Here is a simple food that supposedly has a lot of health benefits: ginger miso broth. I saw it at Trader Joe's, bought a carton and finally tried it this week. It's quite tasty, even plain. Several articles popped up in a web search for health benefits of miso. It's made from fermented soy, so it provides probiotics, similar to those found in yogurt, kefir and sourkraut. For those who cannot tolerate dairy, miso is a good alternative source of probiotics.
Regarding effects on bone density, miso has an alkalizing effect and the soy can act like estrogen in the body. According to one article, miso also has a variety of bone-building minerals, including calcium, magnesium, manganese and selenium, as well as Vitamin K, which helps the body absorb calcium.
A second bone-building tip for the week comes from my experience with a walking program through my workplace where we try to log between 6,000 and 10,000 steps a day on our pedometers. At the end of the day, when I'm just short about 500 or 600 steps, i go down to our finished basement where the CD player is and play two 4-minute workout songs. It's so much fun to dance to the music that I can get a good 8-minute workout, log all the necessary steps, and make it a bone-building routine by hopping and jumping a bit with the dancing. Sometimes all we have time for is a very short burst of exercise in a day, but it adds up.
Regarding effects on bone density, miso has an alkalizing effect and the soy can act like estrogen in the body. According to one article, miso also has a variety of bone-building minerals, including calcium, magnesium, manganese and selenium, as well as Vitamin K, which helps the body absorb calcium.
A second bone-building tip for the week comes from my experience with a walking program through my workplace where we try to log between 6,000 and 10,000 steps a day on our pedometers. At the end of the day, when I'm just short about 500 or 600 steps, i go down to our finished basement where the CD player is and play two 4-minute workout songs. It's so much fun to dance to the music that I can get a good 8-minute workout, log all the necessary steps, and make it a bone-building routine by hopping and jumping a bit with the dancing. Sometimes all we have time for is a very short burst of exercise in a day, but it adds up.
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