What Doctors Don't Tell YouA study from the Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, New Zealand, is the latest to demonstrate that taking calcium can slow or prevent osteoporosis. ...
HRT diehards continue to effuse over the long-term benefits of HRT, but the latest evidence shows that long-term hormones offer a greater risk of dying early from cancer or stroke. As little as 10 years ago, it was considered heresy to criticise the...
Women with low bone density after menopause can slow or prevent osteoporosis by a combination of exercise and calcium supplementation to an acceptable degree without the side effects of hormone re ...
Osteoporosis is a progressive reduction of bone density, which makes the skeleton gradually ever more brittle. Although we know the many risk factors a small frame, an early menopause, or the use ...
The concept of osteoporosis as a menopausal disease did not exist before the 1970s. Before that time, osteoporosis was simply a disease of old age in some vulnerable individuals, male and female.
* Eat the right foods. Eating foods rich in phytoestrogens can allieviate menopausal symptoms. All pulses, tofu and whole soy products (avoid soy protein isolates), nuts, flaxseed and other seeds, grains (rice, oats, wheat, barley, rye),
Fluoride in the water supply actually increases the risk of hip fracture among the elderly, a seven year study among the over 65s of Utah has discovered. ...
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...
A recent report further cripples the last vestiges of support for hormone replacement therapy as a must-have treatment for menopause.
