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mrsD · 02-23-2010, 06:50 AM

Okay, here are some links:

http://www.mgwater.com/rod15.shtml

and:

Quote:

Curr Osteoporos Rep. 2009 Dec;7(4):111-7.
Osteoporosis prevention and nutrition.

Tucker KL.

USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, 711 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA. Katherine.tucker@tufts.edu

Although calcium and vitamin D have been the primary focus of nutritional prevention of osteoporosis, recent research has clarified the importance of several additional nutrients and food constituents. Further, results of calcium and vitamin D supplementation trials have been inconsistent, suggesting that reliance on this intervention may be inadequate. In addition to dairy, fruit and vegetable intake has emerged as an important modifiable protective factor for bone health. Several nutrients, including magnesium, potassium, vitamin C, vitamin K, several B vitamins, and carotenoids, have been shown to be more important than previously realized. Rather than having a negative effect on bone, protein intake appears to benefit bone status, particularly in older adults. Regular intake of cola beverages shows negative effects and moderate alcohol intake shows positive effects on bone, particularly in older women. Current research on diet and bone status supports encouragement of balanced diets with plenty of fruit and vegetables, adequate dairy and other protein foods, and limitation of foods with low nutrient density.

PMID: 19968914 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Also, some research finds that boron, and strontium are helpful too. Some supplements are including these two as well.
The B vit most often referenced is B12.
Also Omega-3 fatty acids are helpful too:

Quote:

Prog Lipid Res. 1997 Sep;36(2-3):131-51.
Calcium metabolism, osteoporosis and essential fatty acids: a review.

Kruger MC, Horrobin DF.

Department of Physiology, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Essential fatty acid (EFA)-deficient animals develop severe osteoporosis coupled with increased renal and arterial calcification. This picture is similar to that seen in osteoporosis in the elderly, where the loss of bone calcium is associated with ectopic calcification of other tissues, particularly the arteries and the kidneys. Recent mortality studies indicate that the ectopic calcification may be considerably more dangerous than the osteoporosis itself, since the great majority of excess deaths in women with osteoporosis are vascular and unrelated to fractures or other bone abnormalities. EFAs have now been shown to increase calcium absorption from the gut, in part by enhancing the effects of vitamin D, to reduce urinary excretion of calcium, to increase calcium deposition in bone and improve bone strength and to enhance the synthesis of bone collagen. These desirable actions are associated with reduced ectopic calcification. The interaction between EFA and calcium metabolism deserves further investigation since it may offer novel approaches to osteoporosis and also to the ectopic calcification associated with osteoporosis which seems to be responsible for so many deaths.

PMID: 9624425 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

If you type in "magnesium osteoporosis" into PubMed search or Google, you will find alot of other things to read.

So really good nutrition with a diet containing all these nutrients is best.

And the really alarming thing about the current drugs used for osteoporosis...the bisphosphonates..like Boniva, Fosamax, etc are the freak fractures with no warning that occur after long term use.
This situation, IMO will lead to these drugs being discarded as a treatment in the future. The osteoclasts are suppressed which stop bone loss....but these drugs appear to stop osteoblast activity, which means the bones actually die, and become more brittle, and can break with very little force and no warning! (injury not needed).
The pelvic fractures were the first to appear, and now the femur ones are being reported.