I’ve seen some nutritionists claim that osteoporosis is a modern phenomenon due to our poor diets and lack of physical activity, but they are so very wrong. Examinations of some Egyptian mummies dating back to around 4,000 years, displayed the telltale signs of osteoporosis including the distinctive dowager’s hump. A dowager’s hump refers to the
When I was much younger, I often heard others say that growing old is hard and it hurts. I never thought much about what they said until I began getting older and experienced the aches and pains of growing older for myself. One of the more common complaints of older people are sore and aching
In the past few months, we’ve talked about osteoporosis in women and dangers broken hips. We showed how women are especially susceptible to osteoporosis due to their giving birth to children and then due to the hormonal changes that occur during menopause. We even looked at the role that genetics can play as a risk
