Sherry Chandler » Spotted Feb 18 at 4:30 p.m.
Spotted Feb 18 at 4:30 p.m.
The first robin of spring! Looking a little cold and hunkered in, but hey!
And the goldfinches finding their gold.
Spring is going to come again this year, I think.
And, by the way, I didn’t mean by my last post to discourage any one from taking their meds or getting the proper exercise. I didn’t even really mean that I am discouraged about taking my meds and my calcium. I was just riffing on the in-exactitude of statistics and clinical studies. Medicine, like fiction, is an art, not a science.
As I heard said about Kinky Friedman on 60 Minutes: “He’s independent of everything and of everybody. And sometimes he’s independent of his own brain. His mouth is independent of his brain.”
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2 Comments
1. Gin replies at 19th February 2006, 12:38 pm :
I don’t think anyone took your last post that way. I know I didn’t. But hey, no need to worry about the calcium bit. I read yesterday in the Washington Post that Teflon is going to kill us off first. Long live the well funded studies.
2. Rosalie O'Leary replies at 19th February 2006, 7:35 pm :
Hi, Sherry!
I suggest you investigate the relationship of the absorbtion of protein in the body and calcium. I study that I read (I’ll try to find the source) explains that calcium is used in the absortion of protein, and claims that because the Standard American Diet (SAD) contains so much protein, mostly in had to assimilate forms, like meat and dairy, it requires high quantities of calcium to aid in the absorbtion of the protein. If it requires more calcium than we have readily available in our bloodstream, it takes the calcium from our bones. The study suggests that it may not be that we have a lack of calcium, but that we have way too much protein in our diet. And, if you’re getting your calcium primarily from dairy products, you may be making the situation (osteoporosis) worse. There’s lots of calcium, among other good stuff, in green vegetables.
So, eat those veggies, girl!
Rosalie ‘resident healthy foods nut” O’Leary
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