How to Prevent Osteoporosis Through Fun Fitness
By Bonnie Murphy

You are a 40 year old female and you’ve just had a routine bone-density test and your doctor is telling you that your bones are as frail as that of a 75 year old. What do you do? How do you reverse that? You’ve been taking the calcium supplement that was recommended by your physician. What now?

As you are leaving the doctor’s office you are handed a pamphlet that is titled “How to reverse the onset of Osteoporosis.” You clutch it in your hand and can’t wait to get home to read it. It talks about weight-bearing exercise. It mentions weigh-training. It talks about impact. The words are so confusing.

Bones tend to degenerate when they are not used, just like muscles. Today we are very sedentary because we have so many modern conveniences that we don’t ask our bones to do too much. The answer to reversing the affects of osteoporosis would be to be more active. Play more.
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Strength Training and Osteoporosis
By Lynn VanDyke

Hippocrates once said, "That which is used develops, and that which is not used wastes away." I like to believe that he is talking about strength training and its affect on osteoporosis. Strength training can be defined as any activity that places a heavier load on the muscles than it is typically used to. Osteoporosis is defined as a decrease in bone mass and density causing bones to become fragile.

Strength training has been shown to increase bone density. It has been shown to increase overall strength, balance and coordination as well. Exercise is one of the best natural defenses against this disease.

Unfortunately, as we grow older we tend to use our muscles less and less. This inactivity is costing us. Falls and broken bones are of major concern to many of us. Strength training can help reduce the number of serious accidents by providing a base of strength and balance.
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Can an Alkaline Diet Help Prevent Osteoporosis?
By Glen Jansen

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.
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Modern and Natural Medicine
By Stewart Hare

Modern medicine seems to be winning the war against infectious diseases and is good at repairing the body from trauma, these used to be the main causes of ill health and death in western societies. The major cause of ill health and death in the 21st century in the western world is now from degenerative diseases such as coronary artery disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s and cancer. Modern medicine is less effective against these degenerative diseases because it has a blinkered approach of using drugs to suppress the symptoms and does not to look at the bigger picture of why the disease has come about in the first place.
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Natural Progesterone and Osteoporosis Treatment Success
By David Buster

Using natural progesterone and osteoporosis was successfully treated? Is it possible? After all, natural progesterone is safe to use with virtually no side effects when used correctly. It is one of the two primary hormones produced in a healthy woman during the menstrual cycle, the other hormone being estrogen. In perhaps the only study of natural progesterone and osteoporosis treatment of its kind, the success obtained by a leading Harvard-trained physician for reversing osteoporosis in women is explained.

What is osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a progressive disease where the bones become more porous and weaker over time. Untreated, osteoporosis will weaken, disable and kill both women and men. Almost half of the women in the United States will fracture a hip, forearm or spine sometime in their lifetime. 20% of women who fracture their hip will die within one year. And it is not just a disease of the elderly. Osteoporosis regularly begins its destructive process for women in their 30's. Becoming slightly shorter in height is the most noticable of the osteoporosis symptoms. Osteoporosis causes postural changes, and it makes one more likely to have a bone fracture as one ages.
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