Each year, more than 1.5 million people suffer bone breaks due to osteoporosis.Once you reach your early thirties, women stop building bone density. From that point on, women battle with their bodies to keep the density that they have built. So, right now, as women in our late teens and twenties, we need to increase our bone density as much as possible to prevent Osteoporosis later on in life.

Common Risk Factors

1. family history
2. anorexia
3. low body weight
4. frequently missed periods
5. low calcium diet
6. smoking

Prevention

• Get 1,000mg to 1,300mg per day of calcium.
• During the winter get 400 IU per day of Vitamin D
• Avoid smoking, excessive alcohol and overexercise
• Do 30 minutes of weight bearing exercise 4 times per week.