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Building Better Bones: Preventing Osteoporosis
By age seventy-five, 90 percent of us are expected to have some osteoporosis. Osteoporosis can turn a simple twist or fall into a fractured wrist, spine, or hip. Just lifting a bag of groceries can be enough to crack a bone!

Although we picture them as cold and hard, bones are actually made of living cells, continually wearing out and building up again. For most of us, our bones are at their strongest—what experts call peak density—around our mid-thirties. Read more...


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