Better Bones, Better Body: A Comprehensive Self-Help Program for Preventing, Halting and Overcoming Osteoporosis

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Summary: Loads of great information
Review: A great book on understanding, preventing and overcoming osteoporosis. The information presented here is not just relevant to osteoporosis, but to general good health. One of the best health books that I have read.

Rating:
Summary: Loads of great information
Review: A great book on understanding, preventing and overcoming osteoporosis. The information presented here is not just relevant to osteoporosis, but to general good health. One of the best health books that I have read.

Rating:
Summary: Better Bones, Better Body
Review: Good bone health requires more than drinking lots of milk or taking calcium supplements. Dr. Susan E. Brown explains it all in her book, Better Bones, Better Body, a "comprehensive self-help program for preventing, halting and overcoming osteoporosis."

A medical anthropologist and certified nutritionist, Dr. Brown currently directs the Osteoporosis Project and the Nutrition Education and Consulting Service. She says that osteoporosis is a "needless disorder [that] barely exists in much of the world." It is "a disease of Western civilization created by our lifestyles." Because it's a disease we have created, it is one we can eliminate.

Dr. Brown says her extensive research enables her to say that "I now know that osteoporosis is preventable and that it can be halted once begun. I also know that it is to some degree reversible." Her book details precisely what causes osteoporosis and how to prevent its development.

Although many of us think of bone as being something that is solid and unchanging, it is actually living tissue. Old bone tissue is constantly being dissolved and replaced with new bone. Dr. Brown says that "every atom in our skeleton is replaced within a three-month period." While calcium is certainly a key player in building new bones, it doesn't work alone. At least 17 other nutrients are needed. The standard American diet either doesn't provide those nutrients, or provides them in inadequate quantities. Not only are most Americans slighted on the essential nutrients, they consume too much animal protein. Calcium is actually withdrawn from bone tissue in order to metabolize protein, which contributes to the development of osteoporosis.

Dr. Brown explains how to evaluate your personal risk of developing osteoporosis. She offers hope when she says "it is never too late to begin building healthy bone. Even the aged confined to wheelchairs have been able to build bone mass with simple exercises and modest nutritional supplementation." Dr. Brown then provides comprehensive instructions for individualizing a program to suit your needs. The basics of osteoporosis prevention and reversal are sound nutritional practices and regular strength-building exercise. Dr. Brown offers guidelines and examples for making those basics a part of your lifestyle.

Not only is Better Bones, Better Health a must-read for every Western woman, it's also essential for men and adolescents. Buy a copy for yourself, and extras for your loved ones--help banish this unnecessary disease from your life and theirs.

Rating:
Summary: Better Bones, Better Body
Review: Good bone health requires more than drinking lots of milk or taking calcium supplements. Dr. Susan E. Brown explains it all in her book, Better Bones, Better Body, a "comprehensive self-help program for preventing, halting and overcoming osteoporosis."

A medical anthropologist and certified nutritionist, Dr. Brown currently directs the Osteoporosis Project and the Nutrition Education and Consulting Service. She says that osteoporosis is a "needless disorder [that] barely exists in much of the world." It is "a disease of Western civilization created by our lifestyles." Because it's a disease we have created, it is one we can eliminate.

Dr. Brown says her extensive research enables her to say that "I now know that osteoporosis is preventable and that it can be halted once begun. I also know that it is to some degree reversible." Her book details precisely what causes osteoporosis and how to prevent its development.

Although many of us think of bone as being something that is solid and unchanging, it is actually living tissue. Old bone tissue is constantly being dissolved and replaced with new bone. Dr. Brown says that "every atom in our skeleton is replaced within a three-month period." While calcium is certainly a key player in building new bones, it doesn't work alone. At least 17 other nutrients are needed. The standard American diet either doesn't provide those nutrients, or provides them in inadequate quantities. Not only are most Americans slighted on the essential nutrients, they consume too much animal protein. Calcium is actually withdrawn from bone tissue in order to metabolize protein, which contributes to the development of osteoporosis.

Dr. Brown explains how to evaluate your personal risk of developing osteoporosis. She offers hope when she says "it is never too late to begin building healthy bone. Even the aged confined to wheelchairs have been able to build bone mass with simple exercises and modest nutritional supplementation." Dr. Brown then provides comprehensive instructions for individualizing a program to suit your needs. The basics of osteoporosis prevention and reversal are sound nutritional practices and regular strength-building exercise. Dr. Brown offers guidelines and examples for making those basics a part of your lifestyle.

Not only is Better Bones, Better Health a must-read for every Western woman, it's also essential for men and adolescents. Buy a copy for yourself, and extras for your loved ones--help banish this unnecessary disease from your life and theirs.

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Summary: better bones better body
Review: this book is showing the reader the real non-nonsense about osteoporosis, and explain a very wide range of the bone nutrition and metabolism that helping to the bones to recharge themselves naturaly.this book is also shows how other nations and some rare populations feed themselves, and howcome these populations dont have problems with their bones after menopause. since that author is a nutritionist and also an anthropologist, sow she is having the ability, together with her expirience(that is combined with other world's authorities in osteoporosis)to share with you(the readers)the real scientific approach to a better bones better body. are you interested in how the author do it?,and what other tips she gives in that remarkable book,buy it!.