By: Avery Nelson

Avery Nelson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:45:48 +0000

osteoporosis is very common among the elderly, calcium and magnesium supplements help a lot in osteoporosis.:-*

By: Daniel Evans

Daniel Evans — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:35:43 +0000

Osteoporosis is very common specially in old persons. Food supplementation with calcium and magnesium helps a lot to slow down osteoporosis. -,”

By: Mojave

Mojave — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:30:48 +0000

I still have a friggy full of tofu products such as Morning Star sausages, corn dogs, burger patties, etc. However, very recently I have been reading that this typical kind of tofu has a high level of phyic acid which binds to minerals such as calcium, reducing one’s intake of the necessary mineral. I was quite taken aback. In fact, of all the legumes, soy has the highest level of phytic acid. However, fermented soy has very little. So now I am shopping only for fermented soy which comes in products such as tempheh, natto, and miso. These products are very popular in Japan. They take a little getting used to for a typical American. You can find them in health food stores in the US.
I’ve been a longtime customer of Morning Star which makes a host of tofu products –their sausages are so tasty even my male, meat eating Republican friends rave about them, so I sent Morning Star an email about my concern regarding phytic acid and calcium depletion as I am a female approaching my 50s and osteoporosis/calcium is a major issue for ladies in my group. I asked them to ask their researchers and also to let me know if they plan on starting to market fermented soy products. It’s been about two weeks and I’m disappointed to say they never answered my email. Usually companies get back to me within 72 hours.
This info has been researched widely and is pretty scarey. Unfermented tofu depletes other minerals as well such as magnesium and especially zinc which performs highly important functions in the body. Third world countries that have diets based on legumes can contribute some of their malnutrition to the phytic acid action if their major legume staples is soy.
Forgot to mention that the creator of the Zone Diet, which focused on upping protein and lowering carbs, did a special book for vegetarian–which I bought and followed for a while–however, virtually every damn recipe in the book uses unfermented tofu!
If you google soy and phytic acid, you’ll find many pages. Here’s just one spooky article:
http://www.mercola.com/article/soy/avoid_soy.htm

By: Josie

Josie — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:12:51 +0000

@Newbie Veggie … yes, great question. Absolutely! I will work on it. The more I talk to people the more I realize I need to start at the beginning … veganism 101 … how to get started step by step. I will start working on a series. Thanks for the idea!

By: Newbie Veggie

Newbie Veggie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:15:09 +0000

As a new vegetarian, I am having a difficult time obtaining the required daily intake of protein. Is there any way you could post a list of Vegetarian Protein Sources? That would be amazing!

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