Comments on: Study: It’s The Low-Calorie Diets, Not The Low-Carb Ones That Lead To Bone Loss

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:10:00 +0000

Read the actual study again.

By: Petter Svarte

Petter Svarte — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:06:00 +0000

This study doesn’t contradict the theory that low carb diets are detrimental to bone health. It doesn’t actually say anything about low carb diets at all. What it’s inferring is that you should exercise while losing weight to stimulate new bone production.

By: Science4u1959

Science4u1959 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:55:00 +0000

Osteomalacia is deformation of the bone due to a lack of calcium and vitamin D or impaired absorption thereof. The bone doesn’t break but deforms due to non-mineralization. It is often referred to as “rickets” or “English desease” as it was quite common in Britain at the late 19th and early 20th century.

These days it’s fairly common in underdeveloped areas in Asia, especially in women – the result of consumption of overprocessed white rice and (non-voluntairy) low-fat dietary habits: they can’t afford healthy fats and meats, which leads to a lack of vitamin A, D, and calcium. That’s also why this condition is often observed in vegetarians.

Osteoporosis is brittleness of the skeletal bonestructure: the best prevention and remedy against this condition is a high-protein, high-fat diet, as bone density- and strength are known to increase on such diets.

By: Lady Atkins

Lady Atkins — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:49:00 +0000

What’s osteomalcia?

By: Lady Atkins

Lady Atkins — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:48:00 +0000

So a low-caloprie diet doesn’t lead to bone loss if exercise is involved. Interesting.

I do take a supplement because I eat very little dairy these days and am not meeting my calcium requirements through diet alone.

By: Science4u1959

Science4u1959 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:01:00 +0000

Precisely... low-fat milk is the worst choice one can make. Indeed the presence of adequate dietary fat is extremely important for the body to be able to absorb the nutrients.

In Australia they used to remove all fat from milk and they replaced it with vegetable oil... an even more disastrous approach.

The best and most healthy milk is REAL milk... that is raw, unpasturized, creamy full-fat milk. Unfortunately, only in California raw milk is legal, the rest of the states, in their magnificent stupidity, have outlawed it.