Tag Archives: bone health

Why Does My Body Need Calcium?

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Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body — more than 99 percent of all calcium in your body is stored in the bones and teeth. Where is the rest of the calcium? It can be found throughout the body in your blood, muscles, and more. What does calcium do? The number one thing calcium does is support bone and tooth structure. Your bones are constantly breaking down and being rebuilt — the pace at which this happens changes throughout life. During childhood, your body does much more building and much less breaking down. In early and middle adulthood, … Continue reading →

Preventing Osteoporosis

The best way to prevent osteoporosis is to build strong bones! It’s never too late to build strong bones; here are some things you can do to make sure your bones are strong throughout your life. Get enough calcium in your diet! Bones are made from calcium; you can’t help your body build strong bones if you don’t have the building blocks. Children under the age of 18 should get 1300 milligrams of calcium daily. People in their fifties and older should try to get 1200 milligrams of calcium daily. Between eighteen and fifty, you should try to get a … Continue reading →

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis affects millions of people around the world — both men and women. Your body is constantly breaking down old bone and replacing it with new tissue. However, as you enter your forties and fifties, your body starts to slow down. More bone is broken down than is replaced. If you could look at the inside of your bones, you would see that they aren’t exactly solid. The tissue of your bones makes a sort of honeycomb shape — there are spaces in there! People with osteoporosis have much larger gaps in their bone tissue. The outer shell of the … Continue reading →

Weight Bearing Exercises

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is suing the producers of the advertisements asking Got Milk? because they believe the campaign is exaggerating the importance of calcium in the health of bones. Well, we’ve always known that milk is an important source of calcium and that drinking milk provides the body with a source for their daily calcium. Building Healthy Bones Now, don’t shoot the messenger but there is a great deal more to building healthy bones than drinking your daily glass of milk! If you were thinking that she’s going to ramble at us about more exercise and healthy … Continue reading →

Osteoporosis & Weight Loss

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Osteoporosis is a common disease that affects people as they age, particularly women. Osteoporosis causes bones to become porous and brittle – this can lead to difficulty healing from broken bones and other health conditions. More than 10 million Americans are affected by osteoporosis and most of these are women. As women, we have a more than 25% chance of developing osteoporosis as we age. We reach our peak bone mass when we are about 30 years old. That can be pretty intimidating when you consider that at 30, we have only lived about 1/3 of our expected lifespan. So … Continue reading →