Health Fitness

Arthritis Basics

Maybe pain occurs, like when trying to open a jar. What’s it all about? Let’s look at the basics and learn more. Arthritis actually means “joint inflammation” and has over 100 related conditions or type / forms of disease. Left untreated, it can advance, resulting in joint damage that cannot be undone or reversed. So early detection and treatment are…

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Disease Illness

Strength Training Tips For Osteoporosis Prevention

What’s one of the best ways to prevent osteoporosis? According to many experts in the field of bone health, it’s exercise. More specifically, strength training offers many benefits for men and women at risk of bone loss from osteoporosis. Strength training, also called resistance training, uses resistance from free weights, resistance bands, and water exercise or weight machines to help…

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Nutrition

That Undercover Vitamin

There is a sly vitamin sneaking around town, wandering around your body under cover of your skin. This “vitamin” has a single purpose, although some researchers suspect he has ulterior motives. He goes by the inconspicuous handle of “D” – Vitamin D. Don’t be fooled by his clever disguise. D is no vitamin. He’s a steroid hormone, slipping through your…

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Medicine

Dealing With Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a condition which makes the bones weak and causing them to break easily. As the bones are fragile the slightest movement can break them, especially joints like the hip, spine and wrists. Increasing age makes you prone to this disease, men over fifty and post-menopausal women are the most common patients of osteoporosis. This breakage of bone occurs…

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Womens Issues

Building Better Bones

“It is a bone-deep change you are going into, my beloved,” counsels Grandmother Growth. “You must open to your very marrow for this transformation. No cell is to remain untouched. You are to open more than you ever dreamed you could open, more than you have opened in birth or in passion. You open now to the breath of mortality…

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Health Fitness

The Back Breaking Truth About Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a disease that is common in women. Approximately ten million American, eight million women and two million men, are affected by this condition. What is Osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a condition that features loss of the bone’s normal density. It leads to abnormally porous bone that is more compressible like a sponge, than dense like a brick. This disease…

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Womens Issues

Menopause And Osteoporosis

We know that our bodies require calcium and vitamin D in order to build and maintain powerful bones. According to his recent book entitled, “Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis,” by Dr. Alan Gaby, it takes more vitamins than we think to prevent brittle bones including Vitamins K and B; as well as minerals such as magnesium, phosphorus, fluorine, silica and boron.…

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