Reversing Osteopenia or Giving The Love That Heals

Reversing Osteopenia: The Definitive Guide to Spotting and Teating Early Bone Loss in Women of All Ages

Author: Harris H McIlwain

For the eighteen million American women afflicted with early bone-loss disease, here is the first comprehensive guide to identifying and controlling the condition before it progresses to osteoporosis

Osteoporosis, which afflicts more than half of all American women over the age of fifty, is a widespread and all-too-familiar problem. Osteopenia, a milder bone-loss disease that is the forerunner of osteoporosis, is less well known but affects an estimated eighteen million young and middle-aged women-including women in their late teens and early twenties. Since many doctors associate low bone density exclusively with postmenopausal women, millions of women in their childbearing years suffer from undetected bone loss, putting them at risk for debilitating fractures down the road.

In Reversing Osteopenia, Dr. Harris H. McIlwain and his two daughters, also rheumatologists, fill the knowledge gap about this easily diagnosable disease, help younger women recognize the risk factors for bone loss, and provide a five-step program for controlling and even preventing bone loss. Their age-specific recommendations for women in their twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties include

- exercises that strengthen rather than threaten your bones

- new information about foods that build bone density

- ways to avoid medicines that rob bones of their strength

- recommendations of natural dietary supplements

This groundbreaking book offers new hope for young women at risk for osteopenia.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Step 1 : baby your bones	1
Ch. 2	Step 2 : the bone-building workout	26
Ch. 3	Step 3 : feed your bones	53
Ch. 4	Step 4 : take strong steps to prevent fractures	78
Ch. 5	Step 5 : an integrative medicine approach	90
Ch. 6	Special situations	119
Ch. 7	Bone-building recipes	148
Ch. 8	Bone-building exercises	187

Interesting book:

Giving The Love That Heals

Author: Harville Hendrix

Harville Hendrix has illuminated the paths to healthy, loving relationships in his New York Times bestsellers Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find. Now, with his coauthor and wife, Helen Hunt, he brings us to a new understanding of the most profound love of all -- by helping parents nurture their own development as they encourage emotional wholeness in their children.

This groundbreaking book offers a unique opportunity for personal transformation: by resolving issues that originated in our own childhood, we can achieve a conscious, and thus healthier, relationship with our children, regardless of their age. Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt help us explore:

• The Imago -- the fantasy partner that our unconscious mind constructs from those we loved as a child, a that has guided our search for a life partner
• Maximizer and Minimizer parents -- the defensive styles that internally shape what we say and how interact with our children
• A Parenting Process that helps to end the "cycle of wounding" -- the handing-down of wounding we received as children -- as we raise our own children
• Safety, Support, and Structure -- how to give children what they really need from us
• Modeling Adulthood -- using our healed sense of self as a model for our children.

With other practical, insightful approaches that can powerfully shape the parent-child bond, Giving the Love that Heals gives us the keys to helping our children to become healthy, responsible, and caring people.

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Having advised couples and singles, Hendrix now offers tips for parents.