Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones

Colbin, Annemarie

• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Year: 1010
• eBook ISBN: 9781608825899
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: General Health

It''s essential to maintain strong bones to keep an active lifestyle, but aside from taking a daily calcium supplement, is there really anything you can do to improve your bone health? With this complete program for stronger bones created by health educator Annemarie Colbin, you''ll learn the best foods to eat to build bone mass and find out which foods actually weaken bones. In The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones, you''ll also discover how exercise and finding personal balance can improve your health and prevent fragility fractures, menopause-related bone loss, and osteoporosis.Learn:

•What puts you at risk for bone fracture
•Why medication and estrogen therapy may not work for you
•How the nutrients in whole foods build bone mass
•85 easy recipes that maximize the bone-building effects of whole foods

Table of contents

• Contents
• Recipes
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Understanding Your Bones
• Chapter 1 Philosophy of Nutrition: Setting Up the Point of View
• Chapter 2 Osteoporosis or Fractures? Defining the Problem
• Chapter 3 More Than Calcium: What Bones Need to Be Healthy
• Chapter 4 What Weakens Our Bones? It’s More Than Menopause
• Chapter 5 Standard Suggestions for Strengthening Bones: Some That Work and Some That Don’t
• Caring for Your Bones
• Chapter 6 The Whole Foods Approach: How Diet Can Promote Healthy Bones
• Chapter 7 Movement and Exercise: An Important Part of the Program
• Chapter 8 The Spiritual Aspect: Strength from Within
• Chapter 9 Putting It All Together: It Is Possible to Regain Lost Bone
• Recipes for Healthy Bones