Eating chocolate is almost a spiritual experience for me.  I turn it into a meditation.  I sit down.  I close my eyes. I place one square of dark chocolate on my tongue.  I don’t chew.  I just let the chocolate take its own good time to melt into my body.  I taste the bitterness and […]

Can you really reverse bone loss naturally?  Without medication?  I get these questions all the time. And today I want to share some pretty exciting news. Drumroll, please….. Doing just 10 minutes of yoga a day can make the difference between bone loss and bone growth.  Here’s how I know.

Here are 5 reasons your bones love mushrooms.  Did you know there are more than 38,000 varieties of mushrooms in the world?  It’s pretty astounding.  Some are superfoods, some are medicinal, and some are deadly poisons. But no matter what kind of mushrooms you eat (except the poison ones!) your bones will thank you.

Brittle Bones and fluoride?  Is it the water?  When I was growing up in the 1950s, the government added fluoride to our drinking water.  That was supposed to be the end of tooth decay. But when I was 8 years old my dentist told me I had more cavities than teeth!  So I guess the […]

Build Your Bones With Butternut Squash Soup I don’t have to look at the calendar to see when fall arrives.  I feel it in my bones.  They get very excited when the first beautiful butternut squash appears at the farmer’s market. Butternut squash is related to pumpkin and, in fact, my friends in Australia and […]

Miso is a truly miraculous food. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki in World War II, 21 hospital workers were caring for 70 tuberculosis patients.  Even though the hospital was only 1.4 kilometers from ground zero, NO ONE developed acute radiation poisoning. How can that be?  One of the doctors explained that everyone […]

Got Almond Milk?  You’ve heard me say this before.  When it comes to healthy bones I don’t recommend drinking milk.  Yes, milk is high in calcium.  But it’s also an acidic food that over time can lead to weaker – not stronger - bones. Americans rely on milk for their bones thanks to a huge […]

I was recently intrigued by a report on PBS about how the rising acid levels in the oceans are eating away at the coral reefs.  Those mineral-rich “bones” of the sea suffer from their own version of “osteoporosis.” And it’s not just the coral.  Marine animals like scallops, oysters, and clams that rely on calcium […]

I like to feed my bones red meat especially during the winter months and the transitional months of spring when my body craves heartier fare. Now, you don't have to have meat for healthy bones.  But if you're a person like me who feels more energetic eating some meat,  it's a good choice. Red meat […]