Strong bones are important for healthy aging. To avoid osteoporosis and up your bone density, eat leafy greens, quit smoking, and drink your milk! Watch Health magazine contributor Samantha Heller’s appearance on the Today show on March 26 to learn more.
SAMANTHA HELLER
Samantha Heller, RD, is the nutrition coordinator at the Fairfield Connecticut YMCA. A certified dietitian/nutritionist and exercise physiologist, Heller earned her master’s degree in nutrition and applied physiology from Teachers College at Columbia University. She served as the senior clinical nutritionist and exercise physiologist at NYU Medical center in New York City for almost a decade and created and ran the outpatient nutrition program for the NYU Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. She has also been a fitness instructor for 15 years. Heller specializes in nutrition, wellness, stress management, and fitness for people who are fighting heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and obesity.
A contributing editor to Health magazine, her writing has also appeared in numerous other magazines, including Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, and Glamour, as well as sites such as Fitness.com.
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A good diet with balanced number of vitamins and useful minerals can really help to make the bones strong and healthy. And by the way, the scientists have found out that arthritis and osteoporosis can lead to respiratory diseases.
i have osteoporosis and have calcium tablets and fosamax for it. i have been on them for 4 years now. but i seem to be getting pain in my groin now and in the back of my neck is this to do with it as well it wakes me up at night with pain please cane you tell me if i need more calcium the one i am on is calcichew-d3 forte 500mg caicium/400iu colecalciferol thank you please reply lesley.
I have dextroscoliosis. I don’t like the taste of milk as well as taking calcium tablets. What are the things I need to do to prevent it from getting worse?