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Restoring the Temple – Bones

January 22, 2020 by Sheryle Beaudry-RN,C

Let’s start our tour of the body’s organ systems with the skeletal system. Maybe you did not think of your bones as organs, yet they are.

Restoring the Temple – Skeletal Muscles

January 22, 2020 by Sheryle Beaudry-RN,C

Skeletal muscles are voluntary muscles. This means that we consciously will them to move. We wish to walk, or kick a ball, or turn the pages of this magazine and the muscles contract, making all of this and much, much more possible.

Health – Healthy Bones

March 24, 2019 by Unknown

Vitamin D works alongside calcium to ensure the formation and maintenance of healthy bones. A deficiency of vitamin D can lead to rickets in children or osteomalacia and osteoporosis in adults.

Health – How Important is Calcium?

January 31, 2018 by Dr. John R. Christopher

No element is less understood and more ignorantly applied than calcium and its compounds. Calcium is the great builder of the structural parts of the body, not only of the bones and ligaments, but the walls of the arteries, the heart, the walls of the veins, the teeth, the epithelial, and connective tissue.