![]() ![]() It is then boiled to evaporate the water producing syrup with the characteristic flavor and color of maple syrup and sugar content of 60%.” I have never actually done that, but I read Little House in the Big Woods so many times as a child…so I feel like I have! □Īccording to World's Healthiest Foods, “the sap is clear and almost tasteless and very low in sugar content when it is first tapped. In my mind, I have images of some frosty morning, gathering the sap and making the syrup. We all know, somewhere in the back of our brains, that maple syrup comes from maple sap from maple trees. They aren't real maple syrup folks! They are a combo of high fructose corn syrup, fake colors and artificial flavors…essentially poison, in my opinion! It got me to thinking how many people aren't really aware that most of these syrups that are sold at the store are NOT maple syrup at all! It is shocking to me because nowhere on the label do these products say ‘maple syrup' but most consumers do not know the difference. It has been years since I have bought that stuff, so I took a moment to read the ingredient label. It was expired, but I was going to toss it anyway. In the back of the refrigerator, I found 2 mostly empty bottles of Log Cabin syrup. I even found boxes of lime jello that expired in 2004 (I would have tossed those expired or not!) You know those mystery mustards, oils, random canned items. We took some time to clean out the refrigerator and pantry….Nothing was rotten, just tossing things that had expired, dressings that were mostly empty, etc. Last summer, my husband, daughter and I were staying at a mountain cabin we share with other family members. This post has been rattling around in my head for almost a year! But as celiacs especially, pills have their place - but smaller doses taken more frequently and with food is still the ticket.Īlso, if you're on prescription medication, speak to your pharmacist before planning your calcium supplementation routine because some pills have to be spaced far apart from any doses of calcium to avoid interactions that could severely impact how much of your medication you absorb.I may receive a commission if you purchase something mentioned on this page. Our gut - especially a celiac one - struggles with the "huge dose of nutrients all at once" approach, which is one of the many reasons you always hear that it's better to get nutrition from food than from pills. Our bodies are used to digesting snacks and meals, not compacted pellets of minerals. KK is also correct that taking smaller doses of calcium more frequently (and always with food) is better for absorption. Chicken breast is one of the few foods that is 1) common in a Western diet, 2) a source of vitamin K2, and 3) something that isn't out of favour with nutritionists for other reasons! Very few people get adequate K2 without supplements because it's often found either in foods uncommon in the western diet (like the incredibly pungent Japanese dish called nattō, or the Eastern european drinkable yogurt called kefir), or in foods that doctors have traditionally told people to eat less of for other health reasons (gouda, blue cheese, chicken liver, egg yolks). I'm considered a cutting-edge outlier just for having it on my radar and telling people to make sure they get enough. They still barely touch on it in guidelines - Japan and Scandinavia are leading the way and North America is far behind. When I studied Family Medicine, they didn't even have any recommendations surrounding it. K2 in particular is a relatively recent discovery, and seems to be vital in "directing" calcium away from soft tissues and into bones. ![]() ![]() What we saw when we started giving everyone high doses of calcium without vitamins D and K2 was that they deposited that calcium everywhere but their bones - heart valves, blood vessels, tendons and other soft tissues. Magnesium bisglycinate, sometimes just labeled "glycinate" (same molecule) is much more easily absorbed than the inorganic forms like magnesium oxide and I recommend bisglycinate to nearly everyone, celiac or not.Īs KK already said, vitamins D and K (specifically K2) are also essential for proper metabolism of calcium. Calcium and magnesium are a balancing act and most people get too little of both. ![]()
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