Category — Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis – Why Young Women are at Risk
Your overall health habits, especially in your teen years, can affect your bones for the rest of your life. That’s because women develop 40 percent of their bone mass between the ages of 14 and 17. You keep adding bone mass until you’re about 30, but not the amounts you get in those early years.
What can you do in your 20s, 30s and 40s, when your main bone-building years are behind you? Take the following eight steps to protect your bones now…
November 17, 2009 No Comments