Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 If skeletal fragility develops, bone fractures can occur with minimal or no trauma, a condition known as osteoporosis. The ability to reverse bone deficits with early diagnosis and treatment remains uncertain.
Amenorrhea most often results from excessive exercise or energy intakes too low to sustain physiologic levels of estrogen. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat. In this condition body weight is less than 86% of normal for height and age. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 It progresses without any obvious symptoms until irreversible pain, loss of height, change in posture, and bone fractures make it all too obvious. Osteoporosis develops when bones become overly porous and brittle from the loss of calcium and other minerals. It should not be taken lightly; osteoporosis is the twelfth leading cause of death in America. More than 25 million Americans, four-fifths of them women, currently suffer from osteoporosis. After age sixty-five, one-half of all women and one-fifth of all men break bones due to osteoporosis—a total of 1.3 million fractures a year. |
Bill Sardi
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 British Journal Cancer 82: 1254-60, 2000]
Hypercalcemia and bone fractures are common in cases of multiple myeloma. Physicians commonly prescribe drugs called bisphosphonates (Fosamax, Actonel) in cases of multiple myeloma to decrease bone pain and fractures. However, vitamin D facilitates bone healing and regeneration while elevating immunity. Supplemental vitamin D has been shown to be superior to bisphosphonates in multiple myeloma patients. [American Journal Medicine Science 318: 61-66, 1999]
What causes multiple myeloma? |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Ire a t m e n t s
One of the drug industry's most charming commercials features a healthy and glamorous-looking sixty-something actress who confides to viewers that she has gotten shorter and that her doctor told her she might have bone fractures. Then she smiles and cheerfully advises women to see their doctors if they have gotten shorter. She also says that osteoporosis may be making women's bones brittle. The words Actonel (risedronate) float across the screen, and a male voice fires off the typical list of possible side effects, caveats, and contraindications. |
| There is no evidence that taking calcium or vitamin D when you are young will prevent bone fractures in old age. Studies have shown that calcium and vitamin D supplementation in people over age sixty-five increased total bone density but not necessarily in the areas that matter, like the femoral neck.8 Moreover, the changes in bone-mineral density in areas like the femoral neck (which cause hip fracture) were present only for men and not women. This is important since osteoporotic fractures primarily affect women. |
| CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D
Doctors routinely recommend supplementation with calcium and vitamin D to prevent osteoporosis and bone fractures in postmenopausal women. Taking calcium increases calcium in the blood, making more available for uptake into the bone. With normal aging, there is a decrease in calcium absorption by the stomach. Vitamin D (cholecalciferol) is known to increase calcium absorption in the gut as well as to act synergistically with calcium to promote bone density. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It also explains the ongoing problems with dental health and bone fractures in the UK, but that's a different story...)
An incredible double standard
What's all this about doctors pretending to "protect the public" anyway? They claim to be locking up Santos in order to protect the health of the public, and yet they'll send patients home by the thousands with prescriptions for toxic pharmaceuticals that harm everyone! FDA-approved prescription drugs are now the 4th leading cause of death in the United States (tuberculosis isn't even close). |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 It was those experiments that led to his findings about how electric currents could be used to heal bone fractures.8
Millennia ago, the Chinese recognized our intimate link with energy fields by identifying energy pathways, known as meridians, in the body. They use the word qi to describe the electromagnetic life force that flows through these meridians. Much of traditional Chinese medicine consists of finding ways to keep the natural electromagnetic energies of the human body in alignment and in balance with each other. |
Tom Bohager
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 These injuries include sprains, strains, dislocation or partial dislocation (subluxation), torn ligaments or tendons, bone fractures, and repetitive stress injuries. The most common causes of sports injuries are failure to warm up or cool down properly before or after exercise, structural abnormalities (for example, abnormal joint structure), and weak connective tissues. Some injuries can become chronic, particularly repetitive stress injuries. |
| Sports injuries are a very common occurrence and many of them can be treated without major medical intervention, the exceptions being bone fractures and torn connective tissue. After a sports injury, a series of metabolic processes often known as inflammation take place. One of the major concerns when treating inflammation is capillary blood flow, so the RICE (rest, ice, compression, and elevation) treatment method is usually recommended.
As the smallest blood vessels in the body, capillaries are responsible for carrying oxygen and nutrients to the cells and removing waste. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| Their bone fractures greatly decreased in frequency, and microscopic analysis of their bones showed that many of the previously abnormal bone parameters had been normalized. Although further research is warranted, these case studies are promising.2
. FOR PROTECTION AGAINST BREAST CANCER
In the 1950s, one American woman in twenty was at risk for developing breast cancer. Today, one in nine is at risk, and about 44,300 women die annually. Why are so many women suffering from this deadly disease? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This was accomplished by giving the control group information on improving their diet and reducing the risk of bone fractures.
So it could very well be that both groups had a reduced risk of bone fractures, but since that reduction was the same in both groups, the study declares that supplements are useless. The key here is in recognizing that the control group wasn't really a control group. It was another variable group, where the method of intervention was education rather than supplements. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 The article continues:
Not only do statins greatly reduce cholesterol and lower mortality in people at risk for heart attacks, but some studies also suggest that they might help prevent or treat a wide range of ailments, including Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, bone fractures, some types of cancer, macular degeneration and glaucoma.'0
Quite a list. Of all these claims, the most important is that statins prevent heart attacks, or other mortal events among those with high blood cholesterol. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Milk avoiders have increased risk for prepubertal bone fractures [56]. Retrospective studies have shown the incidence of postmenopausal fracture is inversely related to drinking milk in childhood [57, 58]. In the nationally representative NHANES data base, the incidence of hip fracture was twice as likely in those who consumed one glass of milk or less per week compared to those who consumed at least one serving per day during childhood [57].
Milk consumption in children has declined over time. |
| Children who avoid drinking cow's milk are at increased risk for prepubertal bone fractures. /. Am. Diet. Assoc. 104, 250-253.
57. Kalkwarf, H. J., Khoury, J. C, and Lanphear, B. P. (2003). Milk intake during childhood and adolescence, adult bone density, and osteoporotic fractures in U.S. women. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 11, 257-265.
58. Sandler, R. B., Slemenda, C. W., LaPorter, R. E., Cauley, J. A., Schramm, M. M., Banesi, M. I., and Kriska, A. M. (1985). Postmenopausal bone density and milk consumption in childhood and adolescence. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 43, 270-274.
59. Nicklas, T. A. (2003). |
Bottom Line Health
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| Tamoxifen's side effects included a 32% decrease in bone fractures over seven years of follow-up, but an increase in the risk of uterine cancer, stroke, pulmonary embolism and cataracts.
Isaacs says doctors can use a well-validated risk-benefit model that includes a woman's age, medical and family histories as well as other factors to help decide whether tamoxifen might be right for her. |
Mike Adams
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 Disease Prevention and Treatment by the Life Extension Foundation
(If you noticed, this study also showed that high physical activity helped protect against bone fractures - something I've advocated for years. The more physical you get on a daily basis, the stronger your bones.)
This study showed that calcium supplementation helped prevent bone fractures. It only makes sense: if you get more calcium, you will help balance out the ratios. But as the earlier quotes mentioned, the absorption of that calcium may be seriously impaired by the excessive phosphorus. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Using eighty-seven surveys in thirty-three countries, it compared the ratio of vegetable to animal protein consumption to the rate of bone fractures (Chart 10.2).1 A high ratio of vegetable to animal protein consumption was found to be impressively associated with a virtual disappearance of bone fractures.
These studies are compelling for several reasons. They were published in leading research journals, the authors were careful in their analyses and
CHART 10.2: ASSOCIATION OF ANIMAL VERSUS PLANT PROTEIN INTAKE AND BONE FRACTURE RATES FOR DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
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Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 It was awful: She developed cardiac arrhythmias, severe osteoporosis and bone fractures, and blindness. Even worse, it was painful to stand by helplessly when physicians were unable to help her. In fact, because of that horrible experience during my teenage years, I was inspired to become a doctor so I could help heal people.
You'd expect that, growing up with a diabetic mom, I would learn how to moderate sugar intake and properly manage blood sugar levels. But that didn't happen. |
Dawson Church
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 Ailments more common in those who grew up in dysfunctional families included obesity, heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, bone fractures, hypertension, and hepatitis. The genetic links between nurturing and gene expression in children is also now being traced; "one recent study suggests that children with a certain version of a gene that produces an enzyme known as MAO-A (which metabolizes neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine) are significantly more likely to become violent—but only if they were mistreated as children. |
| This work was later applied to humans, where it was shown to reduce the time it took for bone fractures to heal. Dr. Becker's work helped to establish the piezoelectric properties of connective tissue, which encases and joins all the other structures of our body. In the 1970s, Nobel Laureate Albert SzentrGyorgi reawakened inter est in the subject. He reminded scientists that: "Molecules do not have to touch each other to interact. Energy can flow through...the electromagnetic field. |
Mark Sircus
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 For example, in countries such as India, Japan, and Peru where average daily calcium intake is as low as 300 mg/day (less than a third of the US recommendation for adults, ages 19-50), the incidence of bone fractures is quite low. Of course, these countries differ in other important bone-health factors as well - such as level of physical activity and amount of sunlight - which could account for their low fracture rates. Calcium in Milk, Harvard School of Public Health; For more, see: www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html
13 Northwestern University; Nutrition Fact Sheet: www. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And we now recognize that vitamin D is very important for muscle function, and that people who are vitamin D deficient are prone to have muscle weakness, they're more likely to fall and they're more likely to have bone fractures. We also know that if you're vitamin D deficient, not only does it precipitate and exacerbate osteoporosis in older men and women, but it causes a very subtle and quite devastating bone disease known as osteomalatia. Long story short, osteomalatia is like adult rickets. And what it does is it causes severe bone discomfort, achiness in the bones and also in the muscles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So it could very well be that both groups had a reduced risk of bone fractures, but since that reduction was the same in both groups, the study declares that supplements are useless. The key here is in recognizing that the control group wasn't really a control group. It was another variable group, where the method of intervention was education rather than supplements. If you teach a thousand senior citizens how to prevent falls, you're going to see a reduction in falls and fractures, regardless of bone mineral density. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Adolescents who consume soft drinks display a risk of bone fractures three to four-fold higher than those who do not."
"Sugar and acid in soft drinks so easily dissolve tooth enamel."
"Americans drink 13.15 billion gallons of carbonated drinks every year."
William Duffy
The doctor speaking in these dialogs is, Dr. McCay, the nutritionist at the Naval Medical Research Institute.
"I was amazed to learn," he testified, "that the beverage contained substantial amounts of phosphoric acid. . . . |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They could be equally effective at preventing bone fractures.
Again, not one of the mainstream press stories that reported this bothered to examine the facts on this study. I haven't found a single journalist covering this study who actually looked at the structure of the study with any degree of skepticism. It just goes to show you: the mainstream press will print anything, no matter how ridiculous the conclusions, as long as it appears to come from a legitimate source and agrees with the financial interests of advertisers.
The bottom line? |
| REPPED: Based on a new research study published in The Lancet (April, 2005), newspaper headlines around the world are proclaiming that senior citizens should throw away their calcium supplements and turn to prescription drugs as their primary treatment for osteoporosis and bone fractures. Gee, what a convenient message for Big Pharma. It's not like we haven't heard this before: remember the recent effort to try to convince people that vitamin E would kill them? |
| Dozens of previous (and better designed) studies have looked at this issue and have shown a clear 30% - 40% reduction in bone fractures due to wise supplementation with calcium and vitamin D. But organized medicine wants you to think that somehow the body doesn't need nutrition. Instead, its promoters want you to believe that only prescription drugs can help you -- as if toxic, synthetic chemicals were somehow more important for human health than the natural bone-building substances provided by nature for which our bodies were actually designed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Adolescents who consume soft drinks display a risk of bone fractures three to four-fold higher than those who do not."
"Sugar and acid in soft drinks so easily dissolve tooth enamel."
"Americans drink 13.15 billion gallons of carbonated drinks every year."
William Duffy
The doctor speaking in these dialogs is, Dr. McCay, the nutritionist at the Naval Medical Research Institute.
"I was amazed to learn," he testified, "that the beverage contained substantial amounts of phosphoric acid. . . . |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Almost nobody bothered to point out the remarkable reduction in bone fractures demonstrated by the test subjects who actually consumed their calcium.
It's no surprise, of course. There are days when I wonder whether there's a single iota of honesty or intelligence left in the popular press. Nearly all newspapers, magazines and TV news programs have sold their souls to Big Pharma, it seems, and so they report whatever they're told to report, even if it makes absolutely no sense. Many science writers can't even decipher the basics of critical thinking. They can only copy and paste. |
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