If so, what types of lifestyle choices can reduce your risk?
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Answer by La Finita
Calcium rich food, 1500 mg per day, food or supplements plus weight bearing exercise helps. Lack of food, in general, hurts. What calcium is in leafy greens and if it is absorbed is still being researched. Until then, food with added calcium and the above recommendation. Walking causes reverberations in the bones. Bones respond with becoming stronger and sending calcium there when signaled. That's why doctors recommend walking daily 30 minutes rather than swimming which is not weight bearing. A friend of age 22 had early onset osteoporosis. I wonder if it was due to low weight, and consequently little food or lack of milk. Osteoporosis is also genetic.
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