Maintain a Stable, Healthy Weight

Keeping a healthy weight in addition to consuming balanced food can help bone health. For instance, osteopenia and osteoporosis risk are increased by underweight condition.

This is particularly true for postmenopausal women who no longer experience estrogen's bone-protective benefits. In fact, lower bone density and bone loss in this age group are mainly caused by low body weight. On the other hand, other studies indicate that obesity may reduce bone density and raise the risk of fractures because of the stress that comes with being overweight. Overall, it seems that losing and gaining weight frequently, as well as dropping a significant amount of weight quickly, are particularly bad for bone health. In a recent study, it was found that bone loss during weight reduction was not reversed when weight was acquired. This finding raises the possibility that repeated cycles of losing and gaining weight could cause considerable bone loss over the course of a person's lifetime. Your best hope for preserving the health of your bones is to maintain a stable normal weight or a slightly higher weight than normal.