May always reminds me of my mother, but not just because of Mother’s Day. May is also National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month. For the last ten years of her life, my mother suffered significant disability from having osteoporosis. People diagnosed with osteoporosis have thin bones. Their bones become weak and more likely to break. …
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Osteoporosis is a condition of weak bones, which makes them more likely to break. Ten million Americans have osteoporosis and 44 million have thinning bones, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), a health organization dedicated to preventing osteoporosis and broken bones though awareness, education and research. In the United States, one out of every …
Q: Which calcium supplement? Which one is best? This issue strikes close to home with me because my mother fractured her wrist, then her hip and eventually died from complications from osteoporosis. Those of us who are over 50 years of age, female, post menopausal, have a family history of osteoporosis or a slight build …