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Healthy women who want to take active steps to promote bone health might have a few questions after reading this headline above a NutraIngredients-USA article: “Dietary Calcium Better for Bones than Supplements – Study”
Jul 05, 2007 Panoramic View. Healthy women who want to take active steps to promote bone health might have a few questions after reading this headline above a NutraIngredients-USA article: “Dietary Calcium Better for Bones than Supplements – Study”. HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D. Dec 08, 2010 In Tomorrow’s Cancer Cures TODAY, Allan Spreen, M.D. Talks about the need for alternative cancer treatment and shares what he considers to be the best and the most cutting edge cancer cures from.
Mar 28, 2020 The advisory panel at HSI includes several medical doctors and health care professionals. Youtube to mp3 for mac. Allan Spreen, M.D., runs the research team at NorthStar Nutritionals, as of 2015. Spreen also advises the Metabolic Research Center and Discovery Health Channel. Michael Rosenbaum, M.D., works at the Preventive Medical Center of Marin in California. Sep 01, 1996 Allan Bloom was a man of letters who had the good fortune to reach both a scholarly and a popular audience-but not on a plane of universal goodwill and high consensus. For those just arriving on the planet Earth, Bloom adopted and extended the approaches to political philosophy developed by Leo Strauss. Mar 28, 2020 Spreen also advises the Metabolic Research Center and Discovery Health Channel. Michael Rosenbaum, M.D., works at the Preventive Medical Center of Marin in California. Rosenbaum has been a medical doctor since the late 1960s and is a past president of the Orthomolecular Health Medical Society.
So what does this mean? Are calcium supplements ineffective? Should women forget about supplements and just drink a gallon of milk every day?
A closer look at the article – and the study – reveals useful answers (along with insights from our nutrition physician, HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D.).
Headline grabber
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine (Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases) in St. Louis interviewed nearly 170 healthy postmenopausal women to determine their average daily intake of calcium from supplemental and dietary sources. The Washington team also measured bone mineral density (BMD) in the spine and femoral neck (the section of the femur that’s most vulnerable to fracture) of each subject.
- When the data was analyzed, each woman was assigned to one of three groups:
- Diet Group: At least 70 percent of calcium from food sources – about 830 mg per day
- Supplemental Group: At least 70 percent of calcium from dietary supplements – about 1,030 mg per day
- Diet Plus Supplement Group: About the same amounts of calcium from supplements as from food sources – about 1,620 mg per day
Results showed that subjects in the Diet Group had higher BMD in both the spine and femoral neck compared to subjects in the Supplement Group. But here’s the most revealing comment from the NutraIngredients-USA article: “Women in the ‘diet plus supplement group’ had the highest bone mineral density.”
Okay, let’s take a look at the article title again: “Dietary Calcium Better for Bones than Supplements – Study” Does that seem exactly right to you? Wouldn’t something like, “Dietary Calcium Plus Supplements Best for Bones – Study” be a more accurate way to lead readers to the true value of this study?
The thing I like about this study is that it shows how dietary supplements help promote good health by doing what they quite literally are supposed to do, supplement the nutrients in food.
Perfecting the mix
Calcium is so well known as the primary nutrient associated with bone health that many people wrongly believe that calcium-rich foods and a calcium supplement are all that’s needed for proper bone health. But your bones actually require a full panorama of nutrients to maintain healthy BMD.
The Washington University study was sent to me by Dr. Spreen along with this note: “Calcium alone is not very effective (if at all). In fact, if taken without magnesium it’s more likely to be deposited where you don’t want it, like on arterial walls.”
In addition to magnesium, Dr. Spreen recommends adequate amounts of the following nutrients required for complete bone support:
- Magnesium
- Vitamin D
- Phosphorous
- Manganese
- Silica
- Boron
- Strontium
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin B-12
- Zinc
And anyone who buys the idea that antacid tablets provide proper calcium supplementation is way off base. Dr. Spreen: “Straight calcium alone, set up to deliberately be an antacid product, can actually lower calcium absorption.”
In the e-Alert “Absorbing it All” (4/19/04), Dr. Spreen offers an invaluable review of the different types of calcium supplements, with special emphasis on the importance of absorbability. You can find “Absorbing it All” at this link: http://www.hsionline.com/ealerts/ea200404/ea20040419.html
One final note: Dr. Spreen points out that once all the required nutrients are supplied, regular exercise is an important component of bone health.
You have to be impressed with a food that can be processed as either ice cream or tuna fish.
That’s a joke my sister came up with about soy. And yes, I used it in a previous e-Alert. But some jokes just never get old.
Some views do, however. For instance: the mindset that soy is the end-all and be-all of health foods is beginning to change as ongoing research continues to point toward the unhealthy aspects of soy products. It’s now obvious that soy is anything but health food, which is why I’ve slowly phased it out of my diet. And all the evidence would imply that that’s a healthy choice.
Soy 101In an e-Alert I sent you last week (“Milky Way” 4/9/03), HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D., mentioned that soy has a protein quality rating of “1,” even though soy protein is inferior to the protein found in eggs and dairy products. A member named Bob responded with this e-mail about two very specific problems with soy:
“What about the effects of soy genistein on mineral absorption, the effects of soy phytoestrogens on infants and pre-pubescent adolescents, etc.? I would like to have seen some comments by the good doctor concerning the array of documented health negatives involved with the ingestion of soy products.”
Before I turn things over to Dr. Spreen for a response, I’ll define some of Bob’s terminology for those of you who may have skipped biology class the day they covered soy.
Genistein is a type of isoflavone found in chick peas and legumes (such as soy). Isoflavone is a phytochemical (bioactive plant chemical), but more importantly it’s a phytoestrogen – a bioactive compound that has estrogenic activity. Among the legumes, soy has the most concentrated amount of isoflavones. And as you might suspect, soy can trigger effects in the hormones of both men and women, and maybe even children.
The modern soybeanWhen you take the basic components of the soybean, and then add to that the modern procedures of cultivation and mass production, you have a highly processed food of dubious nutritional value. And as you’ll see in his response to Bob’s e-mail, Dr. Spreen agrees:
“I am not a fan of today’s soy for a large list of reasons (even though the stuff is commonly labeled a ‘health food’). The phytates on board block absorption of more than just minerals (proteins are also involved), and are only deactivated with soy that’s been fermented. Tofu, textured soy protein and most other forms are anything but. Tempeh, miso, soy sauce made by the traditional method (most in the U.S. is not), and a few other forms are the only ones that qualify, and we don’t see them much around here.
“Today’s commercial soybeans are not the same as in centuries past – they’ve been modified, which alone bothers me. However, the current hype about the phytoestrogens in soy is, to me, further cause for worry. Daidzein and genistein are named as reasons to procure soy, especially for women with menopausal difficulties. The jury may still be out on that one, assuming you have a form of soy with no phytates. However, there’s little doubt that some significant estrogenic influence is involved, and that should be of concern to developing little bodies, in my opinion, both male and female.
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“I wouldn’t pump the stuff into my kidsbut that’s just me.”
Soy taketh awayRegarding the way that isoflavones might interfere with the sexual and hormonal development of children, Dr. Spreen singled out an article that appeared in the March 1999 issue of Natural Health. In that article, author Sally Euclaire Osborne cited a New Zealand study that examined the isoflavone levels in soy formula for babies. The recommended daily intake of the formula was found to be FOUR TIMES the amount capable of changing the reproductive hormones in women.
Beyond the frightening prospect of creating an estrogenic response in children, nutrition experiments with adults have shown that a soy-based diet requires supplementation with vitamins E, K, D, and B12, and creates significant deficiencies in copper, iron, zinc, magnesium, and calcium. This is especially important for post-menopausal women, who by eating soy or taking soy supplements as a form of natural HRT, could be putting themselves at risk for nutritional deficiencies and osteoporosis. And it’s also important for anyone who doesn’t eat meat, as they tend to be B12 deficient.
For a much broader overview of the health hazards of soy, Dr. Spreen recommends what he calls a “somewhat scary” article titled “The Ploy of Soy” by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, Ph.D., published online at westonaprice.org. It’s important to note that this is a pro-dairy group. Still, this article and others that appear in the “Soy Alert!” section of that web site clearly demonstrate that soy is a far cry from health food.
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Sources:
“Does Soy Have a Dark Side?” Sally Eauclaire Osborne, Natural Health, March 1999,
“Does Soy Have a Dark Side?” Sally Eauclaire Osborne, Natural Health, March 1999,