Healthy bones are essential for you to achieve a life filled with enjoyment, activity and vitality. Just thing about your bones for a while. What comes to your mind, some vision of lifeless, hard and permanent bones like the dead bones of a skeleton we see in a lab? However your bones are complex living tissue.
They provide structure and support for your muscles, protect your organs and store 99% of the calcium used by the soft tissues of your body for their various functions. Strong healthy bones depend on a person’s bone mineral density. The greater the bone density, the stronger the bone structure.
We reach our maximum bone strength by our early twenties. After the age of 30, your body breaks down old bone faster than it builds new bone. This process speeds up dramatically as menopause approaches and for several years after. After we age, our body absorbs less of calcium and makes less bone friendly hormones.
Our bones become unduly thin if anything interferes with bones reaching their maximum strength or if bones are being chewed up more or if new bone is put back less effectively. Today a college going girl or adolescent never eats calcium rich foods and they consume more fast foods, processes foods and drinks soft drinks which has no calcium needed for bones. Choose a calcium rich food and balanced diet. To fill the potential calcium gap, take a calcium supplement.
