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Why take hormones and supplements to ward off osteoporosis--the bone-thinning disease that many postmenopausal women worry about--when you can get calcium and other nutrients needed for healthy bones from eating the right foods? That's the message from Annemarie Colbin, a food therapist who authored a previous book, Food and Healing. While she acknowledges some people would rather pop pills than go to the trouble of cooking healthy foods, she argues her philosophy persuasively.
Why take hormones and supplements to ward off osteoporosis--the bone-thinning disease that many postmenopausal women worry about--when you can get calcium and other nutrients needed for healthy bones from eating the right foods? That's the message from Annemarie Colbin, a food therapist who authored a previous book, Food and Healing. While she acknowledges some people would rather pop pills than go to the trouble of cooking healthy foods, she argues her philosophy persuasively.
First, Colbin describes foods that studies suggest may weaken the bones, such as caffeine and tomatoes. Then she presents evidence for bone-strengthening foods, going beyond the conventional wisdom that dairy products are the best way to get dietary calcium. In fact, she writes, the Chinese vegetable bok choy provides the most calcium per calorie of any food--more than double the amount per calorie in skim milk. The book includes more than 60 recipes to help put Colbin's philosophy into practice, although many of the recipes call for ingredients such as seaweed. Detailed nutritional analysis of the recipes takes up more than 60 pages, space that might have been better spent, perhaps on recipes using more easily available ingredients.
Even if you're not interested in following Colbin's philosophy exactly, her book provides insight into how what we eat affects our bones. "Eating well is the best prevention," Colbin writes. "I hope you will find some ideas here that apply to you, to help you remain strong until the day you decide to leave the earth. Once you know the facts, your own individual course of action will become clearer."
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Natural health expert Colbin (Food and Healing, 1986) takes an approach to treating osteoporosis that is contrary to current medical practice. Instead of promoting dairy products as a way of obtaining calcium, she argues that calcium can be obtained via vegetables such as broccoli, kale, parsley, and butternut squash. She also offers her antipill philosophy (which includes vitamins), stating that the body does not absorb calcium supplements and other medications effectively. Colbin justifies her against-the-norm ideas by providing a lengthy bibliography of resource books, articles, and newsletters and by citing the experiences of her mother and aunt, who were reasonably healthy. The result is not that convincing. Large libraries may purchase only if their patrons want a radical, alternative treatment for osteoporosis. Otherwise, libraries looking for texts offering sound standard medical and nutritional advice regarding osteoporosis should consider Robert Haas's Permanent Remissions (Pocket, 1997), which includes a good chapter on osteoporosis.?Connie Weaver, Bosler Free Lib., Carlisle, PA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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