Read Any Good Books On Osteoporosis Lately?

Easy read. TONS of good information. Just what the doctor ordered.

Strong Women, Strong Bones starts with the requisite anatomy, then quickly becomes a reader-centered guide to osteoporosis. If you don’t already have osteoporosis, you can start by assessing your risk, via a simple but thorough questionnaire. If you already know you have osteoporosis or osteopenia, you can skip right to the “what to do about it” sections, where you’ll learn more than you thought possible about diet, and exercise.

Drugs are covered, but minimally, and I found this entirely appropriate. With osteoporosis medications changing all the time, any printed information quickly becomes outdated. I’d advise you to skip the section on drugs entirely, and rely instead on your health care provider, and this site, for questions you have about drugs.

With an easy to read glossary (wondering what parathyroid hormone is?), to a comprehensive section of illustrated exercises, to a “bone-healthy shopping list” and calcium-rich sample menus, Strong Women, Strong Bones tells you everything you need to know about osteoporosis (and how to deal with it) in the friendliest, easiest way imaginable. 

One caveat: The original was published in 2000, an updated and revised edition in 2006; try to get the revised edition, simply because the original includes information about hormone replacement therapy that’s now blatantly out of date.

Strong Women, Strong Bones, by Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D. and Sarah Wernick, Ph.D.; 320-page softcover, illustrations.