Worried about osteopenia? A holiday gift from NPR
If you've heard the term osteopenia, and especially if you happen to be one of the millions who've been ...
New IOM vitamin D recommendations — baby steps and missteps
You may have heard recently all the news stories that talked about the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) new ...
How do I know if I have a spinal fracture?
At the Center for Better Bones, I frequently see middle-aged women who have just received a bone density test and ...
How to change your fracture risk
Someone recently sent me a New York Times article I’d missed about the controversy over WHO’s FRAX tool. The ...
Another great reason to look at Vitamin D – it protects against flu!
There’s been so much information this fall about flu, particularly swine flu, that it’s hard to make sense of it ...
Bone and muscle: Lose them together, build them together
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These days, it seems like the media is full of folks talking about aging bone loss in women. ...
More support for the link between vegetables and good bone health
For years at the Center for Better Bones, we have been touting the bone-preserving benefits of a diet high in ...
Protein intake and fracture risk: A double-edged sword?
My Alkaline For Life® diet classifies protein foods as acid-forming, which makes many people wonder if a lower ...
A note about certain brands of packaged prunes
Some of my readers might be worried after hearing about a safety alert from the FDA regarding prunes and dried ...
Those scary osteoporosis statistics – are they for real?
Many of the clients we see at the Center for Better Bones come to us because they’re scared — especially the ...
A chat with National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) folks
At the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society for Bone Mineral Research, I had the opportunity to chat with ...
Forteo follow-up: Three reports of osteosarcoma using this drug
If you saw my earlier blog on the osteoporosis drug Forteo™, you will recall that the drug was found to ...
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