Fw: [ossg-hungry] Beverage Questions

[Guest guest]

This was an email from ossg-hungry group and Amber gave me permission to

copy and paste here to you guys about caffeine, etc. I thought it was

important to know these things.....Ray is a fella who has a vitamin company

and always seems to think he knows everything and knows it all even about

the DSers! He seems to think caffine is ok.....

Anyway, here it is.........

Judie

> Ray, you need to supplement calcium but you are counter productive if

> caffeine is causing it to leave your bones as fast as you lay it down. I

> have been an RN Case Manager for almost 15 years and an RN for almost 25,

I

> specialize in orthopedic injuries and the first thing the patient is told

if

> they have a beginning osteopenia, or a fracture for that matter is to stop

> caffeine. I didnt believe it after wls and figured I had given up enough

and

> was going to drink my 2 cups of coffee

> a day. Within a year I had developed osteopenia. Many of the post wls

> patients on the grad list have developed osteoporosis. The first thing the

> endocrinologist tells you is no more caffeine, so " maintaining calcium

> supplementation " is not the answer to avoiding a disease that kills many

> eventually.

>

> Amber

>

[Guest guest]

Another one from Amber:

> >From my professional research, and from what I have been told by

physicians

> specializing in orthopaedics, endocrinology, sports medicine and

> rehabilitation, and gynecology - apparently so!! Being a devout cynic, I

> still had my doubts until my sweetie was diagnosed with osteopenia too-

now

> this is a 58 year old man who is in great shape physically, does sit ups

> and push ups daily, rides a bike, cuts our grass (1/4 acre) with a

standard

> push mower every 7-10 days and avoids carbs and other " bad " things like

the

> plague. His weight never varies more than 10#s and he has a 36 " waist at

6'

> tall. His only vice - coffee. Maybe 4-5 cups a day!! I am no longer a

cynic,

> I am a believer - and we are now a decaf family. And yes, osteoporosis is

> VERY SCARY!!!!! The dowager's hump doesnt frighten me, the chronic

> intractable pain and the disabling fractures do. And by the way - caffeine

> is in other products we need to avoid like coke, some teas, chocolate (non

> of us eath that I am sure LOL) etc. Osteopenia is VERY DIFFICULT to turn

> around. I have always been a very high calcium eater - lots of milk,

cheese

> etc., so I was very surprised. And by the way - a bone calcium reading of

> your heel is not good enough for us. Mine came back OK but the dexa scan

> done two weeks later showed the osteo. The dexa scan is the gold standard

> when it comes to calcium demineralization. And while I am on the subject,

> you can have osteopenia or osteoporosis and IT DOES NOT SHOW UP ON YOUR

> BLOOD WORK-UP. My serum calcium was fine (not a surprise, it was pulling

the

> calcium from the bone to keep it normal). My PCP refused to order a dexa

> scan because my serum calcium was fine - thank heaven my GYN was more

aware.

> Amber/FL

>

> Re: [ossg-hungry] Beverage Questions

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>

> Are you saying that drinking 2 cups of coffee a day is directly related to

> getting osteoporosis? If so, I'm a very likely candidate....thats scary!

>

> Kimmee

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