OSTEOPOROSIS
How To Fight Osteoporosis
All people suffer at some point in our lives osteoporosis, because as you get older our bones lose density and strength and this can be a real danger when involved falls or blows or when recovering from a fracture. The group most at risk are postmenopausal women, so this theme are especially interested.
Osteoporosis, such as the word implies, is the greater porosity of the bones, making them more brittle and breakable when a blow. It is a disease we all suffer as they get older. However, the largest risk group are women after menopause.
Often osteoporosis is diagnosed after a fracture. The bones most likely to break due to this health problem are the hip, lumbar and thoracic vertebrae, wrist and shoulder. Besides the ease of other fractures due to osteoporosis is the decrease in size in old age.
As already explained, osteoporosis is a real disease has no cure and the best and most effective way to combat it is a good prevention.
To prevent this we must pay special attention to four key factors that will help keep bones healthy and strong in the future, even if they belong to that group of people at increased risk :
