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Osteoporosis or Strong Bones, it’s up to you!

No matter what age you are you need to start to take care of your bones. The younger you start the better but that is something you can’t change. Prevention of Osteoporosis requires developing habits for good bone health in life. Most women will acquire about 98 percent of their bone density by the age of 20. If you have taken good care of your bones while young then your chances of preventing osteoporosis are quite good.

If not, there are ways to increase the density of your bones so if and most likely when you fall you wont break anything! The most likely areas to have a break are the hip and the spinal area. Now a broken hip nearly always requires a stay in hospital and the chances of corrective surgery are much higher.

It can affect your ability to walk without assistance and can cause permanent disability. Breaks in the spinal column can also be serious. These can result in a loss of height, future pain and I mean constant and deformity.

It is essential to take care of our bones and to neglect them puts us at risk of injury and other bone related diseases. Prevention in the early years of life is the best method of dealing with these conditions. However, even as we get older there is still quite a lot we can do to improve our bone health and ultimately, our quality of life.

One of the main risks to our bone health is a disease called Osteoporosis. In this article we will look at this condition, what it is, how to prevent it, and how to improve our bone health even if we are suffering from Osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is a condition were the bones become very fragile and brittle. Think of a honeycomb bar of chocolate, the less bubbles or spaces the denser or harder to break it. The more bubbles the easier it will break. Your bones are like that honeycomb, so we need to make them denser.

Osteoporosis leaves the bones vulnerable to breakage and injury. One of the most dangerous aspects of Osteoporosis is that is progresses without pain until a bone breaks.

This is especially true in women who are post menopausal. Once the ovaries stop producing estrogen, the body looses a natural substance to help prevent bone loss. It is important when this happens to compensate.

Now this may seem counter intuitive but if you do light weights over a period of time you will increase bone density. I’m not talking about bulking up or power lifting!!! I’m taking about light weights 3 times a week in your own home if you want.

Muscle is attached to bone and when a demand is made on the muscle (the light weight) it causes a reaction within the bone that causes it strengthen and increase in density.

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