Free Lecture: Building Bone Vitality by Amy Joy Lanou, Phd., 6/25/2009, 7:00 pm

June 23, 2009

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Free Lecture: Building Bone Vitality by Amy Joy Lanou, Phd.

Date:

Thursday June 25, 2009 Time:

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location:

Institute on Aging

Street:

3600 Geary Blvdd,(Palm & Arguello)

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A free lecture will be presented by Amy Joy Lanou, PhD and author Building Bone Vitality sponsored by the San Francisco Vegetarian Society. She will be discussing her book containing the latest clinical studies and the most up-to-date medical information to help strengthen bones, reduce the risk of fractures, and prevent osteoporosis. Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009 Time: 7:00 p.m. Place: Institute on Aging 3600 Geary Blvdd,(Palm & Arguello) San FranciscoBook signing and non-dairy milk tasting to follow Dr. Lanou’s lecture.Dr. Lanou is an assistant professor of health and wellness for the University of North Carolina-Asheville (UNCA) where she teaches nutrition, women’s health, food politics, and understanding chronic disease. Her current research interests include nutrition for the prevention of chronic disease, how self-efficacy impacts health behaviors, and nutrition and bone health. She is also senior nutrition scientist for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a Washington, D.C. – based nonprofit organization where she focuses her research and projects on efforts to help laypersons and health care professionals shift to low-fat vegetarian diets for promotion of long-term wellness. She publishes regularly on the relationship between dairy products and health concerns. Her most recent paper in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition delineates the reasons why dairy products should not be recommended in vegetarian diets. Another paper in Pediatrics titled “Calcium, dairy and bone health in children and young adults; a reevaluation of the evidence,” shows that currently available evidence does not support the notion that dairy product consumption promotes bone health in young people. Her book introduces a Revolutionary Plan to Prevent Bone Loss and Reverse Osteoporosis. For years, doctors and scientists have been telling us to drink milk, eat dairy products and take calcium pills to improve our bone vitality. The

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