I don’t know about you, but I don’t like fad diets, especially if they eliminate certain foods, because I like a variety of foods, that’s why I like the yummy Mediterranean-style diet! My love for many types of foods may have originated in my being raised on the...
Vitamin D is an essential nutrient for overall health. Our bodies produce vitamin D when our skin is exposed to ultraviolet (UV) rays in sunlight. And vitamin D occurs naturally in some foods, is added to others, and is available as a supplement in the form of a pill...
Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones characterized by brittle and fragile bones. If you suffer from osteoporosis you are more likely to suffer a fracture if you fall. Even a small fall may cause a fracture in someone with osteoporosis which may not have in someone...
During menopause you need to think about food for your menopausal bones. Bones aren’t static, they have cells that make bone and cells that dissolve bone. When we are young we make more bone than we lose but around the menopause years bone loss speeds up due to...
We build our bones in our younger years, up to around age 30, at which point we generally reach a plateau, but in menopause women lose a lot of bone mass due to hormonal changes. After menopause the rate of bone loss decreases. If we didn’t make enough bone in our...
