Treating Osteoporosis: What works for you?

Thanks for the reminder @contentandwell 🙃 I actually used to buy them all the time but just got away from eating them. Next shopping trip I plan to add them back to my snack pile. Working on a couple of pluots right now.

@sue225 Exactly, which is why I mentioned it to @johnbiship. 6 is too much for me. I am trying 4 now. At least when problems strike I am at home these days.
JK

@contentandwell so envious. 4 x 4 for me, maybe.

@sue225 Are you saying you have 4 prunes 4 times a day? I would live in the bathroom if I did that, yet as I said previously, my general state is the opposite, probably due to calcium intake.
JK

I was joking a bit. In my case the equivalent would be four senokot tablets.

@sue225 The advantage of prunes is that they are actually beneficial for osteoporosis. This is just one of many articles about that.
https://health.usnews.com/wellness/food/articles/2018-01-03/eating-for-your-bones
JK

Good article.

Thank you, JK, for the info! I read the entire US news article re bones; also the one re B-12, inasmuch as I am vegan, except for eating salmon.

@nancyguy Trying to get the nutrients that support your bones is very difficult I am finding. I track my food on myfitnesspal. I started because as always, I am trying to drop some pounds, but the bonus is that it tracks nutrients such as calcium and protein too. I only discovered recently that protein is very important too, our bones are 50% protein. If you have osteoporosis the recommended amount of protein is more than otherwise. So now I am trying to eat more protein too and it's getting very difficult to do that and keep my calories down.
Fairlife milk is high protein so I buying that now and trying to have a glass or two of that a day, It was recommended to me because it's lactose-free and I am lactose intolerant. The high protein content was a serendipity. I know there are some decent protein powders but I am not sure which are good and which are not considered to be good. I will try to research that more.
JK

Need to add protein powders to my diet. I've had to delete many foods from my diet (ckd, diabetes), but the biggest problem remains my IBS. If you would be so kind as to share what you find out about protein powders, I'd be a happy camper. Also, my husband has Dementia, which has affected his food-eating to a considerable extent. Anyone have sneaky ways to have him eat more nourishing meals, I'd appreciate hearing about them. One idea I've tried seems to work, and that is to ask my friends to save that little bit of leftover for me. It adds great variety to his diet, but relieves me of the problem of how to improve his diet without making quantities of food I can't eat.