150 Most-Asked Questions About Osteoporosis: What Women Really Want to Know - Hardcover

Jacobowitz, Ruth S.

9780688123345: 150 Most-Asked Questions About Osteoporosis: What Women Really Want to Know

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688123341 ISBN 13: 9780688123345

Publisher: Hearst Books, 1993

Clearing up many misconceptions about osteoporosis, a disease that may threaten half of all women over fifty, a lucid guide offers understandable advice based on the latest medical knowledge about this preventable disease. 50,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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From Library Journal:

Osteoporosis causes 1.5 million bone fractures every year; 80 percent of the victims are women who lose bone mass rapidly when their bodies stop producing estrogen. This disabling process can be prevented and treated with a combination of exercise, diet, hormone replacement, and calcium supplements. Both these books explain the condition and its treament adequately. Jacobowitz uses a question-and-answer format while Lyon and Sutton offer a more detailed narrative presentation. They also explain the anatomy and physiology of bone structure and provide recipes for calcium-rich dishes and exercise regimens. Both books contain glossaries, bibliographies, and referral lists. While Dr. Morris Notelovitz's Menopause and Midlife Health ( LJ 6/15/93) and Dr. Kenneth Cooper's Preventing Osteoporosis ( LJ 4/15/89) provide superior coverage of the subject, either of these new books would be acceptable additions to consumer health collections that need more osteoporosis material.
- Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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