Make sure that your body gets enough Vitamin d, through your diet and from adequate sunshine. Vitamin D is necessary to help the body adsorb calcium. Don t smoke. Do Weight bearing exercise such as walking, jogging, aerobics, stairmaster or weight lifting, which strengthen the bones as they are challenged. Remember some is good, more is better.
Women lose so much during that window of time, and so often they don t even realize it.
If you, your mother or sister has had breast cancer or endometrial cancer, then the concern is warranted, but otherwise HRT should be seriously considered. He adds that statistics show that the risk of dying from a hip fracture or heart disease is two to three times greater than dying from breast cancer. While bone loss is best prevented by diet, exercise, calcium and vitamin D intake and HRT, many senior women find that they are at significant risk for bone fractures and should seek a physician s help in starting a special medication program to protect them from injury. Years of studies have shown that the bones of white women are traditionally less dense than those of African American women. And while Asian women are usually smaller and have bone density similar to white women, for some unknown reason they too have lower levels of osteoporosis.