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The
scientific evidence
that calcium is the key to good and long health
is overwhelming. One does not have to be a rocket
scientist to read simple articles in reputable
newspapers, magazines and the doctors own journals
that are all saying that disease can be cured
by diet. Also one can simply look at the millions
of people around the world that never get sick
and say, “We also want to drink some milk
of the mountains”. Unfortunately, all of
the milk of the mountains is consumed as fast
as it is produced. However, the Japanese could
cure the world with their “milk of the
oceans” known as Coral
Calcium, the calcium factor of
good health. Coral
Calcium
In
chemistry, alkali solutions (pH over 7.0)
tend to absorb oxygen, while acids (pH under
7.0) tend to expel oxygen. For example, a mild
alkali can absorb over 100 times as much oxygen
as a mild acid. Therefore, when the body becomes
acidic by dropping below pH 7.0 (note: all body
fluids, except for stomach and urine, are supposed
to be mildly alkaline at pH 7.4), oxygen is
driven out of the body thereby, according to
Nobel Prize winner Otto
Warburg, inducing cancer. Stomach fluids
must remain acidic to digest food and urine
must remain acidic to remove wastes from the
body. Blood is the exception. Blood must always
remain at an alkaline pH 7.4 so that it can
retain its oxygen. When adequate mineral consumption
is in the diet, the blood is supplied the crucial
minerals required to maintain an alkaline pH
of 7.4. However when insufficient mineral consumption
is in the diet, the body is forced to rob Peter
(other body fluids) to pay Paul (the blood).
In doing so, it removes crucial minerals, such
as calcium, from the saliva, spinal fluids,
kidneys, liver, etc., in order to maintain the
blood at pH 7.4. This causes the demineralized
fluids and organs to become acidic and therefore
anaerobic, thus inducing not only cancer, but
a host of other degenerative diseases, such
as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, lupus,
etc..
Everyone knows that the human body is made up
of 78% water by weight, and that water is hydrogen
and oxygen gases. When nitrogen gas and carbon
in the form of carbon dioxide and methane gases
are added, the total gas in the body by weight
becomes over 95%. Almost half of the remaining
5% that makes up the human body and controls
all biological functions is the mineral calcium.
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Calcium
is one of the most important minerals that
the human body requires. It is necessary for
an enormous range of bodily functions and so,
as you would expect, if the human body is deficient
in it then it can lead to a wide range of health
problems. The following is but a shortlist of
of some of the problems that can be associated
with the lack of calcium.
Helps
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Cancer
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Diabetes
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Arthritis
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Heart
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Osteoporosis
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Eczema
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Alzheimer's
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High
Cholesterol
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Muscle
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Under
normal conditions, even while the amounts of
minerals fluctuate in the diet, your body is
able to maintain a narrow and rather delicate
balance of minerals, absorbing greater amounts
from your food or calling upon body stores when
levels are low and excreting more when levels
climb too high. But the presence of other nutrients
in the diet can affect the proper absorption
of some minerals. Vitamin D, for example, is
essential for the absorption of calcium.
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No
other mineral is capable of performing as
many biological functions as is calcium. Calcium
is involved in almost every biological function.
This amazing mineral provides the electrical
energy for the heart to beat and for all muscle
movement. It is the calcium ion that is responsible
for feeding every cell. It does this by latching
on to seven nutrient molecules and one water
molecule and pulls them through the nutrient
channel. It then detaches its load and returns
to repeat the process. Another important biological
job for calcium is DNA replication, which is
crucial for maintaining youth and a healthy
body. DNA replication is the basis for all body
repair and can only occur “on a substrate
of calcium”. Thus, low calcium means low
body repair and premature aging. As important
as all these and hundreds of other biological
functions of calcium are to human health, none
is more important than the job of pH control.
Calcium to acid, is like water to a fire. Calcium
quickly destroys oxygen robbing acid in the
body fluids. Thus, the more calcium, the more
oxygen, and therefore, the less cancer and other
degenerative disease.
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This information then begs the question, “How
much calcium is necessary ?” The answer
can readily be determined by examining the diet
of millions of people around the world who consume
over 100 times our Recommended Daily Allowance,
RDA, and who suffer the side effects of living
40 years longer than we do, of aging at half
the rate that we do, and of being devoid of
cancer, heart disease, mental disorders, diabetes,
arthritis and all other degenerative diseases.
Almost all of these people, the Armenians, Azerbaijans
and Georgians in Russian, the Tibetans, the
Hunzas of Northern Pakistan, the Vilcabamba
Indians in Ecuador, the Bamas in China and the
Titicacas in Peru live at high altitudes above
8000 feet. Their only source of water is melting
glaciers, and the glacial water is so turbid
and white with ground up rock that all of these
cultures call the water “milk of the mountains”.
Each quart of this water contains over 17,000
milligrams of calcium along with other minerals
and 60 trace metals. These cultures drink several
quarts each day and the water fertilized crops
are also loaded with calcium and other nutrients.
The only long living and disease free culture
that does not live above an altitude of 8000
feet, is the Okinawan’s.
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Can
Calcium Cure Cancer ?
In 1932 Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize
in Medicine for his discovery that cancer
was anaerobic: cancer occurs in the absence
of free oxygen As innocuous as this discovery
might seem, it is actually a startling and significant
finding worthy of a Nobel Prize. What it basically
means is that cancer is caused by a lack of
free oxygen in the body and therefore, whatever
causes this to occur is the cause of all cancers.
In the 1950s, Dr. Carl Reich M.D. discovered
that his patients were able to “cure themselves”
of almost all degenerative diseases by consuming
several times the RDA of calcium, magnesium,
vitamin-D and other nutrients. Dr. Reich was
the first North American doctor to prescribe
“mega doses” of minerals and vitamins
to his patients and is considered by many to
be the father of preventive medicine. By the
1980s Dr. Reich had cured thousands, but lost
his license for explaining that the consumption
of mineral nutrients, such as calcium, could
prevent cancer and a host of other diseases.
This concept was considered “too simple”
to accept by the medical wisdom of the day.
However, by the late 1990s, other medical men
of wisdom were also discovering that calcium
supplements could indeed reverse cancer.
In the October 13, 1998 issue of the
New York Times wrote an article appeared entitled
“Calcium Takes Its Place As a Superstar
of Nutrients” in which it reports
that a study published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association reported that “increasing
calcium induced normal development of the epithelia
cells and might also prevent cancer in such
organs as the breast, prostate and pancreas”.
It also reported that the American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition published “virtually
no major organ system escapes calcium’s
influence” and that a research team from
the University of Southern California found
“adding calcium to the diet lowered the
blood pressure in 110 black teenagers”
The January 14, 1999 issue of the Phoenix
Republic wrote in an article entitled
“Calcium Reduces Tumors” that
the New England Journal of Medicine reported
“adding calcium to the diet can keep you
from getting tumors in your large intestine”.
Then the February, 1999
issue of the Readers Digest wrote in
an article entitled “The ‘Superstar’
Nutrient” that the Journal of the American
Medical published “when the participants
consumption reached 1500 milligrams of calcium
a day, cell growth in the colon improved toward
normal (this means that the cancer was reversed)”.
The Digest also reported that the Metabolic
Bone Center at St. Lukes Hospital believes that
“a chronic deficiency of calcium is largely
responsible for premenstrual syndrome (PMS)”
and that “a lot of
women are avoiding the sun and their vitamin-D
levels may be very low”. In the
same article, the Digest reported that
“in 1997 the large federally financed trial
found that a diet containing 1200 milligrams
of calcium significantly lowered blood pressure
in adults”. Then the May 3, 1999
edition of US World News Report wrote in an
article entitled “Calcium’s Powerful
Mysterious Ways”, that, “Researchers
are increasingly finding that the humble mineral
calcium plays a major role in warding off major
illnesses from high blood pressure to colon
cancer” and that “You name the disease,
and calcium is beginning to have a place there”
(David McCarron, a nephrologist at Oregon Health
Sciences University). Unfortunately,
most doctors have not heard the news that their
own journals and major newspapers and magazines
are reporting that natural supplements, especially
calcium, can cure and prevent disease.
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Millions of Okinawans live in the southern
coral islands of Japan with the average life
expectancy of 105 years, while mainland
Japan is just 77 years. The Okinawans live on
islands made of coral reefs which are mainly
calcium. The Okinawans discovered over 500 years
ago that feeding coral sand that is produced
from the weathering of the reefs to the chickens
and cows results in twice as many eggs and twice
as much milk. They also found that when the
coral sand is used as a fertilizer, crops increase
by as much as three fold. When they finally,
500 years ago, began to consume the coral
sand themselves, all of the under
utilized doctors were forced to leave the islands.
This was known in Japanese history as the Japanese
Exodus.
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The early European explorers discovered
their secret and hauled shiploads of the calcium
rich coral sands back to Europe. In Madrid Spain,
the historic monument of the world’s first
drugstore contains rows of shelves labeled “coral
calcium from Okinawa Japan”.
Today millions of people all over the world
consume coral calcium, and as a result, there
are millions of medical testimonials.The phenomenon
of preventing and reversing degenerative disease
through the consumption of large amounts of
mineral and vitamins did not go un-noticed by
men of medicine. Hundreds of years ago European
doctors were prescribing coral calcium and other
nutrients to their patients.
Robert
Barefoot is the author of the books The
Calcium Factor and Death By Diet. These books
are in their fourth edition, have been translated
into several languages and are used by many
in the nutrition industry as “ the bibles
of nutrition”. These books take scientific
knowledge provided by some of the world’s
most renown scientists and tie it together into
one cohesive scientific argument that demonstrates
that nutritional deficiency is not only the
cause of disease, but that by correcting the
deficiency, disease can not only be prevented
, but also cured.
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