Show 752: Bone Vitality (Archive)
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2010
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
For years, women have been admonished to drink milk and eat yogurt so that they will have enough calcium to keep their bones strong. Calcium supplements have become big business, and foods like orange juice have been fortified with calcium.
How good is the science supporting all this calcium to fight bone loss? We talk with a medical writer and a top nutrition scientist about a different dietary approach to osteoporosis prevention.
Guests for This Show:
Michael Castleman is a medical journalist and author of more than a dozen books. His latest, co-authored with Amy Joy Lanou, PhD, is Building Bone Vitality: A Revolutionary Diet Plan to Prevent Bone Loss and Reverse Osteoporosis.
Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, is Chairman of the Department of Nutrition and Frederick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard University’s School of Public Health. The photo is of Dr. Willett.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.3 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.2 | This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
| 0:16.0 | 800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com. |
| 0:31.8 | Taking calcium is supposed to keep bone strong. |
| 0:35.1 | But how good is calcium for preventing osteoporosis? |
| 0:39.1 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graydon. |
| 0:50.9 | Osteoporosis is devastating, since it can lead to broken bones and all the problems that they bring. |
| 0:57.0 | But studies of calcium have been surprisingly disappointing. |
| 1:00.0 | Does the dose need to be even higher? |
| 1:02.0 | Or has calcium been oversold? |
| 1:05.0 | Ads featuring celebrities with milk moustaches are eye-catching, |
| 1:09.0 | but perhaps they're leading us astray. Could the solution to |
| 1:11.9 | osteoporosis be an entirely different way of eating? Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we'll talk |
| 1:17.0 | with leading nutrition expert Dr. Walter Willett about his recommendations for preventing osteoporosis. |
| 1:25.6 | First, this news. |
| 1:35.6 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, marijuana may offer relief from pain. |
| 1:43.7 | A very small study from McGill University in Montreal suggests that pot might ease chronic nerve pain called neuropathy. 21 adults who suffered from neuropathic pain brought on by surgery or accident |
| 1:50.0 | were randomized to receive low dose, medium dose, and high dose marijuana or placebo cigarettes. |
| 1:57.0 | The subjects rated their pain on an 11-point scale. |
| 2:00.0 | They were also questioned about quality of life factors such as mood and sleep. |
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