pregnant wiman need way more then that 
>>> each day. Milk is a commen cause of sickness and digestion problems in 
>>> Preggnant wimin, so many wimin stay clear of milk. There are other 
>>> sorces of calsiam, but the best thing you can do is take a really good 
>>> calsiam. The best on the market that is the most obzorbibale is made by 
>>> standard process. They are a bit pricy, but well werth it. They have 
>>> done studies to show the benafits of lots of calsiam durrign preggnancy, 
>>> and it can help with alot of problems. The only reasons I drink millk is 
>>> to drink the way. Otherwise I don't really drink milk ever. But I always 
>>> take the standard process, and am always very healthy.
>>>
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