Re: Fosamax side effects?

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> On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 10:57:58 GMT, Beach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>  And lack of weight bearing exercise seems to have screwed up the bones of
the relatively young, very healthy and well vitamined astronauts while they
were up in space.  Supposedly cured when they got back to earth and used
their bones and muscles again.
>

They have workout machines on the shuttle now (& probably in the space
station). Special arrangements to make them "weight bearing". I saw a
program about it (maybe on NASA tv?).
take a look around
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsref-toc.html
and more specifically
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/sts_egress.html#sts_exercise
and, near the end of the story
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/24/station.safety/
(same info available in other stories & sources)

They ARE trying to counteract the problem. I don't know how successful they
are; I'm sure they're paying attention to it, since it's important for any
further long-range/time space tripping.

google for nasa shuttle exercise equipment
bj