July 11, 2011
You cannot really Choose Your Parents. You CAN choose to observe and be warned. Everyone inherits good and bad genes from their parents. If your parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents...
June 30, 2011
You want to take control of your own bone health destiny to avoid osteoporosis. You want to do it “naturally” without modern pharmaceuticals. That takes dedication and persistence on your part....
June 11, 2011
Yesterday I attended the Wisconsin Osteoporosis Symposium: “The Bare Bones of Osteoporosis Care”. This was an excellent overview of all aspects of diagnosis and treatment presented by by a dozen...
June 6, 2011
You want to take control of your own bone health destiny to avoid osteoporosis. You want to do it “naturally” without modern pharmaceuticals. This is often possible. It does take...
March 28, 2011
Calcium Supplements can be chewable chocolate and other flavors. You need to try these to see which brand tastes good to you. Some taste like a calcium tablet with some flavoring. Others...
March 14, 2011
Unless you eat a lot of salmon, or put yourself at high risk for skin cancer, you will need Vitamin D Supplements. Most Multiple Vitamins have 400 IU of vitamin...
March 5, 2011
Traditional foods high in Vitamin D include oily fish, seal blubber and cod liver oil. None of these are common in the American diet today. It is becoming much harder...
March 4, 2011
Speaking to groups about Osteoporosis is always interesting. Different persons have different questions. This week I spoke to a PEO chapter (a women-only “sorority”). One of the members was very...
February 28, 2011
A little vitamin D is added to milk. Drinking 3 glasses of milk daily nearly meets the old standard of 400 IU daily, but 16 glasses of milk – a...
February 15, 2011
The only way to be certain that you do not have a Vitamin D deficiency is to test for 25-hydroxy Vitamin D level. This is a blood test. The test...