No bones about it: Eating dried plums helps prevent fractures and osteoporosis

Florida State University ^ | August 17, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

Why did it have to be prunes ping.

[iowamark]

Note the marketing effort to rebrand prunes as “dried plums.”

[Sudetenland]

ONe thing for certain, they’ll make you a “regular” guy.

[sorrisi]

I’m with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never really liked them. I will have to choke them down I guess.

[tnlibertarian]

It helps prevent fractures because the fall from the pot to the floor isn’t as likely to break your hip as the fall down the steps. And you ain’t going far from the pot.

[Drawsing]

This is great. I have always loved prunes. Now they sell them in different “flavors” such as lemon.

[vetvetdoug]

Eating prunes decreases the osteoporosis but increases the flatulence exponentially. Well, now we will have people standing upright but sounding like Barney Frank on C-Span.

[Chuzzlewit]

man, you got that right.. prunes have been a god send for me.. doc put me on them, and they are working in a regular kind of way.

[DManA]

Are three enough? Are six too many?

AND THEY’RE CALLED PRUNES. HEAR THAT? PRUNES!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And it would also help with another problem that seems to plague the elderly if you can believe the ads in doctors offices.

[birddog]

I love them and eat them as a snack at work. Easy way to get my fruit servings in every day......

[nina0113]

Note the marketing effort to rebrand prunes as “dried plums.”

Yeah, the first time I saw that, I thought they were some different (new! improved! special! and better!!!) kind of plums, yellow or red maybe, then I realized it was just plain old prunes, trying to become cool.

[quintr]

Put them in a bowl and pour hot water over them and add a dash of almond extract. Delicious!

My grandmother had a boarding house in the 50s and the prunes didn’t last long at all on the table.

— Jane Reinheimer

[arkady_renko]

No sh#t?!

[Mikey_1962]

Coincidental or causal?

It could be that people who eat prunes take better care of themselves later in life.

[JayAr36]

If prunes are dried plums then where do they get prune juice?

[Texas resident]

They also prevent fractures because while you are eating prunes, you are sitting down at the table. While you are seated you don’t break any bones. Simple huh?

sorry, just a little obama logic there.

[Ratman83]

Wouldn’t that be Much sh#t?!

[CSM]

You could also soak them in vodka like Mrs. Heinz Kerry.