Osteoporosis, meaning porous bones, is the gradual loss of bone density. A silent process which may begin during a woman’s thirties, bone loss accelerates after menopause because of the decrease of the bone-retaining hormone estrogen. Women are eight times more at risk for developing osteoporosis than men because of:
Smaller bone structure and bone mass…

As a young person growing up, stories, pictures, movies, and TV shows are constantly bombarding us with images of all kinds. Some funny, some violent, some sexual, and some drug and alcohol related.
Depending on the message you may be seeing at any one time, sometimes these things romanticize any or all of the above…

Many women still believe that osteoporosis is a condition that only affects bone density later in life, regardless of recent efforts of medical experts to establish otherwise. In the most recent issue of Women’s Health Orthopedic Edition, Rebecca J. Locke and Michelle P. Warren, MD from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York discuss the…