Beautiful Bones without Hormones

An orthopedic surgeon shares an all-natural, easy-to-follow program of diet and exercise to reduce the risk of osteoporosis and increase bone density without the use of hormones, with a breakdown of the amount of absorbable calcium in common foods, sixty calcium-rich recipes, an illustrated twenty-minute exercise routine, and information on the latest treatments. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Dr. Leon Root is an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, where he also serves as the Director of Rehabilitation Medicine and Director of the Back School Program. A Professor of Clinical Orthopedics at the Weill College of Medicine, Cornell University and a frequent guest on national media, he lives in New York City. Veteran book and magazine editor Betty Kelly Sargent’s work has been published in many magazines, including Cosmopolitan (where she served as the book editor for fifteen years) and Ladies Home Journal.