Re: The Acid question

"Carole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Moosh! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > >Probably different for every person. Any diet which doesn't contain
> > >enough calcium is calcium deficient. How much calcium is there in meat
> > >and vegetables? How much calcium in fruit?
> > >But another point is that a lot of foods produce an acid residue when
> > >they get used up in the body (eg meat, eggs, fish, sugar, flour)and
> > >when the blood gets too acid calcium falls out of solution and becomes
> > >unusable in the body -- according to the theory. Read Paul Bragg's
> > >books for more on this idea.
> >
> > No thanks, not if this is the sort of crap he spouts. Sugar and flour
> > tend to produce alkaline urine. Proteins tend to give acid, as does
> > exercise, and carbs give alkaline. A normal diet has little effect.
> > There is plently of calcium in a normal, varied, wholefood diet.
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> Sure there is, and there isn't a whole plague of oldies with
> osteoporsis.

To prevent osteoporosis one needs more calcium than
provided by cell salt tablets.