- Speeding up the healing process and putting a stop to calcium loss from injury.
- Helping to prevent and treat osteoporosis.
- Helping treat or forestall bone diseases like rickets.
- Preventing stunted growth in children.
- Helping break up and carry away fats and fatty acids in your blood, as well as keeping your blood balanced.
- Working to keep your nerves from feeling frazzled, and your mind alert and sharp.
- Helping stimulate your glands to secrete hormones.
- Letting you digest two members of the B-vitamin family, riboflavin and niacin.
- Assuring transmission of impulses from one nerve to another.
- Giving you stable and plentiful energy.
- Forming the proteins that help all of us reproduce.
- May help block cancer.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
What Can Phosphorus Do for You?
Along with B vitamins, phosphorus is needed to extract energy from food, especially fats and starches. Aside from helping kidney function and heart regularity, some other benefits of phosphorus may include:
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Melissa is there any evidence that people in the US are phosphorus deficient?
ReplyDeleteAfter reading a report called What We Eat in America, which was released by the USDA-ARS in 2001-2002, Americans are more deficient in Vitamins E, C, A, D, Selenium, Potassium, and Magnesium than in Phosphorus. I think this occurs because of the fast food nation that has taken rise in America where companies use phosphorus additives, leavening agents, and flavor enhancers. According to Case Western Reserve University, "Unlike phosphorus that naturally occurs in meats, dairy products, whole grains, and nuts, phosphorus from additives is almost completely absorbed by the body". However, "Phosphorus control is necessary for dialysis patients so it is important for them to become aware of these additives and the foods that contain them".
ReplyDeletehttp://www.case.edu/med/ccrhd/phosfoods/
-mell
Could the reduced intakes of A and D also be because of the campaign against drinking milk? Magnesium, vitamin C, and E are found in leafy greens which most fast food lacks so you're probably right!
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ReplyDeleteI like your post, it is very informative. I did not really know anything about phosphorous. I think that it is cool that it helps to extract energy out of food. I didn't realize that it has effects on energy overall.
Good Post!
Question on phosphorus additives: even if they are absorbed by the body more than phosphorus from meats, are the additives as healthy? What about phosphoric acids and their role in bone health?
ReplyDeleteBecause of the fast food epidemic, I am not surprised that the article you read stated deficiencies in E, C, A, and D
According to Everyday Health "Are Food Additives Really Safe?", they noted that "While new additives must pass rigorous testing before approved, the 1958 Food Additives Amendment that set the stage for FDA approval of food additives stipulates that:
ReplyDelete* Certain food additives in use before 1958 and “believed to be safe” will not undergo further review. These include sodium nitrite and potassium nitrite, which are used to preserve lunch meats (and some are nonetheless questioned by consumer watchdog groups).
* Several hundred other food additives, including salt, sugar, spices, and baking soda — all used in cooking for centuries — are “generally recognized as safe (GRAS).”
* Before any other additive can be used in a product, the FDA will investigate the makeup of the additive, the amount the consumer will most likely ingest in a product, and possible short- and long-term health effects.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/101/food-safety/are-additives-bad-for-you.aspx
my thoughts on it are in accordance with Kathryn M. Kolasa, PhD, RD, professor and section head of nutrition education and sciences at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C-“If it’s a food you eat all the time, take time to read the label and decide whether it fits in your life,” says Kolasa. "Then, make sure you look again in six months, because it might change.”