Calcium and Osteoporosis

Got milk and... got osteoporosis?
How's that? Doesn't milk protect you from bone loss?

By Rob McLean

A plant-based diet has adequate calcium for the diets of most of the world.

Calcium is readily available in many plant sources.

Milk--Calcium--Protein
Do they protect from osteoporosis?

If you don't drink milk and eat dairy products, where do you get calcium?

How do you get your calcium without dairy products?

Personally I feel plant sources of calcium actually "do my body" much better than milk.

Just 1/2 cup of tofu set with calcium has almost as much calcium as one cup of milk and slightly more calcium than a cup of yogurt.

I use calcium fortified soy beverages for cooking and on the rare occasion when I eat cereal.

For snacks I enjoy almonds, Brazil nuts, pistachios, and sunflower seeds, all high in calcium. And then for baking, I use black strap molasses and carob flour, two excellent sources of calcium.

And, for all my sources of calcium, I have not eaten any animal protein!

One word of caution: Spinach and rhubarb appear to be good sources of calcium.

However, they both contain calcium in the form of calcium oxalate, which blocks absorption of calcium. Unfortunately this not only blocks calcium absorption from spinach and rhubarb, but also from any other food you eat at the same time.

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