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Editorial Review: "Gill Sanson's book is a well-researched breath of fresh air that will help women everywhere better trust the wisdom of their bodies." -- Christiane Northrup, M.D. The Myth of Osteoporosis is a research-based work that provides clear insight into the myths of osteoporosis. These myths motivate both patient and physician into a lifetime of unnecessary testing and drug therapy — therapy that can in fact be life-threatening. Gillian Sanson's well-documented explanation of these myths can spare women great anxiety. She takes the fear out of aging and restores women's sense of control over their bodies. She gives women good reasons for challenging the common way that osteoporosis is handled in the United States and in many other industrialized nations.
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 found this review helpful:
Just read it!, 2008-03-12
This book completely changed my view about osteopenia and osteoporosis. Please, read it, specially if you're diagnosed osteopenia. I'm a very healthy woman and didn't have the habit or the necessity of taking any drugs since I discovered I have osteopenia. The doctor prescribed me Fosamax in order to try to avoid early osteoporosis. For the first time in my life I was taking a "serious" drug. I started to get fatter and fatter in my belly region. And then I read this book! It was my salvation and I'm back to normal healthy life.
3 of 3 found this review helpful:
A sleeper has awakened, 2007-11-28
When I was told I had osteopenia my (female) doctor handed me a prescription and a tri-fold pamphlet and told me to take calcium. When I went to the pharmacy to fill the prescription I asked the pharmacist to go over the potential side-effects of the drug with me. He looked at me like I had two heads. That was my introduction to becoming a "victim" of "bone disease". I went home and began to surf the Internet - searching for anything I could find on osteopenia and osteoporosis. And then I read this book! I came to the stunned realization that for most of my adult life I blindly followed doctor's orders, living in a sheep-like trance - plodding through life medicated at the whim of people who are bought and sold by Big Pharma. This is a ground-breaking book, filled not only with insight but hard facts. Thank God for Gillian Sanson.
7 of 7 found this review helpful:
Excellent!, 2007-11-18
I recently had a DEXA bone
scan and was diagnosed with
osteoporosis (or low bone
density). My doctor was
very "dramatic" when she tried
to explain the big DANGER
that I was headed toward. She
said, "You'll break a hip and
end up in a nursing home and you
will die. That's your prognosis
if you don't do something about
this NOW." She hit her wrist
very forcefully and said, "You
cannot do this, because if you
do, your wrist will break and
it will not heal." Luckily, I
act from information and not
panic, and this sounded very
one-sided to me. She strongly
recommended that I take
injections every
day for one year to build
up bone mass. I am only 48
years old and am very healthy,
other than this
low bone density condition. (My
life style has been to eat well
and exercise since I was very
young. I have never smoked and
drank very little. I am
at my proper weight, which has
never fluctuated more than 10
pounds, and many
people think that I am ten years
younger.) This
book was God-sent! After reading
it, I got blood tested for Vitamin D deficiency.
I learned that I had no Vitamin D
in my system, which most Americans
are in the same boat! (I am rarely out in the sun
for long periods of time, other than
driving.) Therefore I was not
absorbing the calcium from my proper
nutrition. I got on
1,000 mg. of Vitamin D per day, in addition
to my usual multi-vitamin supplements, and
added a small portion of healthy fat
(butter on toast, or a small slice
of avocado with the tiny Vitamin D pill since it
is fat soluable; in other words your
body will not absorb Vitamin D unless
one eats a little fat along with it...My diet
does not include much fat, so I make sure to
eat a small portion of fat with the Vitamin D.) Within
hours I felt like someone had 'plugged
me into the wall!' I had so much energy,
and two weeks later I still feel unusually
healthier and with more energy than I ever
remember. I have to remind myself to go
to bed by my usual time, which is 10:30 or 11,
because I am so energized! Because of this
book and others that I have read to
research the BIG SCARE OF OSTEOPOROSIS
by the medical "experts" I was able
to zero in on my own particular body
without drugs that cause other dangerous
side effects, like bone cancer. The FDA
has approved this drug for bone building
with the highest level warning on the box.
The new bones are not strong,but fragile AND this
drug caused cancer in laboratory rats.
The MYTH about Osteoporosis helped me to
become familiar with many well-researched
facts regarding bone mass and the DEXA machines,
Bottom line is that NO machine can predict whether
or not one will fall and break
a hip due to bone density! The book is jam
packed with information. These
machines are all set by their various
manufacturers and the data that
they use to compare the individual
being scanned to other person's bone mass
does not make sense! EVERY WOMAN SHOULD
READ THIS INFORMATIVE BOOK!!!
TO PREVENT
BEING SCARED AND/OR BULLIED BY DOCTORS!
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
The MYTH of Osteoporosis empowers, 2007-10-18
The Myth of Osteoporosis was on a Website for imported bungee bounders I was browsing. Filled with informative details based on studies and research the pages within set records straight and empower the reader.
What Every Woman Should Know About Creating Bone Health, as this book states on the cover, is particular informative to all women caught up in a cycle of testing and expensive medication, due to Osteoporosis or Osteopenia.
The book offers straight facts, which in turn provides a solid foundation to form your own sound strategy. With the information in this book, we are better equipped to make informed decisions about our own bone health.
12 of 12 found this review helpful:
Some interesting information but highly repetitive, 2007-07-26
I was scared and discouraged when I got
a note from my doctor indicating some
significant bone density loss since my
last bone scan 3 years ago (a subsequent
visit with the doctor revealed the note
had been confusing and partially inaccurate).
The book mentions how frightening an
osteopenia diagnosis can be, and contains
interesting statistics on fracture
rates; the possibility of these
conditions being overdiagnosed;
the notion that normal female aging
is being over-medicalized by
drug companies; the fact that the
miracle drugs have serious side effects;
and the fact that women (and to some
extent doctors) are confused.
All of this is to the good.
BUT - the book is annoyingly repetitive.
It's not a very long book to begin
with and I'll bet if all the repetitive
ideas were removed, it would be no
more than half its length...
It's more like an article that was
reconfigured into a book but without
the addition of more substance.
So - worth reading but not nearly
as good as I anticipated (and hoped) based on the other readers'
glowing recommendations.
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