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Significant Bone Loss
Your bones give your body its shape, help you move, and support your body. Your bones also help protect your heart, lungs, and brain. Even though your bones feel hard and rigid, bones are living tissues that are constantly rebuilding themselves during your life.
Your bones need calcium, vitamin D, and weight-bearing physical activity to stay healthy and strong. If you don't have a healthy diet full of these bone-building nutrients and don’t get enough of certain kinds of exercise, your bones...
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From Our Experts
Calculating Bone Loss
Once we've discovered we have osteoporosis, we all want some reassurance that our best efforts with exercise, diet, supplements and bone... Read more »
Cancer and Bone Loss: “Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me?”
As we age, we become acquainted with the common risk factors for osteoporosis: a thin frame, a family history, growing older. We also may... Read more »
Fosamax Does Not Build Bone, It Prevents Loss and There's a Difference
It seems to me that far too many health care providers are jumping to prescribe one of the "bone-building" drugs as the first response for... Read more »
The Problem with the Bone Density Test: DXA Scans, Bone Density and...
Currently the best available evaluation of one's bone density is performed with a DXA scan. This is a radiological study that uses minimal... Read more »
Best Bones Forever: Tweens and Teens Making a Difference with Bone...
Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could slow or even stop the progression of osteoporosis? Well the Best Bones ForeverTM web site, under the... Read more »
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Breast Cancer Treatment and Bone Loss
Source: Breastcancer.org
Certain breast cancer treatments can speed up bone loss or cause you to lose more bone than you normally would: Chemotherapy: Some chemotherapy... Read more »
Cell phones may reduce hip bone density
Wearing a cell phone in a pocket or at the waist may reduce bone density in the hip, a new study has found. Turkish researchers studied 150 men who... Read more »
Bone loss linked to heart disease
A small study suggests that people with osteoporosis may be more likely to have obstructive coronary artery disease also. Overall, 76 percent of... Read more »
Osteolysis or bone loss after total knee replacement (TKR) can...
Source: eOrthopod
Osteolysis or bone loss after total knee replacement (TKR) can be a problem. Tiny flecks of bone and debris from the backside of the implant lead to... Read more »
Bone loss may continue after weight loss ends
When people lose weight, they often lose some muscle and bone mass as well, but a new study has found that changes in the bone may continue even... Read more »
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