If dairy products are the best source of calcium, where do cows get their calcium from?? Green grass!

In the U.S. we consume the largest amount of dairy products and yet we have the highest rate of osteoporosis. If dairy products were the answer to calcium intake and bone health, this would not be so.

Countries that have a much lower calcium intake in the diet but also consume small amounts of animal products have very low rates of osteoporosis. (as well as cancer). For more information concerning documented research on this, read the booklet - The China Project or the book The China Study. 

Meats and sugary “junk foods” leave an acid ash in the body. The body pulls calcium (an alkaline mineral) from the bones to balance the pH levels of the body. After many years of this kind of lifestyle the bones become deficient.   Promote bone building through exercise, getting adequate sunshine [vitamin d] and eating calcium-rich plant based foods like those listed below.

Green leafy vegetables like kale, chard, collards and turnip greens have generous amounts of calcium. Other food sources of calcium include:  flax seed, sesame seed, almonds, brazil nuts, hazelnuts, filberts pistachio nuts, walnuts, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, carob, dulse, figs, kelp,  oats, prunes, carob flour, black turtle beans, garbanzo beans, great northern beans, kidney beans, navy beans, amaranth oats, quinoa and blackstrapt molasses.

For more information on calcium: www.strongbones.org