RE: Amazing Grandmother

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Funny you say that Lowell. My " Mama " (Grandmother) is 85 and still alive.

She works, she dances. she sometimes has to show her Senior Cit.'s ID to

get discounts on things coz people don't believe she's old!!! She has

outlived 3 husbands. The only injury I ever know her having was a couple of

years back coz she was moving her 50 year old neighbour's mattress while her

neighbour stood back and watched!! (She put her hip out but it's fine now.)

She doesn't take any supps and has a glass of wine every night. I wonder if

it's something to do with the minerals or something in her diet??? Anyone

heard the tape " Dead Doctors Don't Lie " ?

JK

Re: Sesame Seeds/Re: Calcium

I have read that supplementing calcium is not necessary and that in cultures

that do not drink milk or supplement that they have the same incidence of

osteoporosis. in fact there is more in N.America than elsewhere perhaps

because we do not walk! Or other factors..who knows for sure. Osteoporosis

is a big industry and there are a lot of untruths. What the truth is I do

not know but I do know that my mother never took HRT or had much milk and

certainly no calcium pills. She lived to 89, fell many times late in life

and never broke anything. Genetics?

On the otherhand, we lived in Hungary in 1976 for a year and there were a

lot of very bent over women from osteoporosis - probably from very poor food

during the war?

This is an area for a lot of research. No clear answers. Ann

RE: Re: Water

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> .... The good news is that we now

> know that it's neither caffeine nor phosphoric acid that contribute to

> calcium loss.

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> I had a bone density test done earlier this year. Normal range is -1

> to +1. I test at +3. (high bone density) They had to repeat the test

> because they thought there was a malfunction of the machine. Same

> result, and everyone before and after me was normal. I had been

> drinking carbonated/caffeinated beverages for close to 20 years. Went

> cold-turkey last year, with a couple of occasional slips. Water only,

> no tea or coffee. Never been a big milk drinker either nor have I

> been very focused on calcium supplements until recently.

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