Taking these steps will help prevent osteoporosis but will also help the body get the minerals it needs to calm the appetite.

1) Generally, we should be eating natural foods, as close as nature intended. We should be eating foods that provide us with the maximum of nutrients, foods that are easy to digest and work in harmony with our bodies. You need top-grade ‘fuel’ to function well. Just as a high performance car would not perform well on low-grade fuel. We can make our body’s job very difficult or very easy. Good nutrition is essential at any age but even more so as we get older.

2) A healthy program needs to be followed for the rest of your life. I have eaten this way for well over 2 decades now, so I know what it is like to change habits of a lifetime.

3) Exercise is very important, helps the bones, circulation, heart, moods – includes walking, dancing, jogging, what ever makes you happy and you know you will continue to do.

1) The bigger the plate, the bigger the glass, the bigger the bowl – the more you consume. During experiments people were given different sizes of plates and bowls and told to help themselves – in most cases the people given the smaller plates and bowels ate less.

2) Do not be tempted to buy big size, family size, super size, or economy size. The bigger the packet the more you eat, happens all the time. Small individually wrapped sizes might seem a little more expensive but as you eat less they work out the same, if not cheaper.

3) Color wise, nothing stimulates the appetite quite like red – avoid restaurants with red table cloths, decor etc. The color that calms the appetite most is blue. So add blue table cloths, napkins, blue plates (smaller ones), if you can paint the dining room walls blue etc.

Most people consume far too much salt without actually realizing how much. There is so much hidden salt in the average diet, most processed foods have quite a lot – bread, cheese, bacon, crackers, chips, etc etc. For some people food is bland or tasteless without salt.

Too much salt can cause all sorts of health problems not least fluid retention and shortages of other minerals, as too much sodium causes imbalances.

You can make a herbal-salt this will reduce your salt needs, helping to re-educate your taste buds.

The food industry is looking out for its own interests not yours. These are huge profits to be made by leading you up the proverbial garden path.

The industry and the media had so many people flocking to buy their no-fat, low-fat, lite-fat, reduced-fat products, however the large majority of these products where very high in refined carbs and sugar. The media had painted fat as the big enemy.  In reality the truth is as described in a book called Some Fats Heal and Some Fat Kill by Udo Erasmus. Some particular fats are vital to our good health and weight-loss, called essential fatty acids. Whereas processed fats are totally destructive. So people have become ‘essential fatty acid’ deficient.

It is also known as pomelo. This really is a star diet food and many diets have evolved around eating grapefruits. I don’t propose you do that for one minute, however I do suggest you add a few more to your diet.

Grapefruits contains hydroxycitric acid, an interesting compound. This compound is thought to inhibit the enzyme ATP-citrase from turning any excess glucose molecules into cholesterol and fat. It would appear to disrupt this process of about 40 percent for up to 12 hours. This compound also seems to calm and possible turn down appetite.