"There’s an old saying, 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and thinking that someday the result will be different.' Now, you can argue that’s also the definition of persistence, but when it comes to osteoporosis, it truly is the definition of insanity. Amazingly, 99 percent of the medical community and the media promote a solution for osteoporosis that not only does not work, but also has been proven to actually exacerbate the problem. And that’s not the worst part: even more insane is the fact that although research has shown that taking more calcium and drinking more milk actually contribute to osteoporosis and make it worse, our doctors don’t just tell us to continue doing these things, they tell us that it’s not working because we’re not doing enough.
Osteoporosis is a generalized skeletal disorder characterized by thinning of the bone and deterioration in its architecture, causing susceptibility to fracture. The key phrase here is susceptibility to fracture. There are two types of osteoporosis. Type I osteoporosis (postmenopausal osteoporosis) generally develops in women after menopause, when the amount of estrogen in the body decreases. This process leads to an increase in the resorption of bone (the loss of bone substance). Type I osteoporosis is far more common in women than in men, and typically develops between the ages of fifty and seventy. The decrease in the overall strength of the bone leads primarily to wrist and spine fractures. Type II osteoporosis (senile osteoporosis) typically happens after the age of seventy and affects women twice as frequently as men. Type II osteoporosis involves a thinning of both the hard-outer bone and the spongy bone inside. This process leads to hip and spinal fractures. Approximately 20 percent of women and 40 percent of men with osteoporosis have a secondary cause such as hyperthyroidism or lymphoma.
Osteoporosis has been recognized as a major public health problem for only the last twenty years. (In the old days, it was just called widow’s stoop.) The increasing incidence of fragility fractures, such as spinal, hip, and wrist fractures, first became apparent from epidemiological studies in the early and mid-1980s. Today, approximately 10 million Americans (8 million women and 2 million men) have osteoporosis. Another 34 million show signs of low bone mass indicative of future osteoporosis.
At the present time, many hip fractures (the major danger from osteoporosis) occur in Europe and North America. In fifty years, however, it is estimated that 75 percent of all hip fractures will occur in developing countries, with the number of hip fractures rising three-fold to 6.3 million a year. The rate of increase for osteoporosis is faster than the growth in population, and it is growing in parts of the world that have never shown much evidence of it previously."
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Osteoporosis is a generalized skeletal disorder characterized by thinning of the bone and deterioration in its architecture, causing susceptibility to fracture. The key phrase here is susceptibility to fracture. There are two types of osteoporosis. Type I osteoporosis (postmenopausal osteoporosis) generally develops in women after menopause, when the amount of estrogen in the body decreases. This process leads to an increase in the resorption of bone (the loss of bone substance). Type I osteoporosis is far more common in women than in men, and typically develops between the ages of fifty and seventy. The decrease in the overall strength of the bone leads primarily to wrist and spine fractures. Type II osteoporosis (senile osteoporosis) typically happens after the age of seventy and affects women twice as frequently as men. Type II osteoporosis involves a thinning of both the hard-outer bone and the spongy bone inside. This process leads to hip and spinal fractures. Approximately 20 percent of women and 40 percent of men with osteoporosis have a secondary cause such as hyperthyroidism or lymphoma.
Osteoporosis has been recognized as a major public health problem for only the last twenty years. (In the old days, it was just called widow’s stoop.) The increasing incidence of fragility fractures, such as spinal, hip, and wrist fractures, first became apparent from epidemiological studies in the early and mid-1980s. Today, approximately 10 million Americans (8 million women and 2 million men) have osteoporosis. Another 34 million show signs of low bone mass indicative of future osteoporosis.
At the present time, many hip fractures (the major danger from osteoporosis) occur in Europe and North America. In fifty years, however, it is estimated that 75 percent of all hip fractures will occur in developing countries, with the number of hip fractures rising three-fold to 6.3 million a year. The rate of increase for osteoporosis is faster than the growth in population, and it is growing in parts of the world that have never shown much evidence of it previously."
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