Remember how your mother ran after you when you were small so that you finish the entire glass of milk and she must have insisted that it is rich in calcium.
Calcium is an important nutrient for bone formation, muscle contraction, neuromuscular transmission and blood clotting. Moreover, it is essential for women
especially when her body is going through changes. During pregnancy, women need
calcium for the development of foetus. While during lactation period, it preserves mother’s bone and supplies proper amount of calcium to the baby.
Furthermore, calcium is more essential for women
during the age of 15 to 25 as it is the time to attain peak bone mass that help protect to avoid osteoporosis later in life.
A must in diet
The best way to obtain the required amount of calcium in everyday life is to consume a diet rich in calcium. Every dairy product provides calcium. Non-dairy food products like salmon, tofu, spinach, turnip, okra, broccoli, almonds, peas and beans are also good source of calcium.
But there are times when a woman needs more calcium than what she gets from food. Elaborating on this Professor Dr Heera Tuladhar, gynaecologist, Kist Medical College Hospital, Lalitpur, said, “During pregnancy and the time of onset of menopause and after menopause women must add calcium supplements to balance the quantity of calcium in body.”
Requirement for mothers
When a woman is pregnant there is
additional need of calcium in body thus she requires extra calcium. During that
period the
growing baby consumes calcium from mother’s bones. Dr Tuladhar elaborated, “Calcium supplied through food is inadequate for a pregnant woman. The baby growing within her also needs calcium to build strong bones and teeth, to develop a healthy heart, nerves and muscles plus to build blood-clotting abilities.”
Calcium supplement maintains the normal amount of calcium — one to two gram per day — in the blood and protects bones from the loss. She added, “A pregnant woman needs 500 gram extra than the regular calcium requirement. The baby will draw calcium from mother’s bones where 99 per cent of calcium is stored and if she doesn’t take the
required amount she is at risk of bone damage later.”
Rich in calcium mother’s milk fulfils baby’s calcium
requirement, but leaves the mother without calcium. “To avoid such situation calcium supplement is vital, as extra calcium intake for the
mother during lactation
period is 500 to 1000 gram per day,” added the doctor.
Few misconceptions Calcium and iron supplements are very important for a pregnant woman from her first trimester till the end of the lactation period. A misconception prevails that if a mother takes calcium supplement when pregnant, baby’s size becomes bigger creating trouble while
delivery. Dr Tuladhar cleared the doubt saying, “Calcium does not make the baby grow extra large. When there is unnecessary amount of calcium in mother’s body, kidney helps extract it out through excretion.”
Another misconception is that calcium intake develops stone in kidney, “but that is not true as long as a person takes doctor’s recommended calcium supplement.”
Menopause and bones Before puberty, both boys and girls gain bone mass consisting calcium in the same ratio. But after puberty men have higher bone mass than women. Furthermore, when the ovaries stop functioning after menopause a woman’s bone structure weakens leading to problem like osteoporosis, which is decreased density of bone or bone mass. According to Dr Tuladhar, this makes the bone vulnerable leading to breaking even after slight trauma like falling or even from coughing or sneezing.
Dr Tuladhar said, “After the age of 35 till menopause most of the women slowly lose bone mass collected in early age. But the rate increases rapidly in post menopause phase because of ovary’s dysfunction.” Talking further on this she said that estrogen produced by ovary helps absorb calcium and when this stops bones become fragile and weak increasing the chances of osteoporosis and fractures. She added, “To prevent fracture and damage in the bone, calcium supplement is essential for woman after certain age.”
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As you may well know, the kidneys are part of the body’s filtering system, where toxins are picked up by the circulatory system, carried to the kidneys to be removed from the body. This is important for maintaining our overall health.
High blood pressure, and high blood sugar are two of the main causes of kidney disease which makes kidney failure a lifestyle disease, totally preventable by diet.
Eating lots of acid producing foods such as micro-waved foods, tap water, boxed or instant foods, chips, processed foods, soft drinks, artificial sweeteners, meats, and also many prescription and over-the-counter drugs tax the liver and, in turn, the kidneys.
In the presence of a poor diet, eventually the kidneys become over burdened by the heavy toxic load. To help with the filtering process, the heart increases the flow of blood plasma to the kidneys, which in turn elevates blood pressure.
As the kidney cells die, the risk of kidney disease increases dramatically. End stage kidney disease occurs when about 90 percent of kidney function has been lost. People with kidney failure may experience nausea, vomiting, weakness, fatigue, confusion, difficulty concentrating and loss of appetite.
The right foods prevent heart disease and diabetes, and therefore prevent kidney failure. Also today there is clear evidence that a vegetarian diet free of chemicals and artificial ingredients can actually reverse kidney disease and thereby circumvent kidney failure.
In order to restore healthy kidney function, we eliminate as much toxic acid waste from the body as possible. This is a real detox, which allows the kidneys to rest, and with proper feeding, to regenerate.
The alkalinizing diet will re-balance the body’s pH level, which is the beginning of restoring health. The vegetarian diet, vegetable juices and the right combination of supplements will neutralize the acids and dissolve any kidney stones, and any clumps before becoming stones.
What to eat: Eat only organic, naturally grown foods, mostly raw. Cooked veggies should only be lightly sautéed in coconut oil and seasoned with herbs and spices, Sea Salt and pepper. (no salt substitutes, nothing with chemicals). Try adding more beans, and unsalted nuts, seeds, and organic almond butter to your diet.. Fresh fruit and vegetable smoothies, nothing artificial, no meat, milk, chicken, deli meats, no pork.
For the smoothies, use almond milk or rice milk, organic carrot juice or organic apple juice with frozen fruits and fresh cut and washed veggies. Make up your own recipes using only fresh organic ingredients.
Eat wild caught fish, fruit salads, green leafy salads and no pickles.
Drink bottled purified and filtered water, tea made at home, no sugar and no artificial sweeteners. Have a glass of organic cranberry juice daily to disinfect the bladder to discourage infections. ( and empty the bladder as needed, no holding). Eat at home, no eating out until your body is healed!!!. It seems extreme, but it works. Is your health worth the work? Remember, Health is a Choice!,
As you may well know, the kidneys are part of the body’s filtering system, where toxins are picked up by the circulatory system, carried to the kidneys to be removed from the body. This is important for maintaining our overall health.
High blood pressure, and high blood sugar are two of the main causes of kidney disease which makes kidney failure a lifestyle disease, totally preventable by diet.
Eating lots of acid producing foods such as micro-waved foods, tap water, boxed or instant foods, chips, processed foods, soft drinks, artificial sweeteners, meats, and also many prescription and over-the-counter drugs tax the liver and, in turn, the kidneys.
In the presence of a poor diet, eventually the kidneys become over burdened by the heavy toxic load. To help with the filtering process, the heart increases the flow of blood plasma to the kidneys, which in turn elevates blood pressure.
As the kidney cells die, the risk of kidney disease increases dramatically. End stage kidney disease occurs when about 90 percent of kidney function has been lost. People with kidney failure may experience nausea, vomiting, weakness, fatigue, confusion, difficulty concentrating and loss of appetite.
The right foods prevent heart disease and diabetes, and therefore prevent kidney failure. Also today there is clear evidence that a vegetarian diet free of chemicals and artificial ingredients can actually reverse kidney disease and thereby circumvent kidney failure.
In order to restore healthy kidney function, we eliminate as much toxic acid waste from the body as possible. This is a real detox, which allows the kidneys to rest, and with proper feeding, to regenerate.
The alkalinizing diet will re-balance the body’s pH level, which is the beginning of restoring health. The vegetarian diet, vegetable juices and the right combination of supplements will neutralize the acids and dissolve any kidney stones, and any clumps before becoming stones.
What to eat: Eat only organic, naturally grown foods, mostly raw. Cooked veggies should only be lightly sautéed in coconut oil and seasoned with herbs and spices, Sea Salt and pepper. (no salt substitutes, nothing with chemicals). Try adding more beans, and unsalted nuts, seeds, and organic almond butter to your diet.. Fresh fruit and vegetable smoothies, nothing artificial, no meat, milk, chicken, deli meats, no pork.
For the smoothies, use almond milk or rice milk, organic carrot juice or organic apple juice with frozen fruits and fresh cut and washed veggies. Make up your own recipes using only fresh organic ingredients.
Eat wild caught fish, fruit salads, green leafy salads and no pickles.
Drink bottled purified and filtered water, tea made at home, no sugar and no artificial sweeteners. Have a glass of organic cranberry juice daily to disinfect the bladder to discourage infections. ( and empty the bladder as needed, no holding). Eat at home, no eating out until your body is healed!!!. It seems extreme, but it works. Is your health worth the work? Remember, Health is a Choice!,
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