Brittle Bones: Is It Something In the Water?
Written by
Irma Jennings, INHC
Uploaded
January 23
Brittle Bones and fluoride? Is it the water? When I was growing up in the 1950s, the government added fluoride to our drinking water. That was supposed to be the end of tooth decay.
But when I was 8 years old my dentist told me I had more cavities than teeth! So I guess the fluoride didn’t work for me.
But I’m not alone. A National Institute of Dental Research study of 39,000 U.S. school children found 1 part-per-million (ppm) of fluoride in the water supply increased tooth decay 5.4%.[i] A study of 400,000 Chinese students showed it increased tooth decay by 27%.[ii] (more…)
I don’t have to look at the calendar to see when fall arrives. I feel it in my bones. They get very excited when the first beautiful butternut squash appears at the farmer’s market.
Butternut squash is related to pumpkin and, in fact, my friends in Australia and New Zealand know it as “butternut pumpkin.” And the pretty pumpkin color inside tells you why butternut squash is so good for you and your bones.
When the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki in World War II, 21 hospital workers were caring for 70 tuberculosis patients. Even though the hospital was only 1.4 kilometers from ground zero, NO ONE developed acute radiation poisoning.
How can that be? One of the doctors explained that everyone was protected by consuming daily cups of miso soup with wakame seaweed.
Got Almond Milk? You’ve heard me say this before. When it comes to healthy bones I don’t recommend drinking milk. Yes, milk is high in calcium. But it’s also an acidic food that over time can lead to weaker – not stronger - bones.
Americans rely on milk for their bones thanks to a huge marketing push by the dairy industry. But studies are increasingly showing that higher dairy consumption is associated with a higher risk of broken bones.
When I heard about Newark Mayor Cory Booker's (now Senator) one week Food Stamp Challenge on the Sunday Morning Show, I was intrigued. As a bone health and nutrition coach, I wondered whether you could not just survive but eat well on food stamps.
When I say eat well, I mean eating fresh, unprocessed, organic, non-GMO food. Now that's a challenge!
With my friend Vicki, we set a goal to eat well on a budget of $4.40 per person, per day -- the same "per day" budget Mayor Booker used.
Food budget:
Daily: $4.40 per day, per person
Weekly: $30.80 per person, $61.60 combined/per week.
What We Ate
This news is so upsetting that I had to share it ASAP.
I've spoken (and screamed) about GMOs in my free educational webinar.
And now take 12 minutes to view this video and you'll understand why I was chilled to my bones. Be advised this study uses lab rats and for my animal lovers and vegetarian readers, some of the images may be disturbing. (more…)
Rosie O’Donnell and I have something in common. Recently we both had the same health scare – chest pains. I was luckier than Rosie. Her pain turned out to be a heart attack. Mine - we think - was indigestion.
I’m pretty careful about my food, so indigestion was a puzzle. Was I eating too many of those delicious candy like but acidic cherry tomatoes from my backyard garden? Was it stress? Or lifting too many heavy boxes during my move from Philadelphia to New Hope (don’t ya love that name…New Hope)? Or the heavy metals detoxification program I’ve been following? But that’s another story…
Whatever the cause, it got me thinking about how important good digestion is to everything – especially your bones. If you’re not digesting your food, you’re not breaking it down into the vitamins and minerals your bones need.
You might have noticed by now that I’m not a big fan of dairy as your main source of bone healthy nutrients. I like a wider variety of foods for healthy bones, including dark leafy greens, seaweeds and bone broths.
But then there’s yogurt…and here’s where I have to make an exception to my dairy prejudice.
Yogurt is fermented by adding bacterial cultures to milk, transforming the milk sugar, lactose, into lactic acid.
Here’s why yogurt is better than milk when it comes to your bones: acidity.
Vitamin K used to be a super secret agent. A few scientists were privy to its powers to protect your skeleton but they weren’t talking. Vitamin K has now been outed. It’s making headlines and has become the hot new nutrition celebrity - especially when it comes to strong bones.
