Bone boosting foods
- Calcium content of foods:
- Cheddar 2oz 430mg
- Orange juice 8oz 350mg
- yogurt low fat 8oz 448mg
- nonfat milk 8oz 300mg
- soymilk calicium fortified 8oz 300mg
- sesame seeds 2oz 280mg
- almonds 3oz 210mg
- tofu 4oz 200mg
- white beans (cooked) 8oz 161mg
- bok choy (chinese vege) 8oz 150mg
- parmesean grated cheese 2tab 138mg
- dried figs 5 125mg
- broccoli(cooked) 8oz 94mg
Fruits and vegetables create a bone boosting alkaline environment in our bodies. Choose less of the acid producing foods & more of the alkaline /bone boosters
- 1.Pasta instead choose potato/yam
- 2.Soda ” diluted fruit juice/herb tea
- 3.Meat/poultry tofu
- 4.Beer wine
- 5.peanuts raisens/almonds/walnuts
Exercise: wearing either a backpack with a few cans of soup when you go out for your walk or on treadmill, or a fishermans’ vest with the pockets filled with fishing weights. Start out with a small amount of weight and over the course of a few weeks slowly add to it. The stress of gravity, particularly with weights stimulate bone growth. Astronauts, out in space, in an antigravity condition, experience some bone loss within just 7 days without the stress of gravity on their bones.