Osteoporosis Day / Bone Health Day = October 20, Aarogyam bhashkaradichchet / आरोग्यंभास्करादिच्छेत् – Part 2 /भाग 2

Few questions that we received From April 15^th, 2023 article :

Is there any food source for Vitamin D?

• There is no Reliable Food Source for Vitamin D. The only reliable source for Vitamin D is Sun’s Rays. Hence, Vitamin D is also called the Sunshine Vitamin 

 What about the Organic Oral Sources for Vitamin D?

• Organic Sources / Supplements is a long topic to discuss – however what is known is that Organic Food requires 40% more land than conventional farming. So, I am not really very sure how much in reality is Vitamin D available in True Organic Oral Form be it any kind of sources. Hence, we need to analyse few things before we buy so called Organic Products
  • Availability of Land vs total amount of food produced (which includes both plants and animals)
  • Total amount of food further classified into organic and inorganic food.
  • Further need to analyse – So claimed Organic food – vs its availability in the market – do the amount of products exceed the amount of Organic Food produced on this globe.
  • Also, do we breathe in Organic Air? We breathe 24 by 7, every moment – there is not a single moment that we stop breathing. So, we also need to analyse how much the so called organic food / supplements actually affect us positively

Hence, take a wise decision – before ending up paying much more may be about 40% more for so claimed ORGANIC FOODS

• Is it true that a Vegan Diet / Vegetarian Diet leads to Vitamin D and Calcium Deficiency over a Non vegetarian Diet?
  • This is absolutely false. Because availability of Vitamin D is only through sun’s rays and that too under specific conditions – which I will take up in my next article on June 17, 2023

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What we spoke in the article on April 15, 2023 – a Quick Snapshot

Besides Life-Style Issues and Incorrect Food Habits, taking supplements unnecessarily is also a reason for increase in various disease conditions. We did talk about pH of our blood last time and how alkalinity of foods creates positive effect when foods are alkaline and negative effects when foods are more acidic.

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Today we will see which foods should as per their alkalinity should be consumed more and which should be consumed less

As such most foods contain calcium moreover in less or more amount, however, the below-mentioned sources of foods have higher amount of calcium comparative to others.  We definitely require total of 20% of acidic food as well, hence the acidic foods also need to be included in our daily diet, but which ones and how much – please see the color coding

So lets understand about the high calcium foods that we learnt the last time.

Foods Rich in Calcium:

Those marked in yellow can constitute another 5% of your daily diet as they are more acidic. Those marked in red should constitute not more than 5% of the daily food – or may be just once in a week – as they are highly acidic and tend to destroy not only calcium but also other vitamins and minerals is our body due to high acidic content of theirs

Those marked in grey should constitute about 10% of your daily diet, they are acidic but less comparatively to those marked in yellow and red.

Those marked in light blue color are alkaline foods and for that matter all fruits and vegetables are highly alkaline in nature and should constitute 80% of your daily food. By eating these foods, calcium will not drain out of the bones

If we consume, foods as per their alkalinity (as mentioned above), the process of depletion of calcium and vitamin D will definitely slow down

Remember –Take Away

• Let more alkaline foods be a part of your daily diet.
• Try to include more of those foods which are marked in blue almost upto 80%, 10% of those marked in grey, 5% of those marked in yellow and those marked in red should be ideally not more than once in a week
• The foods that we eat daily contains sufficient amount of daily calcium requirement. hence it is not required to take calcium tablets separately, the only thing required is more alkaline foods – ie about 60% fruits, 20% vegetables, and 20% rest all the other things

Questions Invited: Please feel free to share your queries on dr.vidushi.agrawal@gmail.com (please be careful about the spelling in email id)– we will take question and answers in the next article on 3^rd Saturday of June 2023  ie June 17, 2023. Please send your queries by the 10^th of June 2023. You may choose to reveal your name or if not, let us know we will put as anonymous