Re: Vicki - biprousa ?> Pearl

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Thank you for the review on this ! I noticed it is made with isolates,which is

supposed to be the best type of protein sources for us. I just had never seen

this one ! I will add it to my list to try !

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> us who can no longer take Fosamax et al for thinning or porous bones. I

> haven't done any additional research on this study, so am only throwing it

> out there for consideration.

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> > > > > > Can prunes reverse

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> > > > > > by Dr. E. Brown, PhD

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> > > > > > My friend and fellow osteoporosis researcher Dr. Bahram Arjmandi

> says yes, the humble prune can reverse bone loss, and his research data is

> looking strong. For more than a decade Dr. Arjmandi of Florida State

> University in Tallahassee has tested a wide variety of " functional foods " for

> their potential impact on bone health. He has studied soy, blueberries,

> strawberries, raisins, dates, and finally prunes. No other natural substance,

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> reports, comes near to having the bone-building effect of prunes. Further,

> when I saw him at the ASBMR international bone meeting last fall, he

> reported he had never seen any natural substance produce such consistent

> beneficial bone-building results.

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> > > > > > Dr. Arjmandi's several successful animal and human studies

> document that special phenolic compounds in dried plums up-regulate growth

> factors linked to bone formation (such as IGF-1) and counter the activity of

> factors that inhibit bone formation (such as TNF-alpha). It probably also

> helps that prunes are one of the foods highest in antioxidants and also

contain

> generous amounts of various key bone nutrients including potassium, boron,

> and copper. While Dr. Arjmandi has found other natural substances capable

> of halting bone loss, prunes were the only food found to actually restore

> lost bone.

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> > > > > > This summer Dr. Arjmandi and colleagues will complete a

> landmark, controlled human clinical trial on prunes and bone health. For this

> study, 120 post-menopausal women have been taking either 100 grams of prunes

> (9-10 a day) or an equivalent portion of dried apples for one year. While it

> will be a few more months before all the research data is in, thus far 30

> women in the prune group have had at least a 6% increase in hip bone, and one

> woman had an exceptional 11% increase consuming prunes over the year.

> Preliminary data from a segment of research subjects found that all

> prune-eaters showed at least some improvement in bone mass by six months into

the

> study.

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> > > > > > For several years I have heard Dr. Arjmandi speak of his prune

> research and read many of his research articles. It makes sense: if you

> could limit factors that hinder bone formation, such as inflammation and

> oxidative stress, and at the same time up-regulate new bone formation growth

> factors, and provide key bone nutrients, you could well accomplish the

> unthinkable and stimulate new bone formation with a simple, wholesome food

> substance.

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> > > > > > At the Center for Better Bones, a group of us (including myself)

> are doing their own " prune experiment. " If you are inclined to join us,

> take Dr. Arjmandi's advice and start slowly with a few prunes a day, working

> up to the full 9-10 over time. I have found soaked or stewed prunes are

> easier to digest, and Dr. Arjmandi has found that prunes do not lead to

either

> weight gain or increased blood sugar levels. Also they should help build

> new bone in men as well as women.

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> > > > > > References: Arjmandi, BH et al. 2002. Dried plums improve

> indices of bone formation in postmenopausal women. Journal of Women's Health

&

> Gender-Based Medicine, 11:61-68.

> > > > > > Hooshmand, S and Arjmandi, BH. 2009. Viewpoint: Dried plum, an

> emerging functional food that may effectively improve bone health. Ageing

> Res Rev, Apr 8:122-7.

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