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Replacement for calcium?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:40 am    Post subject: Replacement for calcium? Reply with quote
I don't like milk, for obvious reasons. But I feel I lack in calcium because of it. Are there any other food sources that pack a good or decent amount of calcium? I have almond milk with sprouted grain cereals but I'd like to have some calcium.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Green leafy vegetables is a good source I think.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yep, all the dark green leafy veggies - kale, spinach, parsley, cilantro, beet tops, mustard greens. It's hard to get enough calcium from these sources tho unless you juice them.

Broccoli is also very good.

And if you eat small fish like sardines with bones, you get calcium that way.

Can you eat kefir/yogurt? Great way to get calcium and repopulate gut flora.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
shelley wrote:
Yep, all the dark green leafy veggies - kale, spinach, parsley, cilantro, beet tops, mustard greens. It's hard to get enough calcium from these sources tho unless you juice them.

Broccoli is also very good.

And if you eat small fish like sardines with bones, you get calcium that way.

Can you eat kefir/yogurt? Great way to get calcium and repopulate gut flora.


Oh I already am eating a lot of vegetables, and broccoli, er actually broccolini. As for kefir, I can nly buy the ones made from pasteurized milk, that ok? I used to make my own using raw goat milk and kefir grains, but buying goats milk out of state on a regular basis burns a whole in the wallet.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
they may have started out with pasteurized, but if it's real yogurt or real kefir it ain't pasteurized any longer.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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they may have started out with pasteurized, but if it's real yogurt or real kefir it ain't pasteurized any longer.


What do exactly mean Shelley?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
the real stuff has living microbes in it. Pasteurization means to boil and kill all the live microbes.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
shelley wrote:
the real stuff has living microbes in it. Pasteurization means to boil and kill all the live microbes.


So I can use kefir from the marketplace? Question
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Certainly.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Secret Guest wrote:

Oh I already am eating a lot of vegetables, and broccoli, er actually broccolini.



Question : What is Broccolini?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
harmony wrote:
Question : What is Broccolini?


It's what happens when a cannelloni bean and a brocolli fall in love.



Just kidding Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
HA HA HA HA

Now I know you are messing with me! Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Invincible wrote:
harmony wrote:
Question : What is Broccolini?


It's what happens when a cannelloni bean and a brocolli fall in love.



Just kidding Laughing


lol incredibily corny. Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
shelley wrote:
Certainly.


that's great. because initially I was thinking that it cam from dairy and it's mucous forming etc etc. but I guess it's been kefirized (eh...), its alright. I'm gonna go get some now.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
One last question....



Can I get strawberry flavored? Confused
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