Buddhist nuns deliver good news for vegans : thewest.com.au Healthy Bones – Plant Based Calcium study Further proof and scientific evidence that challenges the popular dietitian’s myth that we need cow’s milk for calcium to build healthy bones and maintain good bone density. This research further strengthens the vegans argument that plant based calcium is superior to that in non human milk as plants have supporting nutrients that help with the absorbtion and retention of calcium. This study shows that even with lower intakes of calcium vegans on simple plant based diets are able to have a bone density that equals those eating meat and dairy with higher levels of calcium. One theory by Danish scientists that explains this is that calcium may be needed to bind to and process excess saturated animal fat and thus is wasted, literally flushed away.

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