Healthy Woman Need Healthy Bones!

There is a need for women to build bone density and mass during childhood and teen years since it is needed to anchor muscles, provide structure, and protect sensitive organs. 

Unfortunately, women who failed to build strong and healthy bones during childhood and adolescence may face a greater risk of having osteoporosis. This is a disease that causes the rapid decline of bone density to make the bones become fragile and break easily.

Nevertheless, an adult can protect and sustain her bone density and strength even after menopause.

Safeguarding your bone health is achievable if you follow the tips shared by beauty and health experts at Harley Institute.

Avoid dangerous lifestyle

Smoking and increased alcohol intake could accelerate bone loss for matured women (and men). It is, therefore, recommended that women above 35 years should drastically decrease smoking and alcoholic drinks.

Such lifestyle also increases the chances of diabetes, celiac, and lupus, which can also cause a rapid decline of bone density.

Always consume a diet rich in calcium and vitamin D

As a woman, you need to eat calcium-rich foods right from adolescence. Though not every woman out there has such information, you should start now to eat foods that have a high percentage of calcium and fruits that are rich in vitamin D.

They help to protect your bone against bone density loss and decrease the risk of fractures.

Apart from building bones and keeping them healthy, calcium is also important for your health and wellbeing.

You can get enough calcium from leafy green veggies, dairy products, milk, and cereals while egg yolks, mushrooms, cereals, salmon and tuna are rich in vitamin D.

Engage in daily exercise

As a lady, it's good you increase participation in exercise and activities like walking, hiking and running because your inactivity could increase the chances of having osteoporosis.

If your job responsibility involves only sitting in the office, it is advisable to register in a gym or have a long walk once in two days.

Some factors that affect bone health in women

Age – your bones get weaker, and you will experience a decline of bone density after menopause. This happens naturally, and that is why we suggest preventive measures.

Size – research has shown that are slim or those with a body mass index of 19 or less suffers from a massive decline of bone density when they are aged

Family health history – in case you have a parent that is an osteoporosis patient, then you have a higher tendency of suffering the same at old age.

Early detection and prevention of bone density declination is the solution to potential sufferers of osteoporosis and other bone-related diseases. Therefore, you need to call Harley Institute for osteoporosis screening with advanced equipment like Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA).

With the data gotten from the screening, we could conveniently calculate if you’re at risk of having a fracture over the next ten years. Our experts are always available to help you become stronger, look beautiful, gorgeous, and more attractive. Give us a call for more clarification about our osteoporosis screening and treatment procedure.