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Calcium and Cabbage

For many years I have advised against drinking pasteurized cow’s milk. The usual question that I get is: “But if I don’t drink milk, how will I get my calcium?” What most people fail to realize is that very few people can digest pasteurized milk well enough to get much calcium out of it anyway. There are many much better ways to get calcium.. For instance, cheese, green and yellow vegetables, nuts, eggs and fresh fruit are all good sources of calcium.

A very good source of calcium which is seldom heard about and is also very good for healing intestinal tract problems like Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Colitis and Gastric Reflux is CABBAGE. Shredded cabbage is rich in calcium, is a very good fiber food and the metanoic acid that it contains is very beneficial to the intestinal tract.

Cabbage juice and shredded cabbage have been used for decades to heal stomach ulcers and intestinal problems far faster than conventional treatment. If you have any such problems you might try one half cup of cabbage juice twice a day and a cup of shredded cabbage salad every day for a short period of time and just see what happens.

People are so aware of the need for calcium from all of the hype they hear from the companies that are profiting from the sale of questionable calcium products that they lose sight of the fact that most people probably have much less need for calcium than they do for magnesium which is much more of a universal mineral deficiency. Without Magnesium and Vitamin D all the calcium in the world cannot be utilized. Here’s to your good health.

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