A Diet for Better Bones.

A study led by Ching-Lung Cheung of Hong Kong University linked three digestive by-products of coffee with greater bone density at the lumbar spine or upper thigh bone. Among my friends, many of whom are women of a certain age, one topic seems to dominate our conversations about health: bones. Diet research is always messy, and study results on nutrition and bone health have been wildly inconsistent. [Extracted from the article]

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