Definition
Osteoporosis: in United States, nearly 50 percent of all women between the ages of forty_ five and seventy suffer from some degree of osteoporosis.
Symptoms
- A stooped posture
- Backache
- Easily broken bones
- Dowager's hump
- Sleeves and hems that used to fit but that now are too long
Root Causes
- Poor diet
- Hormones
- Smoking
- Acidic PH balance
- Heredity
- Toxic metals
- Eating disorders
- Lack of sun exposure inactivity
- Prolonged stress
Food to avoid
One reason Westerners have such a high rate of osteoporosis is their consumption of foods that are high in sugar. Eliminate sugar, refined grains, and soda pop drinks from your diet.
Recommended
Eat foods that are high in calcium and the other nutrients needed for its assimilation. Sea vegetables, green leafy vegetables (except spinach), soybeans, nuts, molasses, salmon, oysters, sardines (with the bones), broccoli, and unsweetened cultured yogurt are all good sources.