Why NOW is the time to think about your bones

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Like getting into gardening or buying one of those giant slippers for both feet, osteoporosis might be something that you don’t think you need to worry about until you’re much older. And it’s true that, for most people, the bone-weakening condition is unlikely to reach a stage where you actually break a bone until you’re around retirement age. But, from our 30s onwards, all of us are starting to lose bone density.

And the sooner you do something about it, the better. Because, although around three million people in the UK have osteoporosis, very few of them actually know they have it until they break a bone. So there is this army of fragile-boned women, walking around narrowly avoiding fracturing their spine every single day. And there are more women, because our risk is greater thanks to hormonal changes after menopause. Half of all women over 50 (compared with 1 in 5 men) …