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Limit amount of alcohol you drink. Alcohol can hurt cells that build your bones. It also lowers amount of calcium in your body.
You must ensure that you are getting all of vitamins and minerals your body needs to promote good health. To do this, you have to take a good quality daily multi-vitamin.
Osteoporosis begins when you are a child and is often not found until you are much older. That is why it is so important to eat well and get lots of exercise to keep your bones healthy and strong.
Essential Vitamins Needed:
In addition to calcium, your body needs magnesium, a mineral necessary to activate chemical reactions that form new bone.
Another mineral important to normal bone formation, manganese, is needed to help make your bones more resistant to breaking.
Your body also needs folic acid to properly build fibrous collagen framework of bone onto which to mineral salts deposit. Without a strong framework, bone will become weak and defective and more prone to breakage.
Vitamin B6 is also needed to build fibrous framework that supports bone minerals.
Vitamin C is very important for collagen and connective tissue formation.
A deficiency of vitamin B12 prevents your body's bone building cells from functioning properly.
There are many essential vitamins and minerals that your body needs on a daily basis to help prevent and treat osteoporosis but best choice by far is coral calcium and above sea coral calcium is even better.
When selecting a coral calcium product, it needs to contain 1.5 grams of above sea coral calcium per serving, complete with a certificate of analysis on display confirming potency.
In addition, and just as important, your coral calcium should be fortified with both a red and green phytonutrient mix using New Zealand grown ingredients.
It's widely accepted that coral calcium, containing a plant- based red and green phytonutrient mix, reflects best possible combination for osteoporosis.
I can confidently recommend this type of coral calcium product to you and have received only very positive feedback from individuals who have already used it.
For more information on how to prevent and relieve osteoporosis please visit:
http://www.womens-health-fitness.com/osteoporosis.html
Phil Beckett is the President & C.E.O of Physique Concepts Inc. and is the author of 3 very popular and successful health & fitness books and designs customized general health, weight loss, flexibility and cardiovascular exercise programs for women. He has trained and educated more than 3000 women of all ages, interests, and limitations, in health, fitness and nutrition, both on-line and off-line for more than 15 years.