Bone Quote by Joel Fuhrman

Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the…

— Joel Fuhrman

While many processed foods are full of salt, and excessive salt intake is associated with hypertension and other conditions, salt is essential to health.…

— Harley Pasternak

“The same thing happens if you consume too much salt, which is easy to do in this day of high processed foods. Because your…

— Jenny Allan

Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however, the American diet contains dangerously high amounts…

— Joel Fuhrman

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

“In one study of ten countries,14 a higher consumption of calcium was associated with a higher—not lower—risk of bone fracture (Chart 10.3”

— T. Colin Campbell

Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of…

— Joel Fuhrman

“As for osteoporosis, it is caused not so much by calcium deficiency in the diet as it is by dietary factors which leach calcium…

— Daniel Reid

Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so…

— Joel Fuhrman

Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.

— Andrew Weil

“Fresh foods contain more potassium than sodium. In fact, if foods are unprocessed, they contain potassium that is 5 to 10 times more than…

— Daniel Adam

“We know today the calcium from plants can provide protection from fractures, while calcium derived from dairy products increases fracture risk. This is evident…

— Anonymous