What Doctors Don't Tell YouYou say that depression may reduce bone density in women (WDDTY vol 7, no 10). ...
Telling our children to drink their milk so that they ‘grow big and strong’ may have no truth in it whatsoever.
Doctors who encourage women to take calcium supplements to prevent brittle bones in middle age may be missing the point. ...
Q:Are there any alternative ways to treat or prevent kidney stones from recurring? D W, New Haven, Connecticut....... ...
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Two years ago, I had a bone densitometry test, which showed osteoporosis in the left hip. My doctor prescribed Fosamax and a calcium supplement. Thanks to your newsletter, I didn’t take the Fosamax. Instead, I took calcium, magnesium and boron...
Organic vegetables and fruits are usually better, but may not be treasure troves of necessary minerals either. Organic means that no poisonous or commercial fertiliser
Getting dirty to stay healthy is a foreign notion to many of us - and eating dirt to stay healthy even more so. While it may seem primitive, eating earth (geophagy) is a universal phenomenon even today.
Chemistry researchers R.A. McCance and E.M. Widowson were commissioned by the Medical Research Council to produce a report entitled the ‘Chemical Composition of Food’ in 1940.
