dairy

http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,5033,s6-197-200-0-7143,00.htm l

check it out and get your dairy!!!

cool.   Nice to see they set up the whole experiment using the 500 calorie defecit as recommended for healthy weight loss.  So it's not so much of increasing the amount of dairy, but increasing you calcium. 

<3 Tums   =)   Think I'll have some now!

This seems a little suspicious to me.  Who funded the research?  A cup of broccoli contains as much calcium as a cup of milk.  American health officials recommend a daily intake of calcium much higher than the World Health Organisation yet osteoporosis is widespread in countries with high milk consumtion and rarer in countries where milk and other dairy products are not eaten so much.  Have a surf around the web, look at lots of different web-sites, (not just those of the dairy council), and make up your own mind.  Also, watch out for flavoured yogurts full of sugar or artificial sweetener.

Also, if you're taking Tums, you need to get out in the sunshine for Vitamin D to help absorb the calcium.  Kale or broccoli might be a better choice.

ARRG!   I hate the sun!  It burns!  where else can I find Vitamin D?  The library didn't list Vitamin D on it's nutrition page.   

I eat broccoli on occasion too, but not every day! 

I have to agree with bimerley there.  The researcher is funded by the National Dairy Council.  Also, I think there are many studies that show no link between weight loss and dairy consumption, but only 2, both by this researcher (again funded by the NDC), that show a positive linkage.

Remember there are no miracle solutions - that goes for food too.  Eating a variety of yummy colorful foods and calorie counting is the best way to a healthy diet.

If you go outside (i.e. walking to your car, etc) pretty much at all during the day - I think you are fine on the vitamin D.  You need only like 15 minutes of sun on exposed skin (hands and face are fine) to get your D for the day ;-)

Broccoli is wonderful!  I eat broccoli just about every day!

Ok, as long as the Vitamin D can get thru the suit of armor of SPF I wear!  Anything less than 45 is just lotion!

And therin lies a whole other debate.  Is sun on your skin really the danger it is made out to be.  No one argues that sun burn is bad for you, not to mention it hurts.  Breast and prostate cancers rates are highest in those with the lowest exposure to sun.  Sadly, statistics show that people with dark skin also suffer from higher cancer rates because they need longer exposure to sun to reap the same benefits.  Healthy amounts of Vitamin D, not too much, not too little reduce, these cancer rates.  I'm a firm believer that cancer rates are far more to do with what we eat.

I have accidentally been carrying out my own sun exposure experiments.  We recently moved to a house with a pool so I've suddenly started spending time out in the sun, but never before 2:00 pm because I don't want to burn.  The sun screens contain so many chemicals that I fear they do more harm than good so I only use them if I have to be out in the sun between 10:00 and 2:00.  Even so, baring my white tummy to the sun for the first time since my honeymoon 15 years ago was a shock.  In only ten minutes I got a really bad blistering burn.  (Aloe Vera fresh from the plant worked great).  My legs and shoulders which were tanned last year went brown immediately and there was no difference whatsoever to my arms or face.  My conclusions from this experiment and research on the web leads me to believe that a gradual build up of sun exposure, starting with as little as a minute at a time, will enable our skin to develop resistence to the sun, not to mention develop that healthy looking sun kissed glow. 

Being English I firmly believe in that old expression, 'Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun!'

apparently, you only need about 15 minutes of sun exposure for your body to absorb Vit D it needs for the day. Also, ALL dairy products by law also must contain Vit D (at least in Canada), so you should be okay.

ROFLMAO!   resistance to the sun? 

Really, I tried one year.  REALLY TRIED to get 'tan', and not burnt.   I started in May with a tanning package.  It was the smallest amount of minutes (not sessions) I could buy.   At the beginning of May I started tanning in a bed in hopes to have a 'base tan'  before the real summer sun came out.  Well as much sun as there is in Minnesota!   My first trip to the tanning bed, I didn't last 3 minutes in a 20 minute bed.   I was as red as a lobster.   It hurt, I peeled.  Red then white.  I repeated this every week.  I burned every time.   I tried to believe that I was lasting longer and not burning as bad each trip. 

I was RED all summer.   After every session I burned and peeled.   I went thru an entire gigantic bottle of aloe.      &nbs p; By September I stayed in a 20minute bed for almost 18 minutes.  I still burned.  Remember, I started in May.   I never did use all my minutes.  I think I had close to 100 left.  My whole summer was spent shedding skin like a lizard.

You won't catch me out in the summer heat without anything less than SPF 45.   I have a bottle that stays in my purse, a bottle that stays in each of my cars, and several others I have on hand just in case.  My makeup has SPF 20 in the liquid foundation, my moisturizers and lotions have SPF 15.

I hate the sticky green slime of aloe, and worse yet I hate sun burn.   There's no learning how to tan.   I don't believe in base tans.   Some are lucky they tan.  Others just don't.   Either way, baking yourself isn't good for your skin.  Love and protect it.  Don't cook it.