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Strong, healthy bones help keep you standing tall and are necessary for an active lifestyle. This information is intended to help you keep your bones strong, so you can enjoy all that life offers. A lifetime of healthy bones begins at a young age because most of our bone mass is developed before we turn 30. But bone is living tissue and it continues to change throughout our lifetime, renewing itself each day. So the choices we make every day affect bone health.
Most Americans don't get enough calcium and many other key bone-health nutrients in their diets. Of special concern, four out of five women don't consume enough calcium.
Exercise and calcium intake as part of a healthy diet may reduce the risk of osteoporosis. The highest-risk group is women in their peak bone-forming years, from 11 to 35. Other people at risk are middle-aged women, Asian women, people with a family history of the disease, and older men and women.
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