I'm new here and wanted to see if anyone can help me. I work out at sea, normally for 1 week but I can get held over for up to 6 weeks. I stand on my feet for 12 hr. a day just fore work. Sometimes I have a job where I walk, other times I stand, all on STEEL DECKS no cushion just hard surfaces. I have tried different shoes, Doctor Scholls blue ...

I have a new book out (toot toot).  It’s called “The Whole-Food Guide to Strong Bones.”  It’s an update of a book I published 10 years ago, and it is MUCH better.  Let me tell you a story from someone who read the old version.  She wrote to me that she had been through some bone problems – ...

I recently broke a wrist, and while it mended very quickly I was referred for a bonedensity scan, partly because of my age, 59.  The scan showed that my hip bones had good density, but the bones of my spine were 'thin', and I was prescribed alendronic acid.  I wonder how reliable such a diagnosis is, since this was the first ...

A reader’s 15-year-old-daughter has been suffering from “clicking bones” in her feet for the past two years.  It happens when she walks and affects the ankles and toes.  “The clicking is loud and very painful,” explains her mother.  “No one knows why and no one knows what to do.”  She ...