Food For Thought About Osteoporosis

February 2018

Here is a very insightful article about the latest research in Osteoporosis, which reassures me that I have chosen the healthiest way to strengthen my bones.

In 2001, when I was 51, I broke my little toe, and was diagnosed, by Dexa tests, with Osteoporosis.

Two years later I was dumped by a huge wave in the surf and broke my collar bone.

Then in 2007, I cracked my right knee cap, at the same time that my daughter fell pregnant!

I felt deep in my bones that medical drugs were not for me, despite warnings by doctors of being a crippled old lady, and flashbacks of my mother dying at 69 after complications of a hip fracture.

Now, I am 69 myself, I am slight built and my BMD is still showing osteoporosis.

However, I am fit and healthy. I

• dance twice a week
• do my Healthy Bones training in a program called Bones for Life.
• use Ayurvedic medicine to improve my digestion and nourish my bones.
• learnt to stand up for myself and speak up for myself.

For more information about the Bones For Life program, visit

https://www.movement-intelligence.com.au/

Here is a link for the next training in Brisbane in March, 2018

https://www.facebook.com/events/410627292703141/