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AWESOME BOOK OF CURES,NUTRITION, AND HEALING FOODS
Five HEALTHFUL Stars!! In this great compendium Jerry Baker's expert nutrition team, Karen Cicero and Colleen Pierre, shows that many foods can not only taste good and be the source of healthful nutrients, but have healing powers that many of us may not be aware of and can apply in specific cases of need. In an age when we hear so many individual news stories on the benefits of a particular food, it's hard to remember them over time. Now we have one place to look for many common foods available to us all that pack a nutritional punch. Not exhaustive to be sure, but a great reference book nonetheless that outlines common foods that it claims can fight cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, osteoperosis, memory loss, etc. And the benefitcited in most of the listed foods is the #1 killer in the US: heartdisease.
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Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet Therapy    3. Diets - General    4. General    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Naturopathy    8. Nutrition    9. Nutrition And Public Health    10. Health & Fitness / Nutrition   

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this will change your life
My mother has a family history of osteoprosis.Severe, fatal osteoprosis.We were recommended this book by the physical therapist after her second bout with vetrebral fractures.It is understandable by lay people and includes very useful and simple changes to make in your life to combat the threat of osteoprosis.It includes testing and interpreting of tests, diet ,life habits,medecations, and useful exercises. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diseases    4. Diseases - Musculoskeletal    5. General    6. Health & Fitness    7. Health/Fitness    8. Osteoporosis in women    9. Prevention    10. Women's Health - General    11. Family & Health   

Subjects:  1. Alternative Therapies    2. Alternative treatment    3. Bones    4. Consumer Health    5. Diet / Health / Fitness    6. Diseases    7. Diseases - Musculoskeletal    8. Health & Fitness    9. Health/Fitness    10. Healthy Living    11. Herbal Medications    12. Herbs    13. Holistic Medicine    14. Joints    15. Therapeutic use    16. Health & Fitness / Diseases / Musculoskeletal   

Editorial Review

Why take hormones and supplements to ward off osteoporosis--the bone-thinning disease that many postmenopausal women worry about--when you can get calcium and other nutrients needed for healthy bones from eating the right foods? That's the message from Annemarie Colbin, a food therapist who authored a previous book, Read more

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Finally something I can believe and follow
I am thrilled to discover this book by Annemarie Colbin about such an important issue for me and many other women of my generation.I have a heart problem so when my Kaiser physician told me I should take Fosamax for my osteoporosis I decided there must be another way.When you take Fosamax, it sends calcium to your bones.But, your heart needs calcium too.So, how do you know if you are doing more damage to your heart and other tissues if you take this drug?What's more important - my heart or my skeleton.
Powerful Advise for Strong Bones
Annemarie Colbin has writen a wonderful, concise and palatable manual for understanding the relationship between lifestyle and bone health. She systematically details the causes of bone deterioration and establishes a course of action to counteract its progression.I would recommend this book to anyone, practitioner or patient, who either has a family history of osteoporosis or will be older tomorrow than they are today.I guess that includes us all.Great job Annemarie!

A must read for those who care about their health
As usual, Annemarie Colbin's voice of reason brings hope to a field of health awareness where hype and misinformation dominate.This book is fascinating and, like her other books, forces one to THINK about the thingswe put into our bodies every day.The approach she proposes isunconventional to most Americans but please don't dismiss it.Remember,osteoporosis is thriving in the countries (like ours) where dairy productsare freely consumed by the majority.Give this book a read and you won'tbe sorry! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diet therapy    4. Diets - General    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Healthy Living    8. Nutrition    9. Osteoporosis    10. Popular works    11. Prevention    12. Women's Health - General    13. Diets & dieting    14. Health & Fitness / Healthy Living    15. Popular medicine   

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More than 25 million Americans have osteoporosis, or porous bones, and another 34 million people are at risk because of their low bone density. This is preventable, says author George Kessler, an osteopathic physician. In Read more

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A Highly Recommended Book, for Everyone
This should be required reading for all parents. They would understand the ramifications of nutrition and activity on their children.Maybe they'd stop the stupidity of giving their children excess amounts of soda pop.
Worth the money
Since I have Osteoporosis fairly early in life, I found this book informative and very helpful. Not only is there good general information about Osteoporosis, with current medications and alternative treatments; but recipes, a workout with weights and yoga routine with easy to follow instructions and pictures. He offers an holistic approach to health care management.

Dangerously misleading - waste of money
If I could have rated this without a star I would have I have osteoporosis, and have done extensive research on diets for bone health - which can ultimately be summarized as acidic vs. alkaline foods.This book contains no list of foods specific pH levels for a variety of foods - I bought it thinking it would SURELY contain this extremely important!! NO IT DOES NOT and there is no clinical nutritionist involved either that I could find.So you are taking information from someone that does not have an intimate knowledge of nutrition to begin with!Read more

Subjects:  1. Osteoporosis    2. Popular works    3. Prevention    4. Osteoporosis in women    5. Diet therapy    6. Diet / Health / Fitness    7. Health & Fitness    8. Diets - Better Health    9. Diets - General    10. Bargain   

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Coaches! Let women be women
I am a male coach of female soccer players.I would go so far as to say that the depth of knowledge contained in this book is beyond that which many coaches of team sports would search for. However, coaches who are interested in getting the best from their athletes, rather than having athletes fit their own personal coaching agendas, will find in these pages essential truths that will illuminate their coaching.There has been a strong social tendency for women's understanding of ability and success to be measured by male standards (the sense of athletic body image in connection with performance, which is dealt with in detail, is only one of them driven by this perspective), and this book is thankfully one which reminds us that women are not only entitled to be judged as women, but need and deserve to be so.As coaches, and certainly as male coaches, we cannot help our female athletes realise their potential until we understand them better and give them credit for being who they are, and encourage them to be who they are.This book helps us do just that.

A Must for All Female Athletes
Books which honestly deal with the pressures and concerns of female athletes are rare, and this one should be required reading for every active woman from twelve to sixty. There is lots of information out there on how to be thin but far less on how to be fit. Otis and Goldingay are among the very few to acknowledge that they are not one and the same. This is not a book about eating disorders - though they are intelligently discussed. Nor is it a book about how to get in shape. It's much more. The authors honestly address medical issues such as amenorrhea and osteoporosis, provide information on nutrition, injuries and maintaining optimal energy for performance. Most important of all, they are medical professionals finally urging athletic women to be as strong as they can be. For anyone who's ever struggled between the twin camps of thin and fit, this book MUST go to the top of the pile.

Covers a gamut of issues concerning women athletes
The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide covers a gamut of issues concerning women athletes including eating disorders, amenorrhea, osteoporosis, body image. One of the most important chapters is on getting and giving help, forming a support team, getting referrals, the journey to recovery while continuing training, and communicating effectively with family, friends, teammates, and coaches. The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide concludes with an excellent chapter on "Peak Performance: Preventing the Triad" and sites specifically what the woman athlete can do, what her friends can do, what her family can do, what schools and organizations can do, what their men can do, and what coaches and athletic departments can do to assist the woman athlete to thrive, prosper, and perform in the competitive world of athletic competition. Highly recommended for personal, professional, and athletic department reference libraries, The Athletic Woman's Survival Guide is enhanced with references, resource lists, and a comprehensive index. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - General    2. Amenorrhea    3. Consumer Health    4. Diseases    5. Eating disorders    6. General    7. Health and hygiene    8. Health/Fitness    9. Sports & Recreation    10. Women And Sports    11. Women athletes    12. Women's Health - General    13. Women's Studies - General   

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Subjects:  1. Bone Diseases, Metabolic    2. Consumer Health    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. Diseases - Musculoskeletal    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health/Fitness    7. Musculoskeletal Diseases    8. Osteopenia    9. Osteoporosis    10. Popular Works    11. Prevention    12. Questions & Answers    13. Coping with illness    14. Health & Fitness / General    15. Popular medicine   

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A treasure
This is truly a wonderful book, beautifully and thoughtfully written, with valuable information, excellent exercises, stretches and meditations. It condenses some of the valuable treasures yoga offers in spare, intelligent prose that seem lit from within. I would recommend it for any younger, healthy woman wishing to prevent osteoporosis in later life or looking for a way to balance hormones naturally now. Yoga, helps your hormones make connections with bone and
muscles, to prevent bone loss.Read more

Subjects:  1. Alternative Therapies    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Health & Fitness    4. Health/Fitness    5. Osteoporosis    6. Prevention    7. Yoga    8. Yoga for exercise   

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Showcases 250 recipes
In The High-Calcium Low-Calorie Cookbook, Betty Marks showcases 250 recipes, each of which is especially relevant for women having to deal with the calcium deficit condition of osteoporosis (bone density loss). A diet of calcium-rich foods combined with a regular exercise program can not only slow bone loss, it can help female posture and skeletal integrity to remain straight and strong. These easy, natural, calcium rich recipes range from Tricolor Yogurt Loaf; Oriental Snow Pea Soup; Scallop and Oyster Salad; Lady Rainbow Okra; and Swiss Potato Torte; to Blue Cheese Dressing; Ricotta Peanut Butter; Cheddar Bread; Banana Berry Rice Pudding; Almond Carob Milk Shake. Acknowledging that children need good calcium dishes for a well balanced diet for young growing bodies, The High-Calcium Low-Calorie Cookbook is a welcome and recommended addition to any and all family kitchen cookbook collections as well!
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Subjects:  1. Cookery For Medical Conditions    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Diet Therapy    5. Health & Healing - General    6. High-calcium diet    7. Low-calorie diet    8. Osteopathy    9. Osteoporosis    10. Recipes    11. Health & wholefood cookery   

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Do Your Bones a Favor (read this book)
One easily finds needed information about osteoporosis through the user-friendly format of the Dummies guide.Large print headings, symbols in the border(warning, tip, remember, technical stuff) and checklists make the info accessible.
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Finally a book with direct answers to my questions!
My husband has suffered from low back pain for a number of months.Atfirst, he was reluctant to see a doctor because he thought he might needback surgery.After reading Save Your Aching Back, we learned surgery isseldom needed.What a relief!Also, the book helped us both to understandwhat was going on during the office visit.Since starting physicaltherapy, he is feeling much better and is able to play golf again.Thankyou.

Content educational but in dire need of an editor
The information in the book was very helpful and useful, but the font looked like it was picked by a preschooler. And who writes continued on the bottom so readers know to go on to the next page. I must admit that Ifinished with a somewhat better understanding of the spine. Next time,however, Dr. Eidelson should hit spell check.

Thank you!Finally a back book for non-medical people!
Recently, I was diagnosed with Spinal Stenosis.I felt as though my doctor was speaking Greek to me when he tried to explain my condition.It was then I decided to educate myself on this abnormality and the general'make up' of the back.Read more

Subjects:  1. Arthritis    2. Back    3. Back Pain    4. Backache    5. Care and hygiene    6. Diet / Health / Fitness    7. Health & Fitness / Reference    8. Medical    9. Medical / Orthopedics    10. Orthopedics    11. Osteoporosis    12. Pain    13. Reference    14. Spine    15. Stenosis   

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Finally, an alternative to the Fosomax party line
The only publication I've seen that doesn't slavishly recommend fosomax as the only way to reverse osteoporosis. I was heartened to see a positive review of this book from a physician on Amazon.com, because when Imentioned these authors' recommendation of calcium plus ipriflavone at alecture by a local internist, he dismissed it out of hand (and out ofignorance of its existence) as "one of those rumors that fly aroundthe Internet." The only problem is, how do you find a physician who iswilling to help you try this regimen, which apparently is far safer thanFosomax? The authors do not explain how to find a nutritionally orienteddoctor in a world of simplistic, cookie-cutter, prescription-pad,one-solution-for-all medicine.

I feel compelled to recommend it to all of my patients.
As a physician, I found this book to be very informative and well written and does a great job of explaining exactly what is causing the bone tissue to lose calcium and therefore bone mass as we age.The book also explainshow calcium and other minerals and supplements exert their effect on thebone.As I said before, I strongly recommend this book for all women,regardless of age, if you have an interest in preventing or treating thisvery common condition. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diet therapy    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health/Fitness    6. Healthy Living    7. Osteoporosis    8. Osteoporosis in women    9. Prevention    10. Self-care, Health    11. Women's Health - General    12. Health & Fitness / Healthy Living    13. Women's health   

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Subjects:  1. Chemotherapy    2. Consumer Health    3. Diseases - Musculoskeletal    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health/Fitness    6. Hydroxyapatite    7. Osteoporosis    8. Popular works    9. Therapeutic use    10. Women's Health - General    11. Coping with illness    12. Fitness & diet   

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Super Calcium and Super Recipes
The Calcium counter is amazing,but the great recipes were a real bonus. I keep in my desk and it really helps when I prepare the weekly menus for my family. My girls are already leaning how to have strong bones from the beginning!

Great source for foods that keep bones strong
My mother and grandmother both have osteoporosis. When my doctor told me that family history plays a big role in who gets this disease, I decided to fight it all I could. This book--SUPER CALCIUM COUNTER--is amazing!!! Thefood lists are excellent and so helpful as I plan my family's weekly menu.The recipes are easy to understand--and trendy--even my kids love them.There is NO NEED to get osteoporosis--if you can understand the cause andprevention. BUY THIS BOOK!!!

Excellent source for the top bone-building foods & recipes
As a registered dietician, I'm always watching for nutrition books. So many are full of hype and misinformation--yet SUPER CALCIUM COUNTER is the first easy-to-read book I've seen that is filled with the top bone-boostingfoods--and it is totally correct. The recipes are delicious--easy to make.Get the book--it will keep you strong your entire life! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Calcium content    2. Calcium in human nutrition    3. Consumer Health    4. Diet / Health / Fitness    5. Diets - General    6. Diseases - Musculoskeletal    7. Food    8. Health & Fitness    9. Health & Healing - General    10. Health/Fitness    11. Low-fat diet    12. Recipes    13. Tables    14. Vitamins    15. Dietetics & nutrition   

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easy to use
A friend of mine recommended this book for my mother and I am so glad she did!
Great Patient Educational Tool
Ms. Bissinger's book, Osteoporosis:An Exercise Guide is a elegantly simple guide to help prevent and treat osteoporosis. One of the best excercise books I have seen.
As a physician, I recommend this book to all my patients who are concerned about osteoporosis.It is written by a physical therapist who has chosenspecific exercises that can strengthen bones.The book is beautifullyillustrated and very simple to follow.I advise any patient who wants tobegin exercising to start with this book.I wish there were more booksavailable that were as concise and helpful to one's overall health. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Age factors    2. Aging    3. Diseases    4. Geriatric orthopedics    5. Medical    6. Medical / Nursing    7. Neurology - General    8. Orthopedics    9. Spine    10. Medical / Orthopedics    11. aging spine    12. degenerative spine    13. elderly    14. fracture    15. osteoporosis   

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Arthritis, Rheumatism and Osteoporosis a good book to read
That's one of a wide range of healthy books written by Bernard Jensen.
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Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diseases - General    3. Nutrition    4. Science/Mathematics