Re: The Acid question

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

Yes, it's hard to build a bone out of a homeopathic dose of calcium.

However, one also needs vitamin D, and load-bearing exercise.  The
calcium alone won't help much.

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