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Article: No bones about it: what you must know about osteoporosis. (includes related information)
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- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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It forces its victims to bow their backs, but it is not a dictator. It consumes the bones of its victims while they yet live, but it is not some new technovirus from a Michael Crichton novel.
It is silent.
It is insidious.
"It" is osteoporosis, a crippling disease characterized by low bone density, painful fractures, and loss of independence. Its victims risk breaking important bone systems, such as the hips, the ribs, the wrist, or the spine, because they are too weak to withstand the stress of day-to-day activity. For example, a woman might break a hip from simply sitting down too quickly.
Few fully recover, and according to the ...