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The osteoporosis prevention plays an important role when considering this disease, the correction of risk factors and changing hygienic habits – diet, are the cornerstones to consider.

Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones become more porous, thin and fragile, therefore the mechanical strength of the forces and tensions that supports daily, is much smaller, increasing the risk of fractures. The disease affects one in five women over forty-five, and four out of ten of more than seventy-five. Thus conditions a social and health problem as it is the main cause of bone fractures in women after menopause and the elderly.

But why bones become porous and fragile?, Because you lose bone mass (protein and minerals, mainly calcium). How can you lose?, Bone is constantly remodeling processes: bone mass is constantly formed and reabsorbed. From thirty-five years old or so, (the age of peak bone mass accumulation), begins to have normal bone loss in small quantities by the rest of life, if to this we add factors that accelerate these losses, the process accelerates.

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