Methodist Fremont Health
Keeping Your Bones Strong: Preventing Osteoporosis
More than 10 million people are living with Osteoporosis in the United States. Eighty percent are women. It not only weakens bones, but can lead to devastating fractures.
In this month's Health Check report, Dr. Erin Cooper breaks down who is most at risk for getting this bone disease, what we all can do now to avoid getting it later in life and why a bone density screening is so important for post-menopausal women.
Keeping Your Bones Strong: a story every woman should see.
July 2013 WOWT HealthCheck
more than 10 million people are living with osteoporosis in the u.s and 80 percent are women as cerise cole found out in this month's health check what we do now determines how strong our bones will be later arlene viladal is one of the millions of women living with osteoporosis not eating the right things that i should have been doing arlene admits she never really had a great diet or exercise plan something dr aaron cooper says is crucial to prevent bone loss we know that bone density decreases with every year of age so if we're not doing anything about it it's going to get worse the good news about osteoporosis is that it can be prevented so a diet rich in calcium is recommended it's why dr cooper encourages drinking plenty of milk eating lots of yogurt and cheese she also suggests women exercise 30 minutes a day weight bearing or strength exercises are good walking is best and we can't start soon enough because our bone density actually peaks when we're in our 30s and then after that it starts to decrease then with a higher decrease after the after menopause thin women smokers and heavy drinkers are at a greater risk but the condition is tricky to diagnose in everyone the first sign of trouble is usually a fracture a hip fracture is often the most devastating for a lot of elderly people can put them in a nursing home and of course change their quality of life significantly that's why every woman 65 and older should have a bone density screening arlene's last test looked good because she's exercising more and eating better a combination that's good for all of our bones in fremont with gary smolin cerise cole channel 6 news to keep your bones strong dr cooper says try to get at least 1 000 milligrams of calcium a day 1200 after menopause along with 800 units of vitamin d which helps absorb the calcium green leafy vegetables are a great source of calcium and you can always talk with your doctor about taking supplements
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