Do you know how much calcium you’re really getting from your food? I’m not talking about how much calcium is in the food you eat.  I’m talking about how much of that calcium your body actually absorbs.  Scientists call it bioavailability. Here’s what it means. 

Do you love the summer like I do?    Summer brings brilliant berries and pesty mold.   Berries are so good for our bones. Keeping them fresh - What about the mold that grows so quickly? Have you ever purchased a pint of those mouthwatering local raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries to find them growing mold […]

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 […]