There are lots of good reasons to try and follow a healthier diet.

You lose weight, you feel good, but the main reason, to live a longer, happier, more productive life.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we look at bone mineral density screening,

the safety and efficacy of oral and

injective medications which foods may protect our bones, and more.

Only one in five adults in the world may have osteoporosis.

That's hundreds of millions of people. The word

osteoporosis literally means porous bone. Now most of our bone is actually

porous to begin with.

Bone mineral density is considered to be the standard measure for the diagnosis of osteoporosis.

Although the bone mineral density cut off for an osteoporcess diagnosis, kind of arbitrary.

Using the standard definition, osteoporosis may affect about 1 in 10 women by age 60,

2 in 10, by age 74 in 10, by by 8 and 6 or 7 out of 10 by 90.

Osteoprocess is typically thought of as a disease in women,

but one-third of hip fractures occur in men.

The lifetime risk for osteoporotic fractures for 50-year-old white women and men

are 40% and 13% respectively.

The good news is that osteoporosis need not occur.

Based on a study of the largest twin registry in the world,

less than 30% of osteoporotic fracture risk is

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