Vegan Mofo Day11 - Focus on a Nutirent - Calcium
Back to my original theme today which was Carol Vorderman - Accidental Vegan Hero, blogging about recipes from a series of Detox Recipe books that the television presenter and maths whizz put out with nutritionist Anita Bean in the noughties . Just before Christmas last year I managed to fracture my heel. It took two months of pain and an MRI scan to diagnose it. As I didn't really know how I'd done it apart from maybe the repeated impact of doing some exercise DVDs at home I got sent for a bone scan. The results came back saying that my bone density was classed as Osteopenia. This wasn't a total surprise as I took part in a study at Bristol Vegan Fayre years ago when I was newly vegan that said my density was lower that average and without going into loads of details my bodytype and other factors make me a classic case for it. The good news is that it doesn't automatically mean that I will develop osteoporosis but I do need to work on preventing it, w...