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July 24, 2004 |
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Bone Health Preventing and Treating Osteoporosis Here’s a frightening thought. A woman is more likely to die from a hip fracture than from breast cancer. And while there are a few things we can do to reduce our risk of breast cancer, there are numerous things we can do to significantly reduce our risk of osteoporosis and its predecessor disease, osteopenia. In fact, women have a natural ability to rebuild bone throughout life. Even as bone is constantly being broken down, it’s also being rebuilt. Our larger long bones, including major arm and leg bones, are completely replaced every 10 to 12 years; smaller bones may turn over as often as every two years. But this rebuilding gets more difficult as we age (as do most things). Our bodies become overly acidic, causing the alkaline minerals in our bones, including calcium, magnesium, and potassium, to leach from our bones to buffer the high acidity. Good bone health depends upon you making just small changes to your lifestyle, eating the right foods and supplementing with the correct nutrients in the right amounts.
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