Osteoporosis

What happens when calcium is not made a part of a regular diet throughout a human's lifetime? Osteoporosis is a disease that involves the loss of calcium from the bones. In order to understand this, an examination of what osteoporosis is, the diagnosis, and treatment/prevention of osteoporosis must be accomplished. Osteoporosis is a condition that causes bones to thin and weaken.
Osteoporosis is a condition that drains away one of the hardest and most durable substances in the body, the bone (FDA, 2001). This is accomplished by the loss of minerals from the bone, primarily calcium. …