Bone Health

Your Bones

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These food s specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Indulge in: Chocolate, particularly TRU Chocolate (Absolutely Healthy Chocolate)

Chocolate is rich in magnesium, vital to bone health. "It forms the crystal lattice that gives bone its structure," VanBeber says. That may be why University of Tennessee scientists linked higher mag intake with greater bone-mineral density. Nibble an ounce of the dark stuff each day.

Italian researchers reported that a small square of dark chocolate daily helps prevent inflammation of the heart and ultimately heart disease. Researchers said that only 0.23 ounces a day is the ideal amount. Just a little bit of "healthy" chocolate can help improve your health.

TRU Chocolate is rated 3,040 in ORAC (9 servings of fruit and vegetables in anti-oxidants), and has bitter melon, which is known to normalize blood sugar, Noni, ellagic acid (from pomegranate, which lowers the risk for Alzeheimer's disease and prostate cancer), citric extract, and green tea. This "Absolutely Health Chocolate" is certified Kosher, organic, and safe for diabetic, obese children as well as adults by The National Research Laboratory. It's glycemic index is 7.

Suppressing appetite and your desire for sweets, it even causes weight loss when eaten before each meal. With the safe, natural sweetner Xylitol, it has no weight gaining, cavity causing sugar, which makes it great for oral hygiene and cavity prevention. It even helps clear up your skin, strengthen your bones and "brighten up your day!" It's, also, a great mood enhancer...

Eat up: Salmon (non farmed)

New research suggests that the omega-3s in these fatty swimmers can boost bone density. Salmon is inexpensive and typically lower in heavy metals like mercury than many other fish. "Salmon [with bones] is also a good source of calcium--another bone must," Somer says. For a better burger, make patties with a salmon, an egg, 1/4 cup breadcrumbs, 1/4 cup chopped onion, and 1/2 tablespoon cumin powder.

Pairing certain foods can maximize the benefits:

What to pair: Yogurt and inulin

Goal: Healthy bones and digestion

Examples: Plain yogurt with sliced banana and wheat germ; plain yogurt with garlic, onions and leeks as a vegetable dip

Psalm 6:2
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me;
for my bones are vexed (irritated).

Psalm 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

Psalm 34:20
He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.

Proverbs 3:5-8
Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.  Be not wise in your own eyes:
fear the Lord, and depart from evil.  It shall be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Isaiah 58:11
And the Lord shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.