To help keep your bones healthy and to keep osteoporosis at bay, you will need to consider a few options. If only it were that simple… take a few supplements, do a couple of exercises and drink milk. No, it’s not like that, and you need to consider a few other things to have healthy bones, and to continue to have healthy bones into your retirement and beyond.
Osteoporosis is where the bones become weak and break easily. It sounds like something that happens to the very old, but don’t be disillusioned. It can happen at any age, especially for those who have had Anorexia. Although bone density decreases with age, osteoporosis causes the bone density to increase much quicker. If we have poor diets, the risk is greater. If we do little exercise it also greater. Read on, and see what you can do to help prevent this ‘silent epidemic’.
Do’s
Eat a balanced diet. Include foods such as dairy, almonds, soya beans, tofu which are rich in calcium. Also sesame seeds and dried figs.
Do weight-bearing exercise, such as jumping or jogging. Even walking up stairs two at a time will have the same effect.
Go out in the sun, as this will give your body much-needed vitamin D, which helps the body absorb calcium. Have as much as twenty minutes a day, if possible.
Don’t’s
Don’t smoke. This will inhibit cells to strengthen bones.
Don’t drink too much. Keep to the guidelines of 2 – 3 units a day for women, and 3 – 4 units a day for men.
If you lose a lot of weight, combine this with exercise to help strengthen bones. Anorexia is a massive cause of osteoporosis in young people.
Our society spends thousands of dollars on health and health products, and accessories to make our bodies look beautiful. Go to any drugstore and see face products on the shelf, costing the earth. But what do we do about our insides? Don’t forget that our skeleton is as important as our skin, and that without a healthy skeleton, no amount of skin products will help maintain our looks. There is no substitute for exercise and a good diet.
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