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  • Julie Hernandez

    I plant a tomato to enjoy it. I like eating raw
    with my salad and cooking it as stewed with chicken, pork or beef, together with fresh peas. It is a very good source of vitamin C &
    lycopene for good eyesight maintenance. Thanks
    again for this good information from you. You
    have been so creative and resourceful in find-
    ing other food information to share with us.
    Julie

  • flouracal

    Vivian, I work in a pharmacy so have access to lots of information on medications. But when reading up on the drug Flouracal. It mentioned it is being used in the treatment of osteoporosis. I live in a city where there is no flouride in the water.They said it was important for bones. I understood the calcium part but wondered if you have heard anything in regards to flouride? And if you thought it had any validity to it.I would appreciate hearing your opinion on this.
    Thank You, Sara Graves

  • Raw Tomato Soup

    Blend 1 qt plain organic yogurt, 1 cup extra
    virgin olive oil, 1 cup organic apple cider
    vinegar, 1/2 cup honey, 1/4 cup celery seeds,
    sea salt, pepper, for a cole-slaw sauce. Put
    tomatoes in blender with some of this sauce
    and you have a super healthy raw tomato soup.
    Wayne Green

  • question about cooking tomato_

    I liked cooked tomatoes also. You said to cook them for 4 and 1/2 hours. That seems like a very long time. Was that a miss print?

  • Cindy M

    From 2003-2007 my T-Scores kept getting worse, worse, worse, ending up in a diagnosis of osteoporosis. I tried Fosamax for 5 weeks but stopped taking it when pains in my legs led me to investigate its side-effects. I was determined then to find a natural remedy! I had already tried improving my bone density with high-calcium foods, but it hadn’t worked. One year ago, I ordered your book and posted your list of alkaline/acid producing foods in my kitchen. I realized the 80/20 diet was the plan I needed. I also found an excellent calcium blend that didn’t upset my system and that included Vit. D. I started taking a hydrochloric acid capsule with meals (when I took my calcium) to aid digestion and help absorb calcium, and I got serious about weight-bearing exercise. (One of my favorite exercises is to push a wheelbarrow around the yard with weights in it, which puts weight on my arms, back, and legs all at the same time.)
    Last month I was thrilled when I got the results of my latest bone density scan. My left femur T-score was unchanged, meaning there was no further bone loss! Better yet, my spine T-score improved from -2.2 to -2.1, and my right heel improved from -2.81 to -2.49! As further confirmation, I no longer have bone pain in my legs when I make a twisting motion, and I no longer hear cracking noises in my forearm when I pick up a full gallon of milk! Thank you Vivian for your information and your encouragement to beat osteoporosis without taking bisphosphonates!

  • wilma greene

    Hi Vivian, Just had my annual DexaScan in November 3,2009….T Score was -2.4 and in 2008 it was -2.5!!!!I stopped taking Actonel in March 2009 after being on it for over 7 yrs.
    My dentist just did Peridontal surgery on me & I discussed the Actonel theory, I also totally lost the hearing in my right ear after taking the monthly Actonel dosage. Dentist says only patients with other health problems, Lymphoma, on Chemo, etc.need to be concerned about the bone loss in the mouth. I took your book and asked him to take it home to read, he did and when I asked his opinion, he said “a little information can be dangerous to your health”

    I am 77 yrs. old, healthy,weigh 134, 5ft. 6 and show no signs of a dowadger hump. Never had to diet in my life, work out at Curves 1 to 2 times each wk.

    Reading on left hip was -3.0 exactly the same as 2008 Dexa Scan.
    I would like your comments.

    Wilma

  • BONES

    HI, I JUST HAD A BONE DENSITY TEST DONE LAST WK AND THE RESULT WAS THE DREADED OSTEOPOROSIS! MY DR.(FEMALE)RIGHT AWAY GAVE ME A PRESCRIPTION FOR ACTONEL AND SAID I’M YOUNG TO HAVE THIS,THAT BY THE TIME I’M 60, I’LL BE WALKING ALL HUMPED OVER! I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS TERRIBLE DRUG AND HAD DECIDED BEFORE READING YOUR SITE THAT I WOULD GO DIRECTLY TO THE HEALTH FOOD STORE I FREQUENTLY VISIT. I HAVE LOST ABOUT 10LBS DUE TO STRESS/DEPRESSION RECENTLY. I AM 5′4″ AND WEIGH 102. MY WEIGHT LAST YR WAS 115! I CAN’T SEEM TO GAIN WEIGHT. I EAT A HEALTHY DIET AND I HAVE A ACTIVE JOB. PLEASE RESPOND WITH ANY IDEAS. THANK YOU SINCERELY, DEBORAH

  • Trying to do the right thing

    After reading Vivian’s book and doing some research online, I decided to take myself off Fosamax even though I wasn’t having any adverse side effects.I didn’t like what was in it or what it did to the bone by only coating it and not strengthening it from the inside. I have to be on a high protein diet due to a tendency towards hypoglycemia. This means I can’t eat fruits (too much sugar) and I don’t like most vegetables (I know!LOL! bad girl!) I have been taking powdered fruit and veggie supplements along with horsetail (silicate),acai berry, and extra Vit.D with my Calcium for the last few months. I have also stopped drinking sodas and using artificial sweeteners. Since my last Bone density was osteoporosis/osteoporotic, I am hoping these things will all help me..I also intend to get a weight vest to wear since I am thin and have a low body mass index. If anyone has any other suggestions, I would love to hear them….keep your fingers crossed for me!

  • vit B12

    I take an hydrocloric acid supplement in addition to a B complex stress vitamin.

  • Ron

    I have tried to follow the 80/20% in the alkaline/acid diet. Feel great and have lost 18 pounds. I want to respond to Vivian’s heel and toe exercise. I walk for three hours each morning. Then I do 50 minutes of exercise in the pool. One of those pool exercises is walking heel and toe for 6 laps of the pool. My physical therapist says that pool exercising gives you the most bang for the buck! You get good exercise, which is low impact.

  • val

    I appreciate the help you give us. I too am avoiding drugs for my osteo and try to boost my calcium and walk and exercise daily. I am sure it helps.

  • Spontaneous femur fractures

    After 13 years on Fosamax , and 4 weeks of a peculiar sort of thigh pain with negative X-Rays for stress fracture, I suffered a fracture of the femur without warning. The snap of a femur fracturing and the pain that follows is a horrific experience. It is a difficult recovery. I invite readers to google “fractured femur and fosamax” to begin an education. Thank you
    Kay Datesman

  • carmen ladouceur

    Dear Vivian
    I want to thank for taking a lot of your time to give me so much information about osteoporose,about drugs I already take by the name of actonel it has really done nothing for me as I have been taking it for 5 years now I really want to go on your program of save our bones, and that very special special exercice program as a matter of fact all the messages that You send me are very important to my health and bones. Please keep on sending those very important health messages to me as I feel as if You are saving my life and giving me a lot of hope for the future You will never know how much your answering my fisrt message has done for me please dont stop as I know how much You are really helping so many people

    Thanking You so very much I’m anxious to hear from You again .I’m going to send for Your save our bones program….

  • Marey

    Have lupus and been on and off prednisone for 20 years. Am 56 years old and my last DEXA scan showed my spine looked like a 72 year old’s. I was given a script for Boniva, but I guess Sally Field is one of the few who haven’t had problems with it. Reading about it online scared me right out of it. I already suffer so much from my disease, I don’t need any more problems. So I haven’t taken it. I got vivian’s reading materials and am starting supplements and TRYING to eat right and exercise, but it’s hard when you feel sick a lot. I hope this works because my doc was very snappy at me when I told him I would not take Boniva.

  • answer to vivian

    thanx for the tips…..will surely try them and hope that they can help strengthen my bones! will watch for more helpful hints. judi

  • David

    I give myself B-12 Injections.

  • Melita Luck

    I’d just like to thank Vivian for both her book and these wonderfully simple pieces of information about such complex seeming issues.

    She has saved me from the Phosomax nightmare (prescribed for me) and I’m delighted that bananas are so benign. I also had an instinctive back-off from the swine flu jab my government (Australian) is urging. So thank you Vivian for explaining it all. You’re an angel!

  • Ms.K.K.

    I have been taking the Q10 for about 6 months. I quit taking the fosmax over a year ago. I knew it was not good for anyone when a cousin starting having trouble with her jaw. I have enough problems without more. Thank you so much for keeping us informed. I learn something every time I read your articles and your book. K.Kilby

  • Reclast

    I cannot take calcium (parathyroid removal), a year ago my Doctor prescribed the Reclast injection. Now I have been diagnosed with stage 3 kidney disease. She (the renal doctor) thinks the Reclast may be part of the cause, I am 72 years old. I realize kidney function does deteriorate, somewhat with age, mine dropped significantly in May thru July of this year. I received the injection in Sept. of 08′. According to blood and urinalysis test I have stabilized, which is a good thing, but isn’t there any treatment or something I can or should be doing….she says no, come back in six months for more tests. Your opinion, please.

  • Mrs. Kim Mack

    Thank You so much about your timely article that spell out the derivatives produced for Flu shots. It just confirmed my common sense as to reason why I wasn’t going to get on board with governmental and media over reaction to H1N1 pandemic. I don’t believe that one should entrust their health to the government to take care of them. Your article just confirms what I suspected.

  • Mrs. Kim Mack

    Like Vivian, I am proactive to prevention to education with my health. I have a medical history with experience in Medical Social Work. I have learned along my journey in life the value of self education, research, advocacy and to realize that doctors early on are not trained in nutritional analysis for health. I did not have either of my young adult sons immunized for I believe that you have one body to value that the Lord entrust in your care and you really are what you eat and as we age how are body process food. For along time my bibles have been Adelle Davis who I refer to quite often. So like Vivian when I went to see my doctor he diagnosed onset ostopenia and gave me a script for Fasomax. This has started my journey of self efficacy of research, to find Vivian ’s information on the web and pursue what I need to learn for the betterment of health. I have lots to learn, but life is about the living and learning along the way.

  • Mrs

    I was called to my health centre and asked to book for a flu vaccine by my health review nurse and promptly vaccinated only last week. If I had this information I would have insisted on refusing the flu jab!
    Please could you give such information in time before they start the flu jabs here in the U.K. in September?
    Thank you for your save your bones emails.
    Joyce Joseph

  • Your book

    Your book is wunderfull.Bin on the 80- 20 diet for 6 weeks now.The pain in my upper back is somewhat better. Love your recepies. my Dr. still pushing the Actonel, but I am refusing.
    I am looking for a n Alterative Dr.
    Where can I find one?
    Can somebody help?
    Regards
    Karin Kestler

  • My Health

    Not trying to be funny, but rather serious.
    This is the first time I have heard from you in a long time. I have questions and I am not certain if I will reach the goal of bone growth after letting go of the medication. This is my fourth month. I have remained overall on my diet. with some minor deviations. I think bout my age which is 66 and the bodies declining ability to break down the foods and supplements and the five year period or six years. My mesdication is minimal only 160mg of diovan and 61mg of aspirin. I do walk regurarly but dificult to have a weight work out because my back goes out so easy. When I walk I take small bottle of water for weight bearing exercise and cardio. I did talk with Dr. Ash on 7:10 am in thse New YorK Area. He told me that I needed mor testing to see how my body is fucntioning but that Might not be possible because of my limited INcome. I do have faith IN God as a healing force in my life;
    Respectfully Yours;
    Paul R Simpson Sr

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