PETA Asks Wisconsin Nuns To Go Vegan–Will It Affect Their Bone Health?
Written by Vegetarian Star on May 3rd, 2010 in Environment-Eco-Green, Food & Drink, Nutrition-Health-Fitness, Research + Science.
The Benedictine Women of Wisconsin are living in the greenest building in America after the ecumenical order’s new Holy Wisdom Monastery received the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest ever rating for sustainable construction.
Now, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the sisters to take reducing their carbon footprint even further by serving vegan meals at the monastery.
Hopefully, the sisters have forgotten about that naked Joanna Krupa and the cross ad for pet adoption that angered the Catholic League.
What’s cool is that the sisters should also know adopting such a diet may not have adverse affects on their bone health, according to a study discussed in Science Daily.
The study, published in Osteoporosis International, found the bone densities of 105 vegan post menopausal women who were Buddhists nuns were identical to non vegetarians despite their calcium intake being lower.
Of course, calcium can be easily supplemented by consuming soy or almond milk, orange juice with calcium or calcium rich vegetable foods like kale.
But more factors than calcium play a role in bone health, such as magnesium, present in green vegetables.
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