Category: Healthy bones Osteoporosis Rheumatic

It is now the commonly shared view of many experts that oestrogen hormones are highly effective for the prevention of osteoporosis, reducing bone resorption and retarding postmenopausal bone loss. Doctors are finding 60 per cent fewer fractures of the hip and wrist among older women who started low-dose oestrogen therapy within a few years of [...]

Although the condition in men has not been studied to the same extent as in women, they can and do suffer from it, though usually at a much later age with the normal decline of their overall bone mass. Among those who live to the age of ninety, 17 per cent of men will suffer [...]

Many people say they don’t like the taste of milk, or as vegetarians, they don’t care to consume food that has an animal origin. Nevertheless your body still has a need for calcium. Get to know the various products made from the soya bean: soya milk, soya flour and especially tofu. (Persons taking thyroid medication [...]

Do you think your local water feels ‘hard’ or ’soft’? Check the mineral content with your water company or local health authority. Where water flows over granite or other impervious rocks, few minerals are dissolved, and the water is often referred to as ’soft’. Thus, although the water feels good for bathing and makes laundry [...]

According to D.H.S.S. estimates for 1987, the ingredients for prescription laxatives and purgatives cost ?12.5 million, with more millions spent on non-prescription aids. As many as 22 per cent of people in Britain admit to taking laxatives regularly -many are not needed, some are harmful and possibly habit-forming. The frequent and excessive use of laxatives [...]