It is easy to ignore joint health when we are young and active. Our joints give our skeletons the ability to bend, thanks to their location at the meeting point of any two bones. This bending lets us go about our routine, performing various tasks with ease. Can you imagine life without joints? We’d just be a bag of bones! Our joints also have cartilage that lines both ends of…
Calcium and Vitamin D come together to make the power combo – they are the duo that guard your bone health. Let’s bone up on what this means! (Ah, there’s a pun!) Did you know? You need adequate calcium in the diet to prevent bone loss and avoid the risk of osteoporosis, a condition where the bones become weak and brittle. Your bones become more prone to breakage even with…
Osteoporosis is a condition where the bones become thin and become prone to painful fractures. It can be a silent disease, but many patients suffer symptoms such as pain and height loss and usually occurs when the creation of new bone cannot keep up with the removal of old bone. The bones become weak and brittle and are more likely to fracture. A number of risk factors contribute to osteoporosis including aging, smoking, low…