Laura Kelly - The Keep Your Bones Healthy Cookbook: A Nutrition Plan for Preventing and Treating Osteoporosis Naturally

The
HEALTHY
BONES

Nutrition Plan
and Cookbook

The
HEALTHY
BONES

Nutrition Plan
and Cookbook

How to Prepare and Combine
Whole Foods to Prevent and Treat
Osteoporosis Naturally

Dr. Laura Kelly
and Helen Bryman Kelly

Foreword by Sidney MacDonald Baker, MD

Chelsea Green Publishing
White River Junction, Vermont

Copyright 2016 by Laura Kelly and Helen Kelly.

All rights reserved.

Unless otherwise noted, all photographs copyright 2016 by Laura Kelly.

Unless otherwise noted, all illustrations copyright 2016 by Daniel Auber.

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Disclaimer

This book is intended as information, not medical advice. You must not rely on the information in this book as an alternative to medical advice from your doctor or other professional healthcare provider. If you have any specific questions about any medical matter, you should consult your doctor or other professional healthcare provider. If you think you may be suffering from any medical condition, you should seek immediate medical attention. You should never delay seeking medical advice, disregard medical advice, or discontinue medical treatment because of information in this book.

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Printed in the United States of America.

First printing June, 2016.

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Chelsea Green sees publishing as a tool for cultural change and ecological stewardship. We strive to align our book manufacturing practices with our editorial mission and to reduce the impact of our business enterprise in the environment. We print our books and catalogs on chlorine-free recycled paper, using vegetable-based inks whenever possible. This book may cost slightly more because it was printed on paper that contains recycled fiber, and we hope youll agree that its worth it. Chelsea Green is a member of the Green Press Initiative (www.greenpressinitiative.org), a nonprofit coalition of publishers, manufacturers, and authors working to protect the worlds endangered forests and conserve natural resources. The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan andCookbook was printed on paper supplied by Thomson-Shore that contains at least 30% postconsumer recycled fiber.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kelly, Laura, 1967 author. | Kelly, Helen, 1942

Title: The healthy bones nutrition plan and cookbook : how to prepare and combine whole foods to prevent and treat osteoporosis naturally / Laura Kelly, Helen Kelly.

Description: White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016008928| ISBN 9781603586245 (paperback) | ISBN 9781603586252 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: BonesDiseasesPrevention. | OsteoporosisPrevention. | Nutrition. | BISAC: COOKING / Health & Healing / General. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Diets. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Musculoskeletal. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Nutrition. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC RC931.O73 K45 2016 | DDC 641.5/63dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016008928

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Dedication

To my mother, who worked tirelessly to help me focus and guide my passion; to my grandmother, on her 100th birthday; to you, who read this book, for your curiosity and your strength; and to Nick, who has supported me in all ways, above and beyond, with love and patience.

Laura

For my daughter Laura, indefatigable in her search for root causes and truth and unshakable in her integrity, who has given of her time steadfastly and lovingly to restore my skeletal health; and to my husband, Chris Titterington, for driving two hours every two weeks to buy raw milk and supporting me staunchly in my quest for bone health.

My heart belongs to Chris.
Helen

To the people who bring wholesome food to market: the farmers who do not use pesticides, the pickers who are careful not to bruise, the transporters and the sellers, each taking care of the food so we can take care of ourselves and our families. Thank you. We offer our deepest respect and appreciation.

Laura and Helen

FOREWORD

It sure would be nice if the experts didnt keep changing the truth about whats good for us and what isnt. The truth about bone health has recently changed from calcium pills are good for you to calcium pills are bad for you. When the truth changes, professionals like me are in an awkward spot. I am invited to break an implicit rule of my artI should always inspire my patients with confidence in my knowledge. This rule demands that silence replace certain words, such as Oops and I dont know, which could lower exam scores and, presumably, the confidence of patients.

The loud Oops! merited by calcium supplements tumbling from the shelf where we keep our medical truths might go unnoticed in the racket over other recent medical flip-flops, including the reversal of the long-held consensus that fat is bad and the emergence of the new truth that fat is good and sugar and carbs are bad.

We may feel more comfortableor even joyfulabout saying Oops when the truth moves in the direction of common sense. For example, consider that neither of the authors of the book you are holding are bone specialists in the framework of the medical establishment. One of their key messages is its not that complicated. Its a powerful message that can help you join a positive trend in information technology, medical practice, and health outcomes.

The Healthy Bones Nutrition Plan and Cookbook is part of a sweeping change in how scientists, practitioners, and writers are thinking about health care and how people can shift their state of being from chronic illness to good health. These paths rise above the flat landscape of name-it, blameit, tame-it prescription-pad medicine to a lofty view of a multidimensional web that constitutes living systems. Once we have the vantage point of this interconnected system, we can see proximity in elements that previously seemed distantso that goings-on in your gut or brain become relevant to problems in your bones. The new way of thinking says: Let your personal health data talk to you about your personal lifestyle and treatment options. Those data will remind all of us of the ancient message to let food be our medicine.

The most significant lesson you may take from this book is that, in the realm of chronic illness, the target of treatment is not the disease but the individual. If you are chronically ill, the common-sense question is this: Is there something you need to add or something you need to avoid in order to favor Natures buoyant impulse toward healing? Laura Kelly and Helen Bryman Kelly apply this idea to osteoporosis, making the point that in most cases osteoporosis is not disease; rather, it is deficiency.