how can we consume calcium in a pill free manner wen we are told to cut down on choloesterol consumption?

Question

we are told to cut down on fat and cholesterol high foods!? but we still need to consume calcium! the biggest source of calcium is milk which is high in fat and cholesterol, i do not want to take other means of calcium so how do u do it? it is the same with nuts, hig in fat but contain omega 3 oil! just accept were all gona die and who cares how?

Answer 1

Eat spinach, spinach is high in Calcium and you can eat it in lots of ways, salads, soups, dips and so on.

Answer 2

Cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease. Unmanageable stress, or blocking your airflow (eg by smoking) causes heart disease. One of the side effects of stress is that you don't metabolise cholesterol as well. There are two types of cholesterol and one of them is an essential nutrient.
As long as you are eating a balanced healthy diet and not too much total fat, eat what you want.
But if you want to cut down on fat and make sure you get enough calcium, eat calcium rich foods with vitamin D as it helps you absorb more calcium. Vitamin C goes with iron.
Almonds, hazelnuts, tinned fish with the bones in, dark green leafy vegetables and broccoli, and oats are all rich in calcium. So is skimmed milk, but it's high in protein and used in weight gain formulas so don't overdo it.
Your bones will also absorb more calcium if you take regular excesses.

Answer 3

Milk is a very poor source of calcium. Although is has alot of calcium in it, milk is an acid neutralizer. Calcium, being an ion, requires certain acid dependent enzymes in your stomach in order to be absorbed. Milk turns off those enzymes by neutralizing the acid. The result is the calcium is not absorbed and simply passes through the digestive tract (note that the same happens to much of the protein in milk for similar reasons).

That's on of the reasons why osteoporosis is high in populations that drink alot of milk.

Osteoporosis is low in populations that eat alot of raw fruits and vegetables. One of the reasons why is calcium is abundant and very bioavailable in green leafy vegetables, particularly raw spinach.

Further, you completely misunderstand the relationships of cholesterol, fats and heart disease. Dietary cholesterol is mostly irrelevant. Blood cholesterol is not bad. It's the very low density lipoproteins that are bad. Processed vegetable oil and to a much lesser extent, fat from meat/milk/butter, cause your VLDL to rise. Omega 3 actually causes the High Density Lipoproteins to rise and these have a positive impact in the prevention of heart disease. Meats raised on a diet of grasses are a good source of omega 3 as is fish. Unfortunately, fish tend to be contaminated with heavy metals so consider using a pharmaceutical grade fish oil supplement instead. Natural vegetable oils like olive oil (also palm and coconut oil) and eating nuts, have a positive, not negative effect on cholesterol.

For that matter, it's oxidation of cholesterol via free radicals that is the culprit in heart disease. Don't eat garbage foods and maintain a healthy diet instead and you don't have to worry about this.

Go have an ultra-fast CT of your heart done. That test will tell you how much blockage you have in your coronary arteries and is fast, cheap, and non-invasive. Start having them sometime in your 30's and every few years afterward (talk to your cardiologist about this). Base your treatment plan around the results of this. If you have zero calcification and eat a healthy diet, don't worry about it. Depending on how much calcification you have, you might want to go on statin drugs (which have been proven recently to halt the progression of atherosclerosis or even reverse it). Unfortunately, they cause cancer, so they are to be used with respect as part of an all-inclusive, knowledge based treatment plan and not eaten like candy.

Quite frankly, these days, there is no reason for anyone to develop heart disease at all. It's effectively cured, if you start monitoring it and treating it now, as opposed to waiting for your first heart attack. Soon, even that won't matter because of the new, anti-oxidant drugs, and coated stents that make angioplasty safer and effective in treating block arteries (ie they have pretty much solved the restenosis issue).

Yeah....we are all going to die someday. But, by paying attention to these issues, you can get another 20 years of life and have a good quality of life, based on wise choices.

Answer 4

I had to cut out milk, cause of my high cholesterol, and just recently started taking calcium, and other suppliments, cause I was definitely feeling the bones ache. Glucosamine for the knees. How wierd, that when you go on a diet, is when the body starts to give way. Take suppliments. I had to.

Answer 5

Low fat cheese, like ricotta
Other low fat milk products like yogurt, buttermilk.
Canned fish (processed with heat) including tender bones
Shellfish
Amaranth seeds have really much calcium.
Beans, soya
Onions, dried apricots, pears, almonds, petersil leaves, Chinese cabbage, mustard leaves, apples
Boiled quail eggs eaten with shell

Also products enriched with calcium are available - orange juice, breads, soya milk, etc..

Answer 6

There are sets of rules for what it means when food is labeled organic. For meat, it generally means what the animal was fed. It has nothing to do with whether the animal was allowed to run around loose or how it was killed. There are differences in organic as well. Some people say their products are "organic" but there are other things that are actually "certified organic" by groups that inspect the farms and slaughterhouses. For meats, you will see the designations "natural," "pastured," "cage-free," "free-range," "sustainable" and "humanely-raised." There are others terms as well. Some of these are defined by the USDA and others are sort of Red Queen - it means what we say it means. Be skeptical. All of the animals are dead and dismembered when you buy them. You have to learn a lot about agriculture to know all the details and whether people are using terminology correctly when they describe the farming practices that got that animal to you. A lot of it is hype and marketing. The source of the video was suspect. It was intended to elicit exactly the response you had,. Farmers would be stupid to abuse animals that provide their income and slaughterhouses know that they are inspected constantly and cannot operate in that fashion. It is possible that the video was staged just as one was several years ago against Food Lion.

Answer 7

the imortant thimg with calcium is that you take it with vitman d as otherwise your body does not absorb it.

Small fish, anchovies / sardines are high in calcium - I know this as I am allergic to mik.

Answer 8

You can buy orange juice with calcium and you can also buy butter with extra calcium..Good Luck

Answer 9

drink nonfat milk, eat lowfat cottage cheese, lowfat yogurt for calcium and oj w calcium
for omega 3 eat fish

Answer 10

it depends what sort of fat tho,, nuts have fat in them, but the fat is the fat that destroys bad cholestorol. if you have skimmed milk it is low in fat but higher in calcium by weight that ordinary milk. calcium is in lots of green leafy vegetables anyway so you dont have to eat dairy products to consume it