Importance of Calcium In Your Diet

Calcium is primarily known as the bone builder or “the knitter” because of it’s influence on healing not only of broken bones but of wounds, lesions, and disease damage in the body. Dr. Bernard Jensen’s book, “Guide to Body Chemistry & Nutrition” devotes some pages on the benefits of a high calcium diet:

·          Besides building bones, calcium is a very important electrolyte, which is needed by several enzymes and hormones. As an electrolyte, it is involve with nerve transmission, water balance, acid/alkaline balance, and maintaining osmotic pressure.

·         Calcium is necessary for blood to clot and for heart muscle to function.

·         Calcium helps maintain normal blood pressure and reduce the risk of colon cancer.

·         Prevents osteoporosis. A double-blind experiment at the University of California at San Diego, using a daily supplement of 1,000 milligrams of calcium citrate, 15 milligrams of zinc, 5 milligrams of manganese, and 2.5 milligrams of copper showed that osteoporosis could be reversed in older women, without exercise and without estrogen, at the rate of 1.5 percent yearly (The Journal of Nutrition, 124(7), July 1994).

Best calcium foods according to Dr. Jensen  : milk, yogurt, cheese, goats milk, soy milk, canned salmon, canned sardines, steamed leafy greens (kale, spinach, dandelion, mustard), broccoli, tofu, figs, legumes, and raw nuts and seeds.