:D i'm going to show this to my mom so she'll finally get off my case with the whole "you'll die if you don't drink milk!" thing.

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Lisa B.
Sorry,here is the source:

http://www.unhinderedliving.com/ph.html

Thewre are many ways of losing calcium-breathing is one of many.

If you read my previous answers, I referred to balance-milk is not a preferred source for calcium that it has been made out to be-please, read my answers on this same article. Our bodies are not made to process even human milk as adults, much less another animals with different composition, nutritive, and immuno values.v

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I am sorry Clyde but I am confused. You have said that a can of soda causes the body to withdraw 20mg of bone calcium. The opinion piece didn't say that. The links you gave didn't say that either. So where is your source?

And now you are agreeing that your body balances blood pH by breathing? So the reason for not drinking milk is because there are better sources of calcium? Is that what you are saying?

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Lisa, visit the links I gave-the calcium-osteoporosis lnk is dicussed in the care 2 article. Milk is not that great of a source of calcium-read the naturescorner article-about 30% of the calcium in milk is available to the body while about 70% from vegetables is available to the body.Yes, deeper and/or faster expels the carbon dioxide(C02), which is carried in the blood as carbonic acid, driving down CO2 loweres the carbonic acid in the blood, driving up the pH-the blood pH becomes more alkaline.High alkalinity can be fatal as can high acidity-without underlieing medical causes, it would be very hard to achieve fatal levels.

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All of this discussion fails to mention that the act of breathing maintains the acid-base balance in your blood.

Clyde, you say the body must withdraw 20mg of bone calcium for every can of coke, and 10mg of calcium for every gram of meat to neutralize the acid that is the byproduct of the digestion of meat. Pretty bold statements. What are you basing these statements on?

And isn't this discussion about dairy? One of the articles you quoted doesn't even mention dairy.

Again, I say this is a poorly researched article, and the comments are hardly convincing me otherwise.

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I didn't know Dr. Oz recommends dairy. Anyone who would roll up his sleeve on national television to get a flu shot is seriously misleading the public. The pharmaceutical company's own research proves vaccines are dangerous. It also proves that Dr. Oz hasn't bothered to read anything. I guess celebrities will be believed no matter how educated or uneducated they are.

I've never liked Dr. Oz and the flu shot was the final nail in the coffin for me. It's just too bad that there are so many gullible people who believe and trust him.

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Mariaanne Hale, there already is plenty of research-American diets are high in acids(sodas,SOME, not all,juices(surprisingly,most citrus fruits do NOT qualify), proteins) which leach calcium out of our bones to maintain the blood's alkaline pH-this causes osteoporosis and bone spurs. The pH levels of your mouth is between 6.2 and 7.0. However, immediately following fermentable carbohydrate (sugars) consumption, pH values drop significantly. The average pH required for enamel demineralization is 4.5 to 5.5. A can of soda has approximately a pH level of between 2.7 and 3.5. Once the oral pH has lowered, without brushing or rinsing, it takes 1 to 2 hours to recover and return to normal.

The blood MUST maintain this ph and will withdraw calcium from the bones to neutralize blood ph that is too acid. For every can of soda that is drank, the body must withdraw 20mg of bone calcium to neutralize the acid, and for every gram of meat ingested, 10mg of calcium is utilized to neutralize the acid that is the byproduct of the digestion of meat.

Here some excellent articles and charts:
http://www.naturescorner.com/news1_1_05.html

http://www.unhinderedliving.com/phchart.html

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Mariaanne Hale, there already is plenty of research-American diets are high in acids(sodas,SOME, not all,juices(surprisingly,most citrus fruits do NOT qualify), proteins) which leach calcium out of our bones to maintain the blood's alkaline pH-this causes osteoporosis and bone spurs. The pH levels of your mouth is between 6.2 and 7.0. However, immediately following fermentable carbohydrate (sugars) consumption, pH values drop significantly. The average pH required for enamel demineralization is 4.5 to 5.5. A can of soda has approximately a pH level of between 2.7 and 3.5. Once the oral pH has lowered, without brushing or rinsing, it takes 1 to 2 hours to recover and return to normal.

The blood MUST maintain this ph and will withdraw calcium from the bones to neutralize blood ph that is too acid. For every can of soda that is drank, the body must withdraw 20mg of bone calcium to neutralize the acid, and for every gram of meat ingested, 10mg of calcium is utilized to neutralize the acid that is the byproduct of the digestion of meat.

Here some excellent articles and charts:
http://www.naturescorner.com/news1_1_05.html

http://www.unhinderedliving.com/phchart.html

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Someone needs to tell Drs. Oz and Roizen about dairy not being so great as they claim. Americans consume more calcium than any other nation and we have the highest rate of bone fractures, osteoporosis. Why don't they do the research or are they brainwashed by the dairy association?

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The information in this article is not news; I was reading about this 20 years ago when I made the decision to quit meat-eating.

One thing that is missing, though, is the importance of exercise to bone health. Bones are actually a lot like muscles in that stressing them forces the body to strengthen them (and not stressing them causes them to weaken).

Most of the cultures who consume little dairy and have low rates of osteoporosis also largely get around by walking or biking, not driving cars.

Diet is important when considering bone health, but exercise is at least equally so.

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