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Bone health: Tips to keep your bones healthy

Protecting bone health is important throughout your life. Understand how diet, exercise and other lifestyle choices can affect bones. Bones do a lot for your body. They provide structure, protect organs, anchor muscles and store calcium. While it's important to build strong, healthy bones during your childhood and teen years, you can take steps to protect bone health when you're an adult too. How likely you are to develop osteoporosis depends on how much bone mass you have by the time you're 30.

7 Things No One Tells You About Osteoporosis

An estimated 10 million people age 50 and older in the U.S. currently have osteoporosis, most of them women. Because of the bone disease’s link to declining estrogen, women who have entered menopause are most at risk. Osteoporosis is characterized by low bone mass that leads to an increased risk of fracture of the hip, wrist, or spine. It’s said to be the most common disease in humans, and it can actually shorten people's lifespan. And just over 43 million Americans are at risk of osteopenia.

10 Natural Ways to Build
Healthy Bones

The foods you eat, including vegetables and protein, and the physical activity you engage in, such as strength training, can help support and maintain bone health and density. Building healthy bones is extremely important. Minerals are incorporated into your bones during childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. Once you reach 30, you have achieved peak bone mass. If not enough bone mass is created during this time or bone loss occurs later, you have an increased risk of developing fragile bones,

3 Ways to Build Strong Bones
For Kids

It's easy to take our bones for granted. After all, they do all their work behind the scenes. But when a bone breaks, it's a big deal. Bones take time to heal, even for kids. Having strong bones in childhood is a good start for bone health throughout life. We build almost all our bone density as kids and teens. Kids with strong bones have a better chance of avoiding bone weakness later in life. Parents can help by making sure kids get the 3 key ingredients for healthy bones: calcium, vitamin D, and exercise.

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