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Osteoporosis   Listen
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Osteoporosis  n.  (Med. & Physiol.) An absorption of bone so that the bone tissue becomes unusually porous. It occurs especially in elderly men and postmenopausal women, and predisposes the elderly to fractures of the bones.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Osteoporosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... temperature. But altered none the less. And made less digestible. Pasteurizing also makes milk calcium far less assimilable. That's ironic because so many people are drinking milk because they fear they need more calcium to avoid osteoporosis and to give their children good teeth. What pasteurized milk actually does to their children is make them calcium deficient and makes the children toxic, provoking many colds, ear infections, sinusitis, inflammations ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon



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