Are you ready for winter?
These days you might be preparing for winter like I am — bringing in the firewood and lawn chairs, locating the ...
High calcium causing heart attacks? Vitamin K to the rescue!
You’ve likely heard the media furor around a recent finding that use of calcium supplements is associated with a ...
Can vitamin D compete with bone drugs?
At the Center for Better Bones, we are constantly thinking about fracture reduction and looking for data to help ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Parathyroid hormone and magnesium: when “normal” is not always a good thing
This week, I’m at the 2009 national meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research in Denver, ...
Update on prunes reversing bone loss
It is September 13, 2009, and I am at the largest U.S. meeting of bone researchers (the American Society for Bone ...
Vitamin D is more important than calcium
Recently, data from a study of 10,000 Americans supported once again our contention that vitamin D is more ...
Weak bones in vegetarians?
You might have seen the recent news headlines proclaiming that “Vegetarian Diet Weakens Bones.” This headline, ...
Prunes and osteoporosis: Your questions answered
My recent blog on the bone-building action of prunes drew a lot of attention and generated several interesting ...
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