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The Denver Film Critics Society announced its choice for best film of 2015 Monday. And it may come as a surprise to many awards tabulators and prognosticators: "American Sniper."
The Denver Film Critics Society announced its choice for best film of 2015 Monday. And it may come as a surprise to many awards tabulators and prognosticators: "American Sniper."
By week's end Colorado will be host to two of moviedom's finest iconoclasts when director Paul Thomas Anderson arrives in town for a special Alamo Drafthouse Cinema-Littleton screening of his latest, "Inherent Vice." Based on Thomas Pynchon's novel, the altered states "surf noir" stars an indelible Joaquin Phoenix as Doc Sportello.
As Post readers know, early in December, Quentin Tarantino began production on "The Hateful Eight" in Telluride. Now the maker of "Boogie Nights" and "There Will Be Blood" is headed to town with his wild adaptation of Pynchon's novel. Read more…
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Out ahead of his comedy "Top Five," writer-director-star Chris Rock has been giving interviews both thought-tweaking and entertaining. But it may be his Dec. 12 essay, penned for industry mag The Hollywood Reporter, that has been quoted most. And it's sure to be fodder — along with Bill Cosby's plummet, the TV series "Jane the Virgin" and Ava DuVernay's "Selma" — for tonight's panel "Doors Open, Doors Closed: Can We Laugh, Dance, Write Poetry, and Sing about RACE?" at History Colorado, part of the museum's "Race: Are We So Different?" lecture series.
Rock's piece should nudge the conversation for good reason: "It's a White Industry. It Just Is" is whipsmart about race and racism. It's especially wise about Hollywood's version of the latter. For one, Rock goes beyond the black-and-white paradigm that dogs so much of the nation's conversation (for necessary but also stuck reasons). Read more…
"Man on Wire" was one of the finest films of 2008. James Marsh's documentary about French aerialist Philippe Petit's traversing of a cable stretched across the World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974 went on to win the Oscar for best documentary feature. The film was a thing of beauty — capturing the epic and transcendent, and, yes, the mournful: Ah, those towers in their, reach-for-the-Heavens brazenness. That year, the film made my top 10 list with the greatest of ease:
In 1974, Philippe Petit has referred to his love of cable and height as an "absurd arrogance." How thankful we should be for this brand of cockiness. James Marsh mixes real footage as well as re-created scenes of the buildup to that feat and interviews with the participants. The documentary unfolds like a heist flick. Only instead of stealing valuables, Petit gives us something invaluable.
Next year, director Robert Zemeckis brings Petit's book "Reach the Clouds" to the big, ahem, really, big screen. "The Walk" is slated for IMAX 3-D screens come October 2015. The director of "Back to the Future," "Forrest Gump," "Polar Express" likes to embrace cinema's tech possibilities. But it's the human as the heart of this story who boosts my hopes. Zemeckis is blessed or wise (both) to have Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit. Here's the teaser out today.
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Who says only bad things come in threes? Clearly they are unaware of Colorado's robust documentary film scene. Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled its list of 15 non-fiction features vying for the five Oscar nominations to be announced Jan. 15. This afternoon the big kahuna of U.S. film festivals, Sundance, began revealing its competition films. Nestled in the list of U.S. docs: Daniel Junge's "Being Evel," about daredevil Evel Knievel, and Louie Psihoyos' "Racing Extinction." Read more…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its list of the 15 documentary features that will advance in the Oscar race. Colorado's doc-making power is well represented by first-time director Alan Hicks' "Keep On Keepin' On," produced by Paula DuPré Pesmen and edited and co-written by Davis Coombe.
Intimate and celebratory, "Keep On' Keepin' On" focuses on the relationship between jazz master and brilliant mentor Clark Terry and pianist Justin Kauflin. A prodigy, Kauflin has been blind since 11.
Terry, or "C.T." as everyone refers to the trumpet and flugelhorn legend, is beginning to lose his eyesight due to complications from diabetes. Hicks' film achieves a rare grace as it recounts a number of love stories: There is the profound and sweet connection the Terry and Kauflin share as teacher and student; the abiding ardor the two have for jazz; and, most tenderly, the relationship of Clark Terry and wife Gwen.
While I took a pause from writing a theater review on a musical set in 1930s Budapest, a dear colleague shouted to me across a rather empty Black Friday newsroom, "The new 'Star Wars' trailer is out!"
"Are you excited?" I asked, pure set up.
"#$%* Yeah!"
He then proceeded to bounce up an down on one of those
exercise balls that are replacing desk chairs. Up and down like a kid on candy-cane crack. Yes, Christmas came early for one Barry Osborne and no doubt millions more "Star Wars" loyalists. The Force awakens, indeed.
The first trailer for "Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens," set to open December 2015.
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Hundreds of young swimmers appeared undaunted by the single-digit cold Saturday afternoon as they awaited the red-carpet arrival of gold medal champion Missy Franklin and her London Olympics teammate Kara Lynn Joyce outside the Buell Theatre in Denver. Like their aquatic heroes, they have practiced in worse.
Franklin and Joyce star in the documentary "Touch the Wall," by co-directors Christo Brock and Grant Barbeito. The movie received its world premiere at the 37th Starz Denver Film Festival.
"I thought it was outstanding and amazing. It made me want to go swim right then and there," Hunter Foehner said, standing in the lobby of the Buell after the screening and Q&A led by Channel 9's Cheryl Preheim. "It was very inspirational. It's now my favorite movie of the year."
"Inspirational" was the word the 11-year-old swimmer, friends and sister used again and again to describe directors Christo Brock and Grant Barbeito's fly-buzzing-above-the chlorine doc about the Colorado phenom and teammate Kara Lynn Joyce. Foehner, sister Emily, and friends Avery and Ashlyn Campbell and Jackie Mudd swim for the Governor's Ranch Gators and the D.U. Hilltoppers.
"I never really saw the bond between these two until the movie," added Mudd, 12. "I thought they were absolutely gorgeous and amazing, true inspirations."
"Grant and Christo are absolutely amazing," Franklin said of her two directors as she made her way along the red carpet. "They started with me when I was 14. It was kind of scary that these two guys wanted to come and make a movie about me."
Franklin recalled thinking: "I'm 14, why do you wanna come make a movie about me?" She punctuated the memory with her trademark big laugh and blazing-wattage smile.
The answer is apparent on the big screen as the film follows Franklin's and Joyce's journeys. At the 2012 London Olympics, Joyce was 26. And "Touch the Wall" impressively documents the vital friendship of two athletes — Franklin at the start of her career and Joyce nearing retirement.
"Touch the Wall" was the first of the festival's two red-carpet matinees. The premiere had more attendees than Wednesday's opening night affair. And not merely because the temperature had risen slightly — Franklin is a hometown hero, so the locals turned out.
"There was a lot of trust," Barbeito said of the four-year endeavor — much of that trust was built with Franklin's parents, Dick and D.A. Other media would arrive, shoot and go. The difference was that Barbeito and Brock stayed with the story over time. Think more 800-meter freestyle than 50 meter. "We weren't trying to make anything happen," said Brock. "We were there to see things unfold."
As were the people gathered at the nearby Backstage cafe, warming up before queuing for "Touch the Wall."
Among those was former Regis Jesuit High School English teacher Mike Meagher. He had signed a waiver when Brock and Barbeito were shooting at the school. Meagher wasn't sure he'd make the film's final cut, but he's in it.
"Missy's the real deal," he said of his former student. "She worked hard at being normal, just one of the gang. And she was."
He added, "I will make a prediction: She will be on 'Dancing with the Stars' in three years." For the moment, she was on the Buell's big screen on Big Night.
The first Saturday of the Denver Film Society's annual extravaganza has, in terms of buzz, started to vie with opening night. With the matinee show, the film society has extended that energy to the whole day.
Although Saturday's Big Night selection, "The Imitation Game," arrived without stars, the drama more than earned its slot. Benedict Cumberbatch delivers an anguished and deeply intelligent turn as World War II mathematician Alan Turing. The well-attended event was followed by the annual Starz Entertainment Big Night Party. This year's took advantage of Union Station's Great Hall.
Still, the afternoon belonged to the young, from Missy Franklin — all of 19 — to the many swimmers wanting to follow in her wake.
So when will Hunter Foehner and his film critic squad be in the water again? "Probably Monday," said 14-year-old Avery Campbell.
Note: The Starz Denver Film Festival continues through Nov. 23 with more films, panels and receptions, including the Nov. 22, 2 p.m. red-carpet matinee honoring another Colorado-rooted documentary, Alan Hicks' "Keep On Keepin' On."
Produced by Boulder denizen Paula DuPre Pesman, the movie follows the relationship of legendary jazz trumpeter and mentor Clark Terry and pianist Justin Kauflin. Kauflin, who is blind, will perform after the screening.


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The 2017 ASUN Conference Coach of the Year, Will Brewer returned to the Lipscomb campus in 2012 to take over the men's golf program and was laser promoted to Director of Golf in 2015 to assume a leadership role in both the men's and women's programs.
Under his guidance, the Lipscomb men's program has climbed to unprecedented heights including the school's first NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship appearance in Sugar Grove, Illinois. The Bisons have quickly risen under Brewer from a 239 ranking nationally when he inherited the program to back-to-back at-large berths in the NCAA tournament.
"When considering all of the traits that we were looking for in a coach - proven competitor, established success as a coach, involved in and known throughout the golfing community and a man of character who reflects the values of a place like Lipscomb - I would have felt blessed to have found someone who met two or three of these qualifications," Lipscomb Director of Athletics Philip Hutcheson said. "However, in Will, we have all four as he is a coach whose resume seems custom-built for a place like Lipscomb.
"His record as a competitor both during and since college, his accomplishments as a coach and teacher, his experience on the business side of the game and his reputation among all of those with whom he's worked all made him an easy choice to lead our program and to help grow Lipscomb golf throughout the middle Tennessee region and beyond."
From day one when Brewer was hired, he laid out the steps Lipscomb needed to take in order to build a prominent golf program.
"The No. 1 thing is we need to rebrand the golf program and No. 2, we need to recruit," Brewer said when he was hired. "If we do those things well we will have the momentum to allow us to have some conversations in the golf community and the Nashville community overall. Our desire is to have a recognizable brand."
In his stint at the helm, Brewer has stayed true to his beliefs and has the Lipscomb brand rising. His squad has posted eight wins and 37 top-five finishes in the short time under his direction. His squad was ranked No. 20 nationally by Golfweek in May of 2017 for their performance in the spring.
Brewer, a 1977 graduate of Lipscomb, was the NAIA National Champion in 1976, a three-time NAIA All-American and is a member of the NAIA Hall of Fame. He is also the first athlete inducted into the Lipscomb Hall of Fame and was the 1998 Tennessee PGA Player of the Year.
He has served as an instructor, teaching pro, director of golf and GM at various places including Belle Meade Country Club, The Golf Club of Tennessee and Vanderbilt Legends Club. He was named as Golf Magazine's Instructor of the Year for the state of Tennessee and also has been presented the Lou Frank Award for cooperative service and support of the Tennessee Golf Foundation.
His two sons, Clark and Campbell, both played collegiately at Ole Miss and Middle Tennessee, respectively. Brewer has also coached six state high school champions and several college champions. He has also coached tour players as well.
Brewer's passion for the game also helped make his selection to lead Lipscomb's program an easy one for Hutcheson.


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Nashville's airport will be a landing spot for baseball executives from the majors and minors this weekend. It is the time of the year for Baseball's annual Winter Meetings, version number 106. The Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center will be packed with baseball people and media.
Over 400 members of the media, the largest number ever, will fill the media center five days starting on Sunday.
Trade rumors and free agent signings will dominate the sports news for days, a phenomenon other pro sports can't come close to matching.
Starting on Monday, major league managers will be brought to the media center. One from a team in each league will be interviewed for 30 minutes. Then, two more will follow. Charlie Manuel and Terry Francona are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday. These sessions are designed to provide copy for newspapers, sound bits for radio and video for TV.
The Baseball Hall of Fame Veterans Committee has announcements on Monday and Tuesday, which is great. It will help take the spotlight away from agents peddling their clients. The winter draft, Rule 5 to be specific, will take place at 9 o'clock Thursday morning.
Pat Gillick, Ruben Amaro Jr. and Mike Arbuckle will head the Phillies delegation. Priorities remain pitching, a starter and a reliever. Another outfielder is on the radar, but pitching commands the most attention.
A lot of talk has already taken place. Next week is the time the talks intensify. But, keep in mind, improving the team isn't something that has to be done next week. That is an on-going process that continues through spring training.
Also, keep in mind the Phillies were very proactive earlier in acquiring Brad Lidge and re-signing R. C. Romero. A veteran scout told me, the Lidge deal was "a steal. Bruntlett can play, too."
Beat reporter Ken Mandel will provide daily overage on this site. I'll mix in some behind the scenes goodies and Scott Palmer will be filing video reports for four days starting Monday. So, visit this site often.
A reader felt the new alternate, cream-color uniforms the Phillies will wear for home day games, were ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. The person felt they looked like pajamas.
Receiving reactions is great. I have no problem with that. I may not always agree but feedback is welcomed.
Perhaps our promotion team can whip up a sleep over at Citizens Bank Park. Everyone, including the players, could wear their PJs.
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The alternate uni's look great, Larry! They have just enough of the feel of the "old style" mixed with just enough modern trimmings.
I'll be looking forward to a new hat for Christmas from the kids!
As for the sleepover – just say the word and I'll bring my Mickey Mouse PJ's! LOL!
Have the Phil's increased their payroll by selling new jerseys? The Phil's are following the hideous yellow and blue Eagle jersey sales to increase revenue. Anticpated playoff ticket sales should also bolster the budget. Making season ticket holders pay for the entire playoffs must have injected potential profits into Montgomery's veins. The Phil's don't have the blue chip prospects to trade so I expect to see another Freddy Garcia risk/reward type acquistion. Are there any starters w/ one year contracts that are potential trade bait for mid-level pitching prosepcts like Outman? There's a bear market for pitching so I still expect Rowand's return. In Gillick's tenure in Philly his team has been set by mid Dec. Do you anticipate the same this year? 39 of 40 roster spots are already filled.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
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We have just purchased an old sydney hotel/pub (licensed since 1885) we want to modernise and bring in new clientele . Formerly working class area that is becoming fashionable, close to CBD. The hotel is a small one bar lounge/public bar operation with bistro and gaming (poker machines), Outside street dining. Our desire is to continue the homely (local) feel of the pub but make it fashionable/quirky but not flashy modern.
Existing market is a mixture of old regulars 50+ years and younger people living in the area 20-30. Also has a good younger office crowd during the day. We want to target the younger workers and the more affluent people moving into the area. There is also a large student population which we would like to tap but we dont want it to be uni pub
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If you're approaching a yellow light, Snapshot is an incentive to risk running the red rather than hitting the brakes. If a deer jumps out in front of you, Snapshot would prefer that you swerve into the oncoming lane rather than mash that brake pedal.That is, the past relationship between braking behavior and driving safety reflects the behavior of agents under one set of incentives - if you change their incentives, their behavior will change, and the previous relationship between braking and safe driving will no longer be valid.
What Progressive really needs is a "structural" model that embodies the underlying preferences of their customers, which will be invariant to the policy change. Of course that's a much harder thing to do (as macroecomists have discovered over the past several decades...).


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A three-hour "fact finding" hearing and 13 hours of negotiations Wednesday yielded no resolution to a prolonged contract dispute between the Ramona Unified School District and the teachers union.
The state-supervised Public Employment Relations Board hearing was held at the district headquarters, and both sides agreed that afternoon to continue negotiations through mediation. Talks concluded without a settlement about 2 a.m. Thursday.
The fact-finding panel has 20 days to issue a report and recommendations. The district then has 10 days to make the findings public at a board meeting.
"We are very disappointed that the Fact Finding Hearing held yesterday and earlier today did not move us any closer to a tentative agreement with the union negotiators representing our teachers for a new contract covering the current and next two fiscal years," Superintendent Robert Graeff wrote. "It was our hope that we could arrive at a settlement that is both fair to our teachers and financially responsible."
The Ramona Teachers Association said it, too, was disappointed. The union also indicated that it might consider a strike should the district impose a settlement the teachers consider unfair after the fact-finding report is released.
"We had hoped to reach agreement, but now we look forward to seeing if we can reach a compromise acceptable to RTA and the district once the fact finder issues a report," union President Donna Braye-Romero said. "Failing that, we'll have no choice but to consider going out on strike to prevent the district from imposing a settlement that would decimate and demoralize Ramona teachers, and more importantly, harm the students."
Braye-Romero said at least 200 people attended a rally at the district office Wednesday afternoon in support of the teachers.
A post on the district's Facebook page after midnight appeared hopeful: "As of midnight, both parties continue to stay focused on collective bargaining. Substitute teachers have been ordered for union members on the teacher (negotiating) team so that the parties can stay involved in contract talks a little longer tonight. No deal is yet at hand — but the gap may be narrowing."
However, the district sent a statement at 2:14 a.m. saying the talks were unsuccessful.
The district has sought total compensation cuts — in pay and benefits — from all employees to reduce costs and remain fiscally solvent. Costs have continued to increase while the district's revenues have dropped 20 percent over the past five years because of state funding cuts and declining enrollment. The district has a $45 million general fund budget.
With the passage of Proposition 30, the district's proposal for teachers to lower compensation was reductions of 8 percent, 9.5 percent and 9.5 percent over three years through pay cuts, furlough days, benefits contributions, or a combination. The union's last official counterproposal was a one-year, 1.62 percent salary reduction, taken as three furlough days.
The district approved three-year contract agreements with compensation cuts in July and October with management and classified employees, respectively. The classified compensation reductions, reached through a combination of furlough days and benefits contributions, are equal to pay cuts of 9 percent, 12 percent, and 12 percent over three years. Management employees' cuts equal 10.5 percent, 12 percent, and 12 percent through benefits contributions.
Labor talks between the teachers and district have been going on for about 18 months. The district declared an impasse Oct. 19 and requested a state mediator after the last proposals from each side were rejected. Mediation failed. Fact finding was the next step in the collective-bargaining.
During Wednesday's negotiations, "both parties made several efforts to come closer together to varying degrees," Graeff said.
Now, the district and union will wait for the fact-finding panel's report.
In the meantime, Graeff said, the district's bargaining team is available to meet with teachers association negotiators.
After the panel's report is released, the district is required to meet with a mediator again. If that round of mediation fails, the district can unilaterally put a resolution in place.


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"And from the Nile rose up seven cows beautiful of appearance and healthy of flesh." – Bereishis 41:2
Pharaoh had a dream. First, seven "good" cows came out of the Nile. Then seven "bad" cows came up and consumed the first cows. When he awoke in the morning, he called for Yosef to interpret the dream. Yosef explained the seven "good cows" represented seven years of plenty that would be followed by seven years of famine.
Interestingly, the expression the Torah uses to describe the first set of cows is "beautiful of appearance, and healthy of flesh." Rashi explains that "beauty of appearance" means that since everyone would enjoy abundance during the seven years of plenty, no one would cast a jealous eye and the possessions of neighbors would look attractive. During the seven years of famine, in contrast, since they would be lacking, their neighbors' belongings would look ugly.
This Rashi is difficult to understand. He seems to be saying that because a person doesn't have, he will become jealous and therefore his neighbor's possessions will look distasteful to him. It would seem to be just the opposite. If I don't have something and you do, my not having it will make me want it more, so that item, now being an object of my desire, should look more attractive, not less.
The answer to this question can best be understood through an observation about human nature.
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The world uses the expression "The optimist sees the glass as half full, while the pessimist sees it as half empty." While there is truth in this statement, it actually goes further. Our attitudes color what we see, and our moods shape our thoughts. Those thoughts become the prism through which we perceive reality. And so when looking at an eight-ounce glass with four ounces in it, the optimist sees a glass that is full; the pessimist sees a glass that is empty.
Two people can look at an identical situation yet see vastly different worlds. One sees potential while the other sees pitfalls; one sees obstacles to overcome and the other sees barriers blocking the path. Because we experience the world through the filter of our attitudes, to an optimist the world is filled with beautiful things and generous people. To a pessimist the world is filled with ugly things and petty people.
This seems to be the answer to Rashi. When a person has his needs met, he is satisfied, and a satisfied man can be generous of sprit. To a man generous of spirit, the world is a place of beauty. That which my friend has is lovely. His farm is impressive. His flocks are splendid. His crops are outstanding.
However, a person who isn't satisfied hungers and craves, and his needs can cause him to be bitter and stingy of spirit. To him the world is a place of bitterness and resentment. I begrudge my friend for what he has. I cannot forgive his success. His farm is poor. His flocks are pitiful. His crops are pathetic. The world itself is an ugly place.
This concept is very applicable to us. Many people we meet aren't happy. The strange part of it is they have so much, yet something is holding back.
Like a mantra, people utter the words, "I will be happy when…" Each person has his own fill-in for the blank, but whatever it is, his happiness depends on it. It might be the newest car, the fanciest house, the corner office, or the wardrobe worth dying for. It could be the right spouse, acceptance into medical school, that great job, or people who understand me… Each person has his own value system and his own criteria, but he clearly knows, "Once I get it, I will finally be happy."
Yet an amazing thing happens. He does finally get it – and lo and behold, he still isn't happy. What happened? It was all he needed. It was all he wanted. He finally has it. Why isn't he satisfied? What is the problem?
The problem is that it wasn't what he needed to be happy. The sad part is that he spent years pursuing something with a hunger that didn't allow him to enjoy life.


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Many factors are known or suspected to accelerate the rate of bone loss. These include smoking, alcohol, low calcium intake, lack of exercise, various medications, and several medical illnesses. Excessive consumption of vitamin A may also increase risk of osteoporosis, 1,109 and rapid weight loss may increase the risk in postmenopausal women. 2 Raw food vegetarians are also likely to have significant bone thinning. 129
In general, women are far more prone to osteoporosis than men. For this reason, the following discussion focuses almost entirely on women.
Hormone replacement therapy prevents or reverses osteoporosis in women. However, now that long-term use of hormone replacement therapy has been found to be unsafe, conventional medical treatment for osteoporosis in women centers mainly on drugs in the bisphosphonate family, such as Fosamax (taken along with calcium and vitamin D— see below ).
Exercise , especially weight-bearing exercise, almost certainly helps strengthen bone (although the evidence for this apparently obvious statement is weaker than one might expect). 167-170 Minimal evidence suggests that the Chinese form of exercise called Tai Chi may also provide some benefit. 177,180 However, in a randomized trial of 86 postmenopausal women with osteopenia (low bone density), tai chi plus usual care did not appear to improve bone mineral density of proximal femur or lumbar spine compared to usual care alone. 195
Principal Proposed Natural Treatments
There is good evidence that people with osteoporosis, or who are at risk for it, should take calcium and vitamin D supplements regardless of what other treatments they may be using.
Substances called isoflavones found in soy and other plants may be helpful for osteoporosis (as well as general menopausal symptoms ). Vitamin K and a new supplement called strontium ranelate have also shown promise. A semisynthetic isoflavone called ipriflavone has shown considerable promise for osteoporosis, but safety concerns have decreased its popularity.
Calcium and Vitamin D
Calcium is necessary to build and maintain bone. You need vitamin D, too, as the body cannot absorb calcium without it. Many people do not get enough calcium in their daily diet. Although your body can manufacture vitamin D when exposed to the sun, supplemental vitamin D may be necessary in this age of sunblock.
According to most, but not all studies, calcium supplements (especially as calcium citrate, and taken with vitamin D) appear to be modestly helpful in slowing down bone loss in postmenopausal women. 3-7,121,130-131,140,165,171 Contrary to some reports, milk does appear to be a useful source of calcium for this purpose. 175-176 Any improvements in bone density rapidly disappear once the supplements are stopped. 10 People who religiously continue calcium use may do better than those who forget from time to time. 140 Vitamin D without calcium, however, does not appear to offer more than minimal bone-protective benefits for seniors. 110,181,182
The effect of calcium and vitamin D supplementation in any form is relatively minor and may not be strong enough to reduce the rate of osteoporotic fractures. A large randomized trial of over 3,000 postmenopausal women aged 65-71 years found that three years of daily supplementation with calcium and vitamin D was not associated with a significant reduction in the incidence of fractures. 193
In a much larger observational study (not a randomized trial) involving 61,433 women aged 39-73, researchers investigated the effects of dietary calcium (as opposed to supplements) on the risk of osteoporosis and fracture over a 19-year period. 194 They found that women who consumed less than 750 mg/day of calcium had a higher rate of osteoporotic fractures in any location. Unexpectedly, however, the study also found that those who consumed the highest amounts of calcium (over 1,137 mg/day) did not have a comparatively reduced rate of fractures or osteoporosis. Indeed, this high dietary intake was associated with an increase in the number of hip fractures for reasons the authors could not completely explain.
Use of calcium supplements early in life might put calcium "in the bank" and prevent problems later, especially when children also engage in physical exercise; however, study results are somewhat contradictory. 132-136,142-145
One study found benefits for male seniors using a calcium and vitamin D-fortified milk product. 141 However, there are some concerns that excessive calcium intake could raise the risk of prostate cancer in men. See the Calcium article for more information.
Vitamin D and calcium taken together may also have a modestly protective effect against the severe bone loss caused by corticosteroid drugs such as prednisone. 8,9
Certain other supplements may enhance the effects of calcium and vitamin D. One study found that adding various trace minerals ( zinc at 15 mg, copper at 2.5 mg, and manganese at 5 mg) produced further improvement. 11,12 However, copper by itself may not be helpful. 99
There is some evidence that essential fatty acids may also enhance the effectiveness of calcium. In one study, 65 postmenopausal women were given calcium along with either placebo or a combination of omega-6 fatty acids (from evening primrose oil ) and omega-3 fatty acids (from fish oil ) for a period of 18 months. At the end of the study period, the group receiving essential fatty acids had higher bone density and fewer fractures than the placebo group. 13 In contrast to this, however, a similar 12-month, double-blind trial of 42 postmenopausal women found no benefit from essential fatty acids. 14 The explanation for the discrepancy may lie in the differences between the women studied. The first study involved women living in nursing homes, while the second studied healthier women living on their own. The second group of women may have been better nourished and already receiving sufficient essential fatty acids in their diet.
Finally, vitamin K may also enhance the effect of calcium ( see below ).
Interestingly, vitamin D may offer another benefit for osteoporosis in seniors: most, though not all, studies have found that vitamin D supplementation improves balance in seniors (especially female seniors) and reduces risk of falling. 103,104,112,113,120,122.123,146-149,163 However, this was not the case in a randomized trial of 409 women who lived at home with a history of one or more falls in the past year. Vitamin D without exercise was not associated with a reduced risk of falls when compared to placebo combined with exercise. In this case, strength and balance exercises was only intervention that improved physical functioning. 197
There is weak, preliminary evidence that calcium supplementation in healthy, postmenopausal women may slightly increase the risk of cardiovascular events, such as myocardial infarction. 190
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full articles on Calcium and Vitamin D .
Genistein and Other Isoflavones
Soy contains substances called isoflavones that produce effects in the body somewhat similar to the effects of estrogen. (For this reason, they are called "phytoestrogens.") Although study results are not entirely consistent, growing evidence suggests that genistein and other isoflavones can (like estrogen) help prevent bone loss. 37-48,105,106,114,124-126,150-151,185
For example, in a 1-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 90 women aged 47 to 57 were given genistein at a dose of 54 mg/day, standard hormone replacement therapy (HRT), or placebo. 106 The results showed that genistein prevented bone loss in the back and hip to approximately the same extent as HRT. No adverse effects on the uterus or breast were seen. A subsequent 2-year, double-blind study of 389 postmenopausal women with mild bone loss found that 54 mg of genistein plus calcium and vitamin D improved bone density to a greater extent than calcium and vitamin D alone. 185 However, a fairly high percentage of participants given genistein experienced substantial digestive distress.
In a 1-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 203 postmenopausal Chinese women, use of soy isoflavones at a dose of 80 mg daily had mildly positive protective effects on bone mass in the hip. 125 This supplement contained 46.4% daidzein, 38.8% glycetein, and 14.7% genistein.
Another study evaluated an isoflavone supplement made from red clover (containing 6 mg biochanin A, 16 mg formononetin, 1 mg genistein, and 0.5 mg daidzein daily). 126 In this 1-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 205 people, use of red clover isoflavones significantly reduced loss of bone in the lumbar spine. Benefits were also seen in a 1-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled study using an extract made from the soy product tofu. 127
However, it is not clear that the consumption of foods rich in isoflavones offers the same benefits. For example, in placebo-controlled study involving 237 healthy women in the early stages of menopause, the consumption of isoflavone-enriched foods (providing an average of 110 mg isoflavone daily) for one year had no affect on bone density or metabolism. 192
Interestingly, the effect of isoflavones on bone may be more complex than that of estrogen. Bone is always undergoing two opposite processes at once: bone breakdown and bone formation. Estrogen acts on the first of these processes: it inhibits bone breakdown. Isoflavones may affect both sides of the equation at once: inhibiting bone breakdown while at the same time enhancing new bone formation. 49,50,106,126,178
In about one out of three people, intestinal bacteria convert some soy isoflavones into a substance called "equol." Isoflavones may have a greater bone-protecting effect in such "equol producers." 152,183
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Soy article.
Growing evidence indicates that the mineral strontium (as strontium ranelate) is effective as an aid in the treatment of osteoporosis. 115-117,137,138
The best and largest study on strontium was a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 1,649 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. 128 In this 3-year study, a dose of strontium ranelate at 2 g daily significantly increased bone density in the spine and hip, and significantly decreased the rate of vertebral fractures.
While some treatments for osteoporosis act to increase bone formation, and others decrease bone breakdown, some evidence suggests that strontium ranelate has a dual effect, providing both these benefits at once. 153
There is one major caveat, however. At present, all major controlled clinical trials of strontium ranelate have involved some of the same researchers. Entirely independent confirmation is needed. It is not clear to what extent the "ranelate" portion of strontium ranelate is necessary for this benefit, or whether other strontium salts would work as well.
Note : The strontium used in these studies is not the same as the radioactive strontium that was such a concern during the decades of above-ground atomic testing.
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Strontium article.
Vitamin K
Increasing, but inconsistent, evidence indicates that vitamin K may help prevent osteoporosis. 51-60,111,154, 173-174 It may work by reducing bone breakdown, rather than by enhancing bone formation. 155
Perhaps the best evidence for a beneficial effect comes from a 3-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 181 women. 111 Participants, postmenopausal women between the ages of 50 and 60, were divided into three groups: placebo, calcium plus vitamin D plus magnesium, or calcium plus vitamin D plus magnesium plus vitamin K (at a dose of 1 g daily). Researchers monitored bone loss by using a standard DEXA bone density scan. The results showed that the study participants using vitamin K along with the other nutrients lost less bone than those in the other two groups.
However, another placebo-controlled trial involving 452 older men and woman with normal levels of calcium and vitamin D failed to demonstrate any beneficial effects of 500 mcg per day of vitamin K supplementation on bone health over a 3-year period. 191
For more information, see the full Vitamin K article.
Ipriflavone is a semisynthetic variation of soy isoflavones. Ipriflavone appears to help prevent osteoporosis by interfering with bone breakdown. Estrogen works in much the same way, but ipriflavone does not appear to produce estrogenic effects anywhere else in the body other than in bone. For this reason, it probably does not increase the risk of breast or uterine cancer. However, it also does not reduce the hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes, or vaginal dryness of menopause. In addition, it may cause health risks of its own.
Numerous double-blind, placebo-controlled studies involving a total of more than 1,700 participants have examined the effects of ipriflavone on various forms of osteoporosis. 15-26 Overall, it appears that ipriflavone can stop the progression of osteoporosis and perhaps reverse it to some extent.
For example, a 2-year, double-blind study followed 198 postmenopausal women who had evidence of bone loss. 27 At the end of the study, there was a gain in bone density of 1% in the ipriflavone group compared to a loss of 0.7% in the placebo group.
Conversely, the largest and longest study of ipriflavone found no benefit. 28 In this 3-year trial of 474 postmenopausal women, no differences in extent of osteoporosis were seen between ipriflavone and placebo groups. However, for reasons that are not clear, the researchers in this study gave women only 500 mg of calcium daily. All other major studies of ipriflavone gave participants 1,000 mg of calcium daily. It is possible that ipriflavone requires the higher dose of calcium to work properly.
Ipriflavone may also be helpful for preventing osteoporosis in women who are taking Lupron or corticosteroids, medications that accelerate bone loss. 29-31 (However, the combined use of ipriflavone and drugs that suppress the immune system, such as corticosteroids, presents risks.)
There is some evidence that combining ipriflavone with estrogen may improve anti-osteoporosis benefits. 32,33 However, we do not know whether such combinations increase or decrease the other benefits and adverse effects of estrogen-replacement therapy.
Finally, for reasons that are not at all clear, ipriflavone appears to be able to reduce pain in osteoporosis-related fractures that have already occurred. 34-36
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full Ipriflavone article.
Other Proposed Natural Treatments
It is often said that magnesium supplements are helpful for strong bones, but there is only minimal evidence to support this claim. 166
It has been suggested (though with little meaningful supporting evidence), that the typical American diet causes the body to become acidic, and that this in turn leads to bone loss. One study tested potassium citrate as a treatment for bone loss, in the belief that this supplement would counteract this hypothesized diet-related acidity. 183 The results in this 1-year study of 161 postmenopausal women indicated that potassium citrate reduced bone loss to a greater extent than the placebo used (potassium chloride). This study suffered from numerous problems in design, analysis, and reporting, and does not necessarily show anything about dietary "acidity." It may, however, indicate that the citrate part of potassium citrate has some bone-protective effects. If this is in fact true, it could in turn explain why calcium citrate has, in some studies, proven more effective for treating or preventing osteoporosis than other forms of calcium.
Observational studies hint that higher levels of high homocysteine might increase risk of osteoporosis. 157-159 Vitamins B 12 , B 6 , and folate are known to reduce homocysteine levels. On this basis, supplementation with these vitamins has been proposed for preventing or mitigating the effects of osteoporosis. One double-blind study found weak evidence that supplemental folate and vitamin B 12 (known to reduce homocysteine) might reduce risk of osteoporotic fractures in people who had suffered a stroke. 160 However, two other studies failed to find that use of mixed B-vitamins had any positive effect on bone density or chemical markers of bone turnover. 172,188
Some evidence suggests that the hormone DHEA may be helpful for preventing or treating osteoporosis, especially in postmenopausal women over 70. 61-64,101,161,189 One study found weak evidence that DHEA might be helpful for preventing the osteoporosis that sometimes develops in women with anorexia nervosa . 107
Chinese studies suggest that the herb Epimedium brevicornum has phytoestrogenic effects and, on this basis, may be helpful for preventing bone loss. 179 ( Epimedium brevicornum is related, but not identical, to Epimedium sagittatum , otherwise known as horny goat weed .)
Very preliminary evidence suggests that black tea may help protect against osteoporosis. 65
Similarly weak evidence hints that the herb black cohosh might help prevent osteoporosis. 102
Although it has long been stated that high phosphorus intake due to consumption of soft drinks might lead to osteoporosis, there is no solid evidence for this claim; in fact, elevated intake of phosphorus may help prevent osteoporosis. 164 The reason is that bone contains both calcium and phosphate.
According to one very preliminary study, but not another, boron may be helpful for preventing osteoporosis. 66,108 However, there are some concerns that boron supplements may raise levels of the body's own estrogen, especially in women on estrogen-replacement therapy, and therefore might present an increased risk of cancer. 67,68 If you want to increase your boron intake, the best way might be to eat more fruits and vegetables.
One study widely advertised as showing that silicon is helpful for osteoporosis actually failed to show much of anything. 162
Extremely weak evidence hints at possible benefit for osteoporosis through use of royal jelly . 186
Although it has long been believed that consuming too much protein (especially animal-based protein) increases the risk of osteoporosis, the balance of available evidence suggests the reverse: if anything, high intake of protein appears to help strengthen bone. 69,70,118,119 One study found that calcium supplements may do a better job of strengthening bones in people with relatively high protein intake than those with lower intake. 100
It has been suggested both that water fluoridation helps prevent osteoporosis and that it also causes the condition; on balance, however, the evidence suggests that it does neither. 187
One study failed to find arginine supplements helpful for enhancing bone density. 139
The Progesterone Story
Many books promote the idea that natural progesterone prevents or even reduces osteoporosis. In this case, the term natural indicates that we are using the same progesterone found in the body. It is still made synthetically, but it is called "natural progesterone" to distinguish it from its chemical cousins known as progestins. Generally, prescription "progesterone" is actually a progestin.
The progesterone/osteoporosis story began with test tube and other preliminary studies suggesting that progesterone or progestins can stimulate the activity of cells that build bone. 71,72 Subsequently, a poorly designed and uncontrolled study (really a series of case histories from one physician's practice) purportedly demonstrated that progesterone cream can slow or even reverse osteoporosis. 73-75
However, a 1-year, double-blind trial of 102 women given either progesterone cream (providing 20 mg progesterone daily) or placebo cream, along with calcium and multivitamins, found no evidence of any improvements in bone density attributable to progesterone. 76
Furthermore, in a 3-year study of 875 women, combination treatment with estrogen and oral progesterone was no more effective for osteoporosis than estrogen alone. 77
The Estriol Story
For over a decade, some alternative medicine practitioners have popularized the use of a special form of estrogen called estriol , claiming that, unlike standard estrogen, it does not increase the risk of cancer. However, this claim is unfounded.
Controlled trials performed in Japan have found that estriol helps prevent bone loss in menopausal women, 78-82 although one small study found no benefit. 83
However, like other forms of estrogen, oral estriol stimulates the growth of uterine tissue. This leads to a risk of uterine cancer.
In a placebo-controlled study of 1,110 women, uterine tissue stimulation was seen among women given estriol orally (1 mg to 2 mg daily) as compared to those given placebo. 84 Another large study found that oral estriol increased the risk of uterine cancer. 85 In another study of 48 women given estriol at a dose of 1 mg twice daily, uterine tissue stimulation was seen in the majority of cases. 86
In contrast, a 12-month, double-blind trial of oral estriol (2 mg daily) in 68 Japanese women found no effect on the uterus. 87 It may be that the high levels of soy in the Japanese diet altered the results. Additionally, test tube studies suggest that estriol is just as likely to cause breast cancer as any other form of estrogen. 98
The bottom line: If you use estriol, you should consider it like any other form of estrogen.
Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine
Traditional Chinese herbal medicine (TCHM) has a long historical tradition, although it is not quite as ancient as popularly believed. In China today, TCHM is used alongside conventional pharmaceutical treatment. Considerable attempts have been made to subject TCHM to scientific evaluation however, most of the published Chinese studies on the subject fall far short of current scientific standard, making it impossible to determine true benefits. The exact amounts and types of herbs used in each mix can also vary from person to person, making its effects less reliable.
In a review of 108 randomized trials with 10,655 people with osteoporosis, TCHM showed some promise at increasing bone mass density (BMD). Ninety nine mixtures of TCHMs were compared to traditional Western medications, placebo, or no intervention. TCHM was associated with increased BMD in 3 trials when TCHM was compared to placebo, in 2 of 5 trials when compared to no intervention, and in 23 of 61 trials when compared to Western medications. TCHM also increased BMD in 26 of 48 trials when TCHM was added to Western medications compared to Western medication alone. All the trials in this review had several biases and design flaws, which affect the reliability of the results and make it difficult to draw specific conclusions. 196 .
Herbs and Supplements to Use Only With Caution
While the evidence is not yet strong, some research suggests that excessive intake of vitamin A may increase the risk of osteoporosis. 1,109
Various herbs and supplements may interact adversely with drugs used to treat osteoporosis. For more information on this potential risk, see the individual drug article in the Drug Interactions section of this database.
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