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Article: Standing tall: how calcium can help keep you strong. (includes list of information sources)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- November 1, 1992
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You visit your 70-year-old grandmother and note that she looks a little more stooped over. You notice that your great-aunt looks as if she's gotten shorter. Your elderly neighbor is in the hospital with a fractured hip after slipping on a wet spot on the kitchen floor.
You're looking at three of the more than 15 million to 20 million Americans who suffer from the bone-thinning disease that is known as osteoporosis.
What Makes Up Bone?
Osteoporosis is Greek for "porous bone." It's a condition that will affect as many as half of all American women over 45 years of age and 90 percent of women over 75. Males can also develop it, although their ...