Annemarie Colbin - Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones

Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D., is a health educator and award-winning writer, consultant, and lecturer. She is the founder and CEO of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City, which offers a licensed and accredited career program in natural foods cuisine. The associated Natural Gourmet Institute for Food and Health offers avocational classes in health-supportive cooking and natural healing to the general public. Colbin has also taught at several New York City schools, including the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the New York City Open Center, Touro College, and Empire State College. She is author of several books including Food and Healing and writes a column, Food and Your Health, for New York Spirit magazine. Colbin offers private wellness consultations. She lives in New York City with her husband, journalist Bernard Gavzer. You can learn more about the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts at www.naturalgourmetinstitute.com.

Foreword author Mark Hyman, MD, is coauthor of The Detox Box and the best-selling Ultraprevention. He is editor-in-chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, the most prestigious journal in the field of integrative medicine. Hyman lives in western Massachusetts.

The bones of the body renew themselves every seven years. With the wholesome wisdom of this book, you can help your bones provide a firm scaffold for your body.

Mehmet C. Oz, MD, coauthor of YOU: The Owners Manual and YOU: Staying Young

Annemarie Colbin is a long-time mentor of mine. The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones combines her wisdom with much common sense.

Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones gives readers the recipe for maintaining bone health without medication. It is a must-read for anyone interested in preserving or restoring the health of their bones.

Joel M. Evans, MD, assistant clinical professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, founder and director of the Center for Womens Health in Stamford, CT, and author of The Whole Pregnancy Handbook

TheWhole-Food Guide to Strong Bones provides the knowledge and inspiration for maintaining a lifelong healthy skeleton. This brilliantly written book is a must-read, especially for those who may be at risk for osteoporosis.

Carol Ellis, MD, medical director of Natural Medicine and Rehabilitation in Branchburg, NJ

This book by Annemarie Colbin, one of Americas most respected food therapists, gives us a definitive guide to maximizing bone health as nature intendedwith a balanced diet and lifestyle. Her evidence-based approach (replete with discussions of hundreds of published clinical studies) makes this book an important reference for both consumers and healthcare professionals. Plus, the recipes are fabulous.

Woodson Merrell, MD, chairman of the Department of Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, author of The Source

Annemarie Colbin is a brilliant nutritionist who has once again shown that optimal well-being can be found through living a naturally healthy lifestyle. At a time when our healthcare specialists rely too much on medications, she presents a program that relies on whole foods, exercise, and spiritual understanding. Im happy to prescribe this book first for anyone wishing to keep their bones strong and live long.

Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD, cofounder and chairman of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY, author of Time Shifting, and coauthor of The Omega Vitality and Wellness Book

Movement and exercise are necessary to healthy living. But exercise is difficult if you do not have a healthy, strong bone structure to support muscle function. I look forward to giving my patients Annemarie Colbins newest book, The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones, as it presents the most comprehensive yet understandable approach to bone health that I have encountered.

Nancy L. Shaw, MA, MTPT, director of the Myofascial Pain Treatment Center in Washington, DC, founder of the National Association of Myofascial Trigger Point Therapists and the Shaw Myotherapy Institute

Another classic from the mother of whole food eating, who influenced so many of us with her book Food and Healing over twenty years ago. Her sage advice in The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones is essential for everyone concerned about bone loss and what to do about it.

Frank Lipman, MD, author, Spent: End Exhaustion and Feel Great Again

Annemarie Colbin provides a practical, user-friendly way for all of us to use the foods we eat to build up the bones that keep us moving happily and healthfully ahead.

James S. Gordon, MD, founder and director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine and author of Unstuck

Publishers Note

The medical and health information in this book are based on the training, experience, and research of the author. The mission of this book is to inform and educate the general public. It is not to give individualized health advice. Because each person and situation is unique, readers should check with their health professionals before following this or any other program. Both the author and the publisher specifically disclaim any liability for loss or risk, personal or otherwise, incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of the contents of this book.

Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books

Copyright 2009 by Annemarie Colbin

New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

5674 Shattuck Avenue

Oakland, CA 94609

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All Rights Reserved

Acquired by Jess OBrien

Cover design by Amy Shoup

Edited by Jasmine Star

Epub ISBN: 978-1-60882-xxx-x

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as:

Colbin, Annemarie.

Whole foods for strong bones : a holistic approach / Annemarie Colbin ; foreword by Mark Hyman.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN-13: 978-1-57224-580-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-57224-580-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Osteoporosis--Prevention--Popular works. 2. Osteoporosis--Diet therapy--Popular works. 3. Osteoporosis--Nutritional aspects--Popular works. 4. Natural foods--Popular works. I. Title.

RC931.O73C643 2008

616.7160654--dc22

2008039812

Part of my motivation for writing books is that I want to share useful information with my children without being always the nagging mom. I figure that if its in a book, they can check it out when theyre ready for the subject matter, and I dont have to be there. Now this motivation also applies to my grandchildren, present and future. Therefore I dedicate this book to Elijah Jaspar Dunn, Anika Luna Dunn, and Sunya Simone Lujan Gavzer, and whoever else comes along in the future, hoping they will live long, happy, healthy, and productive lives.