Bouncing On a Trampoline Helped Me Beat Brittle Bones ; Marilyn Warnick has Seen Off Osteoporosis with Long Walks, Live Yogurt ...And a Few Alarms Along the Way

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Two years ago I had osteoporosis. And now I haven't, at least for the short term. Last July, a bone scan showed that my bone density has improved enough in four years of treatment for my consultant to take me off a bisphosonate drug. I was ecstatic.

Alarmingly, a report published online only days before by the British Medical Journal showed that taking these drugs can double the risk of cancer of the oesophagus. But what's a patient to do? Risk fractures, or cancer?

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Bouncing On a Trampoline Helped Me Beat Brittle Bones ; Marilyn Warnick has Seen Off Osteoporosis with Long Walks, Live Yogurt ...And a Few Alarms Along the Way

I had faithfully taken the pills as prescribed but had also done everything else I could possibly do to strengthen my bones. I'm not sure exactly what worked and what did not, but I do believe that exercise and diet have played a part.

Osteoporosis, a decrease in bone density that leads to porous bones, very often runs in families.

And it has just struck mine again. This w...

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