Every year in May I always think of my mother, but not just because Mother’s Day is in May. May is also National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month and my mother suffered for over a decade with it, eventually dying from complications of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a condition of having weak bones, making them more …
National Osteoporosis Foundation
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 …