more osteoporosis info

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This comes from a man who has been raw for about 15 years.........

Shari,

>Fresh juices contain virtually no minerals.

That's totally absurd! See Dr. Fuhrman's book "Eat to Live."

Or go here http://www.nat.uiuc.edu/mainnat.html and see if this database has mineral values for carrot juice. It probably won't have any others, cider maybe. Try comparing cider with steamed or baked apples! You need to calculate how many apples you need to juice to make so many ounces of cider, then figure out how to compare that with the same number of apples cooked.

THE FOLLOWING WAS POSTED TO A RAW LIST:

Your eating habit sound pretty healthy to me. I have be mostly vegan for about 6 months, only. In October of 2004 I was completely raw for about 2 weeks. During those two weeks my energy level was off the charts. I took myself off of three prescription medicines that I have been on for 10 years. Hypothyroidism, High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol. My energy level has been great (except for the past two days), My blood pressure is normal and since I have eaten virtually no animal products for six months, I know that my cholesterol has got to be improving.

By the way, I usually start each morning with a 16 ox glass of fresh carrot juice with an apple or a beet in it. Approximately 2 weeks ago, I got my eyes checked and my near sighted vision improved from -4 to -2.75. The DR was so amazed that he said he was going to eat more raw food.

Note it was the raw, "mineral-less" juice that produced the eye changes. Think cooked veggies would do that?

>I would be interested in hearing from knowledgeable raw foodists if osteoporosis is in fact a problem they need to watch out for and if so, what they do to prevent it.

It's a potential problem on any diet, including raw. You need plenty of vitamin D and load-bearing exercise if you want those bones to stay strong in addition to sufficient protein, calcium, phosphorus, and other minerals that go to make up bone. Look what happens to the NASA astronauts when they go up into space! Despite their attempts to keep in shape up there in weightlessness, they still lose muscle strength and bone density -- and that's on a cooked diet.

Cooked fooders just always try to rationalize what they are doing any way they can, whether it bears any relation to the truth or not.