Nourish your bones and joints with wholesome plant foods

For women past 40, health issues like osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and muscle weakness often become a growing concern.

Many people turn to common approaches such as:

1. Drinking cow’s milk
2. Taking calcium pills
3. Taking glucosamine supplements
4. Consuming cartilage dishes or collagen drinks

However, these are not ideal nor truly healthy solutions for long-term bone and muscle care. In fact, they may bring hidden harm:

• Cow’s milk – can actually cause calcium to leach from the bones and increase osteoporosis risk. It also contributes to chronic inflammation.
• Calcium pills – may raise the risk of heart disease, kidney stones, and colon polyps.
• Glucosamine pills – could increase insulin resistance and heighten diabetes risk.
• Collagen drinks/cartilage dishes – animal collagen or cartilage cannot directly replace or rebuild human collagen or cartilage.

That’s why it’s important for women to re-think bone and muscle health beyond these conventional methods — and explore safer, more effective approaches that truly support long-term strength and mobility.

In fact, mother nature already provides the essential nutrients needed to protect and strengthen our bones and muscles — through wholesome plant foods.

Here are some:

Wholesome Soy – naturally rich in protein and calcium, helping to strengthen both muscles and bones. 
Look at the below chart, in fact, soybean has more calcium compared to cows milk. 

Plant foods rich in glutamine – such as brown algae, alfalfa, ginger, spinach, parsley, acerola cherry, and cactus. Glutamine helps stimulate the body’s own production of glucosamine, which is then converted into glycosaminoglycans — the key building blocks of cartilage.

Black Goji Berries – packed with anthocyanins, which not only promote bone health but also support bone formation and help prevent osteoporosis.

To make these powerful plant foods easily accessible in daily life, NI Foods offers great convenience with:

• SOYPRO – made from wholesome soy and Jilin ginseng.
• GojiGarden Series – combining black goji berries with rose/ yuzu/ osmanthus.
• GojiGarden Coffee – a unique blend of premium coffee beans with black goji berries.
• G-ART - made of brown algae, alfalfa, ginger, spinach, parsley, acerola cherry, and cactus.

With the right nourishment from nature, women can safeguard their bones and muscles while staying healthy, strong, and active well beyond 40.

Welcome to contact me via Whatsapp +65-9090 9942 to find out more. 

Best Regards, 
Joselyne 

Excellence Lifestyle Coach

+65-9090 9942

Superfoods helps in Self-production of Glucosamine

1.  Brown Algae

• Rich in Glutamine - which combines with glucose to form glucosamine
• Rich in chlorophyll - reduce pain of inflammatory arthritis, retain calcium and other minerals 
• Contains magnesium - to stronger bones
• Contains phytoestrogen to increase bone density and collagen
• Contains Vitamin K to speed up healing of fractures
• Contains Fucoidan (a polysaccharide) to improve bone marrow cell survival, increase white blood cell production
• Contains Fucoxanthin (a phytochemical) to helo support bone health, induces death of osteoclasts (bone cells that break down bones)

2.  Ginger

• Highly effective for rheumatism, according to reports in China
• Experienced greater reduction of knee pain, according to a study in the US on 247 osteoarthritis patients who took a standardised and highly concentrated ginger extract twice daily
• Reduces inflammation in joints
• Rich in minerals, including calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium
• Rich in Manganese - help produce new blood cells in bone marrow, vital for correct structure of cartilage, tendons, teeth and bones. 

3. Alfafa

• Rich in Chlorophyll, protein, beta-carotene, vitamin K
• Vitamin K needed for bone formation
• Help suppress the production of pro-inflammation cytokines and relieve inflammation

4. Parsley

• Rich in Glutamine, Chlorophyll, iron, potassium, zinc, folate, vitamins A, B, C and K. 
• A 100g servings of parsley provides 2050% of the vitamin K and 222% of the vitamin C an adult needs daily - more than twice the vitamin C in orange juice
• Rich in bioavailable calcium and boron
• Boron aids metabolism of calcium and promote bone strength
• Rich in antioxidants - boost immune function and maintain normal bone density.
• Helps lower the uric acid levels 

5. Acelora Cherry

• Rich in vitamin C - concentrated sources of natural vitamin C with 1677mg of Vitamin C in every 100g -> providing a whopping 2796% of the body's daily vitamin C requirement. 
• Vitamin C in Acelora Cherry is 1.63 times more bioavailable than synthetically produced vitamin C. 
• Prevent inflammatory polyarthritis (affecting 5 or more joints at once) - people with the lowest intake of dietary vitamin C found in fruits and vegetables had more than 3 times the risk of getting this disease 

6. Spinach

• Rich in Glutamine and Vitamin K
• Supports bone health with chlorophyll, magnesium, manganese, calcium and Vitamin C.
• Vitamin K is important for bone health as low Vitamin K intake was related to low bone mineral density in women, according to a study on 1112 men and 1479 women aged 50-68. 
• 100 g of spinach provides 604% of an adult's daily vitamin K requirement. 

7. Cactus 

• Rich in antioxidants that can help prevent cartilage loss. 
• Enhance body's production of collage and glycosaminoglycans.
• Phytochemicals in cactus - aid wound healing, accelerate tissue regeneration, speed up collagen formation and new blood vessels' growth. 

Hope the above helps all to select super foods on your daily diet to protect your joint health! 

As a convenience, 

Wholesome Food G-ART gives the above joint and bone-beneficial nutrients made of the above super foods! 

Effectiveness of G-ART
http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2014/08/testimonial-on-joint-pain.html


Together, we live a healthier lifestyle! 

Warmest Regards, 
Joselyne
+65-90909942
Nutritional Immunology Consultant 

How to Choose Glucosamine supplements?

Why NOT I get Glucosamine pills for my parents?

1. There is also an article about glucosamine and chondroitin from The Straits Times dated 18-Sep-2010. 

Please see below:

• "Glucosamine and chondroitin, two supplements taken by millions of people around the world for joint pain, DO NOT work, says a study of Swiss scientists."

• "Compared with placebo, glucosamine, chondroitin and their combination DO NOT reduce joint pain or have an impact on narrowing of joint space."

2. Also, click the below link which tells new research has revealed that high doses and extended use of the popular dietary supplement glucosamine can kill off pancreatic cells .

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2010/Oct/link-found-between-glucosamine-and-risk-of-diabetes-93721404.html

3. The below table explains clearly on the SOURCES of most of the glucosamine supplements in the market:

• Animal -> Shells of crabs, lobsters, shrimps
• Man-Made -> chemicals

4. What are the dangers of these glucosamine tablets?

Be A Wise Consumer

Are your parents taking such glucosamine pills? 

Please help them check the ingredient label. 

Some products may be marketed as plant glucosamine product, do note that it may only mean it's shellfish-free glucosamine products, the main ingredient of non-animal glucosamine is the lab-made glucosamine: Glucosamine Hydrochloride/ Glucosamine Sulfate/ Condroitin Sulfate.

Don't risk our parents' health especially after we learn about the possible side effects from these chemically synthesized glucosamine pills.

How to have a better and safer solution to joint health? 

It's always wiser to get the nutrients required for joint health through wholesome plant foods as they are natural and wouldn't give us any side effects.

• Do you know that our human body can self-make glucosamine from glucose and glutamine? We don't have to rely on replacement glucosamine pills.

See the below chart:

•  By consuming plant food rich in glutamine and antioxidants, this will provide the body with material to self-produce glucosamine, hence prevent or delay the effects of arthritis!! 

• Check out what plants rich in glutamine and antioxidants!
• Plant sources rich in glutamine: Brown algae, Parsley and Spinach
• Plant sources rich in antioxidants: Acerola cherry, Parsley, Spinach and Cactus
• More info of these super foods:

http://healthywholesomefood.blogspot.sg/2013/08/get-glucosamine-production-from.html

Warmest Regards,
Joselyne
90909942