Exercise and Calcium can prevent Osteoporosis

Most people think Osteoporosis is an older person condition. But the reality is Osteoporosis begins in the teens – especially in women with poor calcium intake and low exercise participation.

Calcium is an electrolyte for the nervous system; calcium has a big role in muscular contraction and relaxation, and is the large makeup of bones and teeth. If the body is deficient in calcium it will then take the calcium stores in the bones and teeth.

Calcium and Vitamin D shortage is more prominent in the U.S.; Almost too epidemic levels. Seventy-five percent of all adults don’t get their daily need for calcium. Meanwhile exercise participation is too low and that has a direct affect on…