Can an alkaline diet help prevent osteoporosis?
It can be quite scary to get the news. “I am sorry to tell you ma’am. You have osteoporosis”. No one wants to be sitting in that chair hearing that news. All over North American, thousands of women and even men are hearing it though. The thought of not being able to enjoy life any more because of the risk of having a un-healable bone break is scary to say the least. New evidence has shown that this news is preventable, and not by what you are seeing in all those TV commercials centered on calcium supplements. In her new book, “Better Bones, Better Body: Beyond Estrogen and Calcium”, Dr. Susan Brown, leading researcher on osteoporosis is presenting some starting facts about this most unnatural condition of old age. First of all, this condition seems to affect the women and men of North America more than other countries. In fact, in Asia, it is quite rare for women to get osteoporosis. Some other startling facts include: 1) It is NOT normal for ones bones to get more brittle as we age. T
