For the eighteen million American women afflicted with early bone-loss disease, here is the first comprehensive guide to identifying and controlling the condition before it progresses to osteoporosis
Osteoporosis, which afflicts more than half of all American women over the age of fifty, is a widespread and all-too-familiar problem. Osteopenia, a milder bone-loss disease that is the forerunner of osteoporosis, is less well known but affects an estimated eighteen million young and middle-aged women-including women in their late teens and early twenties. Since many doctors associate low bone density exclusively with postmenopausal women, millions of women in their childbearing years suffer from undetected bone loss, putting them at risk for debilitating fractures down the road.
In Reversing Osteopenia, Dr. Harris H. McIlwain and his two daughters, also rheumatologists, fill the knowledge gap about this easily diagnosable disease, help younger women recognize the risk factors for bone loss, and provide a five-step program for controlling and even preventing bone loss. Their age-specific recommendations for women in their twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties include - exercises that strengthen rather than threaten your bones - new information about foods that build bone density - ways to avoid medicines that rob bones of their strength - recommendations of natural dietary supplements 
This groundbreaking book offers new hope for young women at risk for osteopenia.

Reversing Osteopenia: The Definitive Guide to Recognizing and Treating Early Bone Loss in Women of All Ages

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Harris McIlwain

Debra Fulghum Bruce

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Holt Paperbacks

Provides a wealth of tips and techniques to rebuild bones and deter osteoporosis and includes charts and lists to assist in making lifestyle changes, ways to increase calcium absorption, the essential nutrients in more than two thousand foods and drinks that strengthen bones, and much more. Original.

Bone Boosters: The Essential Guide to Building Strong Bones

Debra Bruce

Kensington Pub. Corp

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