A Day In The Life #3: My Workday Exercise Tricks

Remember the old Yellow Pages slogan, “Let Your Fingers Do the Walking?”

Well let me tell you, my fingers do a lot of “walking” – sometimes even more than my legs do. You see, I spend long hours in front of my computer, which means I also spend a lot …

Breathe This Way and Help Your Bones

Most of us don’t pay much attention to it. In fact, we take it for granted. And worse, we don’t even relate it to our health, unless we experience problems with it. Breathing, the one thing we do every second of the day.

Most people are shallow breathers, and …

Doing This Can Sabotage Your Bone-Building Efforts

Summertime is perfect for long, enjoyable walks that build your bones, especially early in the day or in the evening when the weather cools off.

Walking is also a great stress reducer. As I discuss in he Save Our Bones Program, stress is actually an acidifying process because of cortisol, a …

The Top 5 Things You Can Do for Your Bone Health

Sometimes it’s good to take a step back and look at the forest instead of the trees. There are so many things that you can do to naturally build your bones! That’s why my typical blog posts focus on micromanaging your bone health by giving insight on one food or …

How Summertime Helps Your Bones

It’s possibly one of the busiest places on earth. Picture around two million tiny pumps – hard at work all day and night – and you’ll understand why. Controlled by one central thermostat and connected to millions of surface sensors, these minute marvels are your sweat glands.

They regulate your …

Link Between Wrinkles and Osteoporosis: Fact or Fiction?

According to a well-known proverb, the eyes are the mirror of the soul. But what if your skin could be the mirror of your bones? In a brand new study, Yale School of Medicine researcher Dr. Lubna Pal suggests that there might be a direct correlation between common wrinkles on …

Is Your Cell Phone Zapping Your Bone Density?

We’ve certainly come a long way with technology – especially in the last couple of centuries. Our quality of life has greatly improved thanks to clever inventors who are constantly seeking new ways to get things done as quickly and efficiently as possible.

But sometimes those very same advances can bite …

Is Osteoporosis in Your Blood?

I love to play Sudoku. Every time I travel, I take my book with hundreds of puzzles onboard. What I like most about Sudoku is that it requires using extreme logic. Plus to complete a puzzle, there is no room for error. Just one number wrongly placed in a square …

A Day In The Life #2: A Bone-Smart Snack Experiment

I was totally unprepared for this sudden attack. But fortunately, using the few items I scraped together and with a dose of creativity, I ended up managing pretty well.

Don’t worry. I was stricken with nothing more than a “Snack Attack”, and the end result of this whimsical taste adventure …

Stop Brushing Your Teeth… Until You Read This

Don’t forget to brush your teeth! This phrase used to be my mother’s reminder every night before I went to bed. But I soon realized that just brushing was not enough, so I also floss after each meal and get a professional cleaning twice a year.

Yet what might …