Comments on: Milk—It Does a (Baby Cow's) Body Good https://www.nomeatathlete.com/milk/ Plant Based Diet for Athletes Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:28:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Tams https://www.nomeatathlete.com/milk/#comment-169979 Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:28:49 +0000 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/?p=10106#comment-169979 This doesn’t undermine the main message of your post, but I just wanted to point out a misunderstanding. Where you say
“According to their study sourced, principal influences on bone mass are genetics, hormonal structure, mechanical loading and calcium intake. That means the only factor you have control over is calcium intake.”
We are also in control of mechanical loading. Mechanical loading can be increased by things like weight bearing exercise and jogging – good news to the readership here! Like building and maintaining muscle, if you don’t use bone you lose it. Part of the reason US American women get so many fractures is lack of physical activity. Its a real issue that so many women fall out of sports etc when they are teens and never come back to it (those of us reading this probably not in that group of course). No amount of calcium, from whatever source, will help if you don’t mechanically load your bones through exercise as it signals your bone to rebuild and repair. Papua New Guinean women, as a population, do not have our sedentary lifestyle, and most hip fractures occur in women in old age, which we in the ‘west’ are privileged to attain more often.

]]> By: Alex https://www.nomeatathlete.com/milk/#comment-30839 Sat, 26 Jan 2019 13:02:12 +0000 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/?p=10106#comment-30839 In reply to Alex.

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Apologies for my verb tense malfunction.

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