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Osteoporosis
Definition: go beyond the normal level of bone fragility caused by a reduction in bone mass and destruction of the bone structure. This can break the so damaged bone at the slightest stress or simple falls.
Frequency: According to WHO, one of the 10 most common diseases. It suffer now about 40% of women and 13% of men over 50 years of osteoporosis-related bone fracture. As life expectancy increases, more and more, the incidence of osteoporosis-related fractures in the future will continue to increase significantly.
Formation: The bone is living tissue and is in a constant steady state (continuous assembly and disassembly process). this balance is disturbed, the degraded bone can not be completely replaced. This is lost bone mass.
Causes: Chronic hereditary. Diseases such as for example Overactive parathyroid gland, diabetes mellitus, type 1, chronic hyperthyroidism. inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid diseases, cortisone, kidney damage, underweight (body mass index under 20, see DXA whole-body BMD), calcium and vitamin D deficiency (see Ernähungstherapie), smoking, alcoholism, lack of sex hormones, physical activity (see DAVID therapy), gravity (see vibration therapy)
Prevention: adequate supply of calcium (1000-1500 mg / day) and vitamin D (daily outdoor exercise, Vit D-containing foods), avoidance of smoking and lower weight, regular physical activity, hormone therapy in menopause.

"Drinking milk, so you can get strong bones", is a nutritional wisdom that have yet to hear many more children from their mothers. It has long been proven that not only affect calcium absorption, but many different factors, bone density and thus protect against osteoporosis, ie bone loss in old age. This mainly includes regular exercise, adequate sunlight and various vitamins and minerals. We give you ten foods that make your bones strong:

Movement creates strong bones

Our skeleton is made mostly of calcium. Here are the bones of his dead tissue, bone, the rest of your life up and degraded. How hard are the pillars of our body depends on several factors. So regular exercise is considered the most important measure for preventing bone loss. The reason: The loads stimulate bone metabolism.

Martial arts training appears to be a safe way to teach osteoporosis patients how to reduce the risk of injury when they fall, a new study suggests.

Researchers in the Netherlands studied the potential benefits of fall training in six healthy people.

“For obvious safety reasons, this could not be directly assessed using persons with osteoporosis.

(HealthDay News) — Stanford researchers have found a way to significantly speed up the healing of broken bones in mice, a feat which, if replicated in humans, could mean people with fractures would be free of their casts a lot sooner.
“This has huge implications,” said Dr. Victor Khabie, co-director of the Orthopedic and Spine Institute at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. “Broken bones is a big problem, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.”

WEDNESDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) — Elderly individuals who had fallen and then taken part in an intensive program to prevent falls were much less likely to fall again, a new study shows.

But proving something works is often a far cry from actually seeing it implemented, one expert noted.

“People have been proposing intervention programs like this for a long time,” said S. Jay Olshansky, a professor of public health and senior research scientist at the Center on Aging at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “We know that they work. The question is how much all of this costs,” he added.

Prevention

After the age of about 30, bone thinning is a natural process and cannot be stopped completely. Whether you develop osteoporosis depends not only on the thickness of your bones early in life but also on your health, diet, and physical activity later in life. The thicker your bones, the less likely the bones are to become thin enough to break. Young women in particular need to be aware of their risk for developing osteoporosis and take steps early to slow its progress and prevent complications. Plentiful physical activity during the preteen and teen years increases bone mass and greatly reduces the risk of osteoporosis in adulthood. If you eat a diet adequate in calcium and vitamin D and exercise regularly early in life and then continue with these healthy habits, you may be able to delay or avoid osteoporosis.

The risk of osteoporosis increases with age as bones naturally become thinner. After age 30, the rate at which your bone dissolves and is absorbed by the body slowly increases, while the rate of bone building decreases. Both men and women lose a small amount (approximately 0.4%) of bone each year after age 30.4
In women, more rapid bone loss usually begins after monthly menstrual periods stop, when a woman's production of the hormone estrogen slows down (usually between the ages of 45 and 55). A man's bone thinning starts to develop gradually when production of the hormone testosterone slows down, at about 45 to 50 years of age. Women typically have smaller and lighter bones than men. As a result, women develop osteoporosis far more often than men. Osteoporosis usually does not have an effect on people until they are 60 or older.

Osteoporosis is a progressive disease that causes bones to become thin and brittle, making them more likely to break. Both women and men are more apt to have osteoporosis if they fail to reach their optimum bone mineral density during the childhood and teenage years, critical times for building bones.

Osteoporosis is related to the loss of bone mass that occurs as part of the natural process of aging.

What is osteoporosis?

Osteoporosis is a disease that affects your bones. It means you have bones that are thin and brittle, with lots of holes inside them like a sponge. This makes them easy to break. Osteoporosis can lead to broken bones (fractures) in the hip, spine, and wrist. These fractures can be disabling and may make it hard for you to live on your own.

See a picture of healthy bone versus bone weakened by osteoporosi.