This is the story of my mother, who suffered from Osteoporosis. As Ursula Andress just came into press with the same grave illness, I hope this will spread awareness for it. I hope to clean up some myths about it as well, as they are scrupulously used by the industry to make fraudulent claims.

My mother was diagnosed with severe Osteoporosis at the age of 78. After a breast cancer operation at 76 this came as a further setback to her. My father having died in the year between didn’t help much either.

My brother found my mother at her home lying on the floor and unable to get up. He immediately took her to hospital where they diagnosed Osteoporosis. Then we took mother home and went into a 24 hour rota between my brothers, my sister in law, and me. Like this we were sure that should anything befall, somebody was there.

After her fall, my mother couldn’t navigate stairs anymore. We had to reorganise her life on one floor. She couldn’t open any drawers anymore, either, so I devised a system of needed stuff in open drawers and closed drawers for the rest. I had to construe book holders for my mother, because she was unable to hold books over any length of time. I have to add maybe, that my mother was word perfect in nine languages, and reading was her one great passion.

But that was just the beginning. Over the next two months my mother couldn’t carry anything anymore over any distance. I had to place books for her on her holders, so she could go from holder to holder if she wanted a change of books. She couldn’t manage the books into the holders anymore.

One morning I found my mother crying in her bed. She had almost broken her finger trying to push the button of her radio. I had to devise an easy click button for her to turn on and off her radio. Then she couldn’t turn the pages in her books anymore, because she couldn’t move the page holders.

At this point I began to understand my aunt who had thrown herself out of a window on the seventh floor because of her Osteoporosis. She had been 82 at the time; it had happened three years before my mother fell ill.

At this point of her becoming virtually helpless, my mother was diagnosed with liver cancer. We had a long talk, several hours, after which my mother decided not to have the cancer treated at all. Liver cancer guarantees a fast spreading of the illness, as the liver virtually distributes it everywhere on express lanes. My mother had decided that she preferred that to treatment after which she would still be a helpless invalid because of Osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is an illness that is primarily found with women. Hormone treatments are a sure guarantee for Osteoporosis in a later stage of life. Doctors tend to forget their patients what price there is to pay for hormone treatment. As mainly women get hormone treatments, it’s mainly a women’s illness.

You can push up the chance to become afflicted by Osteoporosis by at least 50 per cent if you are a milk drinker. Studies in several US universities have proven that in long term research. Drinking milk to prevent this illness is not only a myth; it’s a deliberate lie by the milk industry to push their sales.

Osteoporosis is an illness of the bones which become brittle in the process. They also become thinner. They become thinner because the soft binding tissue in the bones is gradually being reduced by the illness. There is still the same amount of calcium there which now makes the bones brittle. It is therefore plainly stupid to drink milk for its high content in calcium against Osteoporosis. For the milk industry to claim so is highly fraudulent and should be severely suppressed by government. The milk industry causes more costs to health insurers than the tobacco industry.

To aggravate the fraud of the milk industry, milk calcium molecules are linked to the milk protein molecules in the milk. That makes the calcium in the milk virtually worthless as the human body can’t digest and use it. But on the other hand, the protein is highly fattening. Actually this should not surprise you; milk is for calves to fatten them up.

My mother had had a hormone therapy, and she was a milk drinker. It caught up with her at the end. When she had her therapy in the sixties, nobody thought about the long term damage this could cause. That is a trick the pharmaceutical companies are still applying today. They bring out expensive new ‘cures’ with a high kickback twenty years later, when the cure has to be cured.