A Special Thank-You to Daniela Josi for contributing this article.
Good health is more than skin deep. To prolong your quality of life and ensure a strong skeletal frame for the future, it’s time you start giving your bones a little TLC.
Keeping bones healthy is a lifelong process, and from childhood to adulthood, your eating and lifestyle habits can prevent you from developing a debilitating disease down the road.
Most of the time osteoporosis manifests later in life, however can affect younger people as well especially those that suffer or have suffered from an eating disorder. Most people do not realize that they have osteoporosis until they fracture or break a bone.
Reduce your risk through exercise
There are several ways to help reduce the risk of osteoporosis. Today we’ll address the importance of exercise.
Evidence shows that exercise may help build and maintain bone density at any age. Studies have seen bone density increase by doing regular resistance exercises, such as lifting weights, two or three times a week. This type of weight bearing exercise appears to stimulate bone formation, and the retention of calcium, in the bones that are bearing the load. The force of muscles pulling against bones stimulates this bone building process. So any exercise that places force on a bone will strengthen that bone.
Weight-bearing exercises are the most effective to build bones. These include activities such as walking, stair climbing, running, hiking, and weight lifting. Swimming and bicycling are not considered weight-bearing exercises.
Exercise will also increase muscle strength, coordination, and balance and therefore decrease the likelihood of falls in the elderly.
Don’t worry; you don’t have to become a body builder or a marathon runner. An activity such as walking for at least 30 minutes several times a week can make a difference.
To your health,
Daniela
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Excellent article! I thought you just had to drink milk, I didn’t know exercise helped too!
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