Every second woman will suffer a broken bone when you move into the middle aged plus years.  Wrists and hips are up front and spinal fractures are part of the deal as well.

30% of men will break bones.

Why? Osteoporosis - the calcium thins, the bones get weak.

These are the numbers in Australia, USA, UK - you know, the "civilised" communities.

Doesn't happen in countries where they live a more normal life.

We set ourselves up for this in the younger years, sitting in front of computers, forgetting to climb stairs, totally hiding from the sun which encourages our body to make vitamin D.

And why don't you eat more calcium in nuts, fish, dark green vegetables and just a bit of dairy here and there?

The countries that consume the most dairy products still have the highest rate of broken bones from osteoporosis.

Dairy is not the most important thing - ACTIVITY IS - that stimulates bone refurbishment.

One can of Coke a day is an extra 160 calories (672 killerjoules) a day.

If you don't burn that extra energy up, it turns into fat - 7kg per year - that you need to get rid of just to stay at the same weight!

And walking burns 200 calories an hour more than sitting on your backside at a computer or in front of the TV.

So you need to walk for an extra 50 minutes to burn up the Coke calories from one can.

Water has zero calories.

Peculiar people aren't we? 

Life expectancy is increasing and Health expectancy is going backwards - which would you prefer? More life expectancy or more health expectancy or maybe both? 

You might have to put in a bit of work here to make it happen. 

This month's DVD download for our Inner Circle Members chats about which is the alternative lifestyle?

Westerners assume that the crazy, stress filled way we live is normal, with its environmental crunching cities and industries, its inactive routines over-run by computers, its obsession with processed junk food and its aggressive litigious society which screams 'me' 'me' 'me'!

We think the 'alternative' is dropping out and going back to a natural village style life where things are somewhat slower and people treat others with respect.

Hmm.....maybe that's normal and we're not?

Check out the DVD and this month's RGIs in the Rolling Newsletter.

Also, the Recipe is from Grandma......