USA Today, March 29, 2005 - People who adhere strictly to raw-food vegetarian diets are thin but have surprisingly robust bones, US researchers reported Monday.
Although nutritionists and the food industry have warned that a diet without dairy food can lead to the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, the team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that the vegans they studied have many of the signs of strong bones. The researchers, reporting in the Archives of Internal Medicine, studied 18 strict vegans, ages 33 to 56, who ate a diet that included unprepared foods such vegetables, fruits, nuts and sprouted grains.
The vegans had higher levels of vitamin D, a key to keeping strong bones, and low levels of C-reactive protein, an inflammatory molecule that has been linked with the risk of heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases. (Test subjects #31 and #32 were Igor and Victoria Boutenko.) http://www.creativehealth.us/news/clinicalstudiesandfinding.html.
Also see Victoria's video, "Green Smoothie Revolution": http://chidiet.com/tapes.htm#v47
[Note from Jim Corcoran:
"I recently had my bone
density checked at a health fair and the nurse on staff said the reading was
"off the chart" (T Score 4.2). She said I had the strongest bones in
anyone she had ever tested. As a nine-year vegan, I was pleased, but not
surprised by the results!"]
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