Recommended Reading

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Osteoporosis: An Exercise Guide
By Margie Bissinger
Ms. Bissinger's book, Osteoporosis: An Exercise Guide is a elegantly simple guide to help prevent and treat osteoporosis.

Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis : Every Woman's Essential Guide
By Alan R. Gaby
This is an excellent resource geared toward a nutritional approach to osteoporosis and bone health. Gaby delves in detail into each vitamin and mineral (and hormone) crucial to the building and maintaining of bone, sometimes exhaustively.

American College of Physicians Home Medical Guide: Osteoporosis (ACP Home Medical Guides)
By David R. Goldmann (Editor), Tony Smith, David A. Horowitz (Editor)

Bone Boosters : The Essential Guide to Building Strong Bones
by Harris H. McIlwain, Debra Fulghum Bruce, Harris McLlwain
Bone Boosters is filled with amazing information on osteoporosis and how this painful, debilitating disease can be PREVENTED with a diet high in bone-boosting nutrients--vitamins and minerals.

The Calcium Cookbook : 200 Recipes That Supply Necessary Calcium-Rich Foods to Prevent Osteoporosis
by Joanne Ness, Genell Subak-Sharpe

The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Stronger Bones : Tips to Stop Osteoporosis and Reverse the Bone Loss That Affects Every Woman over 30
by Mary S. Kittel (Editor), Prevention, THE EDITORS OF PREVENTION HEALTH BOOKS

Better Bones, Better Body: Beyond Estrogen and Calcium
by Susan E., Phd Brown, Russell Jaffe, Susan E. Brown PhD, Russell Jaffe MD
Dr. Susan Brown is an anthropologist who notes dietary and lifestyle differences in Western countries, which exhibit widespread osteoporosis, and Asian countries, where this disease and various problems (including menopausal discomforts) seem rare. She emphasizes that osteoporosis is not a normal aging process nor a strictly female malady.