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Osteoporosis

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angela192
angela192

Diagnosed with osteoporosis, but only after I requested a bone density scan.  I would not have found out, until I broke something that is !   It should be offered readily to post menopausal women.

Anyway, weight bearing is supposed to help it, or prevent it - but WRONG !   I have danced for about 20 years, jiving, rock and roll and le roc, but still developed it.   

Am on Alendronic acid tablets, one a week with no side effects yet.  Any tips on what foods, apart from calcium and vitamin D that help ?   Sesame seeds are supposed to be rich in calcium.     I also have a low BMI and am underweight, despite eating chocolate, biccies, cakes, no name it !

This morning for the first time, when I woke every bone in my body ached. OK I know I am 72, but feel very ancient sometimes !

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  • diana22660
    diana22660 angela192

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    I think it's worth all of us looking at this article http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1183439/ - it's a little heavy on the medical terms, but the bottom line is - it's a new approach to treating osteoporosis with lactoferrin, which is found in whey - my son the bodybuilder is taking it - but seems it's excellent for us older ladies. May be worth showing to your doc to see what s/he has to say. Anything's better than the awful once a month medication, which I took once and never again...Best of luck!
  • joy47826
    joy47826 angela192

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    My sister who is 10 yrs younger than me and very sadly is in advanced MS...she was/is a sugarholic....sugar kills everything in our body.....I even had her out to CA when her MS reared it's ugly head and had her see a nutritionist here who also has CONTROLLED MS, and so much has to do with foods including carbs and sugars..... She heard what the lady was saying but it went in one ear and out the other.....now she has about lost her voice to this dread disease.It can be controlled....

    Lick and kick that habit.

    I'm much older but I did my share of sugars...but I've learned and learned and have a pretty strong mind.

    Personally, I stay away from white foods like white potatoes, eat a sweet potatoe now and then and cooking some now in my homemade soup.....I even avoid rice a lot and hardly ever eat pastas now....was raised with white foods....

    I eat chicken (grass fed) and some beef, but in moderation.

  • angela192
    angela192

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    Looking at for and against milk, sugar etc.etc, I am of the opinion that at our age (mine is 72) - why worry too much ?    After all, life is for living and a little  bit of what you fancy does you good.

    After all the so called "experts" keep changing their minds - for example butter was a no-no, and the next day virtually, other low fat spreads and margarines are the baddies.    

    My dear departed Mother in Law lived until she was 101.  She was brought up on butter and cream, always had tea and cake in the afternoons.    She didn't die from heart disease, just merely old age.

    If I was younger, then I might have taken the food scaring stories seriously, but life is for living.    

    • joy47826
      joy47826 angela192

      Posted

      What is left for me and I'm 76, I prefer to keep myself as much in less pain as I know how....and I've been in prevention for 25 yrs.....I did my share of sugars all my life and here I am full of joint damage.

      And I've used butter all my life and now use coconut oil for all my cooking along with olive oil. We change.

      I'm not void of all sugars believe me, but very mindful....and if it's true that cancers thrive in a sugar environment, then I want to starve any cancer cells as best I can.

      My parents both lived into 90's and they were ready to go, I'm not excited about living to 100, hope I do not. I'll have run out of money anyway.

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