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Posted by -Beyond Health on Nov 3rd 2025

Discover Tips for Healthy Bones for a Lifetime

Building Strong Bones Is a Lifelong Project Preventing osteoporosis in old age should begin early. We build up our bone stores during childhood and young adulthood, reaching peak bone mass in our thirties. From that point forward, bone loss gradually begins. Bone is not static tissue. It is living, dynamic, and constantly renewed through a process called bone remodeling. Over roughly ten years, the adult skeleton is completely replaced in tiny sections. First, bone-resorbing cells called osteoclasts break down old bone; then bone-building cells called osteoblasts lay down new bone in its place. Sometime in our thirties, bone breakdown begins to outpace bone formation. That’s why the more bone we build early in life—through good nutrition and weight-bearing exercise—the better our odds of maintaining strong bones later on. But here’s the encouraging part: because bone is continually remodeled, improvement is possible at any age. Even people in their seventies and…

Nov 3rd 2025

Healthy Choices for the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day

Whether it’s having friends over to watch the Super Bowl or making your sweetheart feel special on Valentine’s Day, there’s a tendency to equate good times and feeling good with unhealthy food choices. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Although we live in an imperfect world and our choices aren’t always going to be ideal, the truth is our health is the result of the sum total of all the choices we make every day. So why not plan healthier choices for these two events? Watching the Super Bowl can be a time when the excitement and aggressive energy of watching two teams compete translates into compulsively and mindlessly chomping through bowls of potato chips and other high-calorie/low-nutrient snacks. But although you may be identifying with the guys battling it out on the field, they’re the ones burning up the calories, not you! If you’re in charge of food for the group, limit the amount given to each guest and make it healthy. A good-sized bowl of cut up raw vegetables wi…

Nov 3rd 2025

The Role of Exercise in Weight Loss

It may seem like a simple mathematical equation: One pound equals about 3,500 calories. If you want to lose one pound, you simply eat less and/or exercise more so that you consume 3,500 less calories than you’re burning. But the truth is more complex. Although if you eat less and exercise more, you can lose weight, most people who take this limited approach have a hard time and often wind up like our friend Debby who reported, “I exhausted myself losing five pounds, but they found me again!” As Raymond Francis says in Never Be Fat Again, overweight is a disease, a disease that can only be cured by normalizing body chemistry. This is done by permanently adopting a holistic lifestyle that supplies the body with all the nutrients it needs to be healthy, and eliminates toxins that interfere with good health. A body in optimal health sustains self-healing, self-regulating mechanisms that automatically shed excess pounds and then maintain a healthy weight. Regular exercise is…

Nov 3rd 2025

Want a Healthy Future? Limit Your Cell Phone Use.

As we envision a healthy future for ourselves, our children, and our planet this month, let’s take a look at cell phones. Although more than 90% of the US population now owns one, cell phones have never been proven safe. In fact, evidence for their ability to harm continues to accumulate. Although it’s too late to put the genie back in the bottle—we’ve become too dependent on our cell phones to give them up—both adults and especially children must limit cell phone use if we want a healthy future. Nutritionist Anne Louise Gittleman has pointed out that the kind of electromagnetic radiation cell phones emit causes subliminal stress that raises blood pressure and cortisol (a stress hormone) levels, alters blood sugar regulation, lowers thyroid hormone output and can interfere with getting a good night’s sleep. Cell phones also affect fertility and have been linked in children with behavioral disorders, learning difficulties and depression. Of particular concern have been…

Nov 3rd 2025

In Search of a Healthy Relationship with Food

Do you eat to live or live to eat? Neither could be called a healthy relationship with food. Eating to live—using food simply as fuel—takes the joy out of one of life’s great pleasures. On the other hand, giving food too much importance, either by living only for our next meal or obsessing lest we eat too much or eat the wrong things, isn’t a joyful or healthy relationship either.In a healthy relationship, we would look forward to our encounters with food. We would respond appropriately to our hunger cues by supplying ourselves with nourishing and tasty food (in the words of nutrition expert Mark Hyman, MD, “foods we love that love us back”), and we would eat until satisfied and no more. We would trust our body cues to maintain a weight that is perfect for us (although it might not conform to the latest fashion). But according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD), almost 10% of our population is struggling with one or more of the thre…

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