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Originally Posted by reneeh63
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"Better safe than sorry" is NOT always the best policy.
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Eloquently said. (You're also right about speaking the vernacular. I try to, but the post was getting too long.)
RE: scanning for osteoporosis-- one of the few conditions for which preventive measures are worth it. If more people got more Calcium and spent more time in the sun & exercised more throughout their younger years, we wouldn't have all the osteoporosis we see now.
It could be argued that we really don't need routine bone density scans: everybody should be taking Calcium/Vit D supplements because most people don't get nearly enough dairy product in their diets, the only "good" source of Ca) and that the pills for treatment of osteo- (biphosphonates) don't work nearly as well as people are led to believe. They also lose their value after 1-2 yrs of treatment.
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