Beautiful Bones without Hormones: The All-New Natural Diet and Exercise Program to Reduce the Risk of Osteoporosis and Keep Your Bones Healthy and Strong

Today, millions suffer from osteoporosis or osteopenia. Having seen scores of people lose their independence and their lives to osteoporosis-related fractures, Dr. Root has become a crusader against this silent killer. Dr. Root's plan is the first and only one written since the Women's Health Initiative Study, which questioned the safety of Hormone Replacement Therapy. His simple, all-natural approach consists of an easy-to-follow diet and exercise programme that will safeguard your bones against the incurable - yet almost always preventable - disease of osteoporosis. The book includes: A Fourteen-Day High-Calcium Diet (with foods you love), including variations for children, vegetarians, and the lactose intolerant, with an emphasis on forming healthy habits for a lifetime. A breakdown of the amount of absorbable calcium in common foods More than sixty simple, calcium-rich recipes for delicious - not "diet" - meals, including calorie counts and nutritional information A fully illustrated, twenty-minute exercise routine that you can do at home Cutting-edge information on recent breakthroughs in drug treatment for osteoporosis An extensive glossary, plus a list of organizations and Web sites to help you beat osteoporosis No other book comes close to providing the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute information and advice Dr. Root gives in Beautiful Bones Without Hormones.

Review :
Do we need this book? Yes, yes, yes! Having read it, I plan to have the strongest bones this side of a Tyrannosaurus rex. (Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief, "Cosmopolitan" International) Dr. Root writes in the clearest and most informative way. His is a book that anyone who even suspects that he or she has osteoporosisaand that is a great number of usashould immediately read. (Barbara Walters, ABC News) "Beautiful Bones Without Hormones" offers an incredibly sound and wholesome diet and exercise program certain to minimize the risk of osteoporosis in anyone who follows it. It's an exceptional book, and I recommend it heartily. (Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., associate professor, The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, and author of the national bestseller "Strong Women, Strong Bones") Osteoporosis is a terrible thief, stealing health and independence from women of all ages. Fight back with "Beautiful Bones Without Hormones," this simple and effective do-it-yourself manual from one of America's most experienced and trustworthy orthopedic surgeons. (Lisa R. Callahan, M.D., author of "The Fitness Factor" and medical director of the Women's Sports Medicine Center, Hospital for Special Surgery) An eye-opening account of a very serious disease, osteoporosis, by a thoughtful leader in the field. (Tim McCarver, Fox Sports) This book has become a fixture on my bedside table. (Beverly Sills, Coloratura Soprano and former director of the New York City Opera) "Do we need this book? Yes, yes, yes! Having read it, I plan to have the strongest bones this side of a Tyrannosaurus rex."