Category Archives: Healthy bones Osteoporosis Rheumatic

WORK OUT WITH WEIGHTS FOR HEALTHY BONES

You know you should be getting 30 minutes of weight-bearing aerobic exercise three times a week. If you don’t have a routine already, start with walking, as described in the previous chapter. Whatever you decide to do in the way of aerobics, strength training is a valuable addition because we know it builds bone more [...]

THE BONE DENSITY PROGRAM: HEALTHY BONES, HEALTHY BODY

Meet your bones. I bet you think of them—if you think of them at all—as solid like stone, strung together somehow to hold up the rest of you. (“The head bone’s connected to the neck bone, the neck bone’s connected to the . . .”) Most people don’t pay any attention to their skeletons unless [...]