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Health Tip for 11/20/2008

If you’re under 35 years old, you’re probably adding to your bone bank account, even if you don’t know it. Dr. Julie Carkin, with the Seattle Arthritis Clinic at Northwest Hospital, says up to that age, if you eat well and take in enough calcium and vitamin D, you’re building up important reserves of high-quality bone. Dr. Carkin says it’s important to build up bone density, to prevent crippling fractures later in life. The latest research says most women don’t have enough vitamin D, and that the recommended amount has gone way up – to between 800 and 1000 international units a day. Vitamin D is extremely important, since you can’t absorb calcium without it. Calcium and vitamin D are the building blocks of bone, so making sure you include them in your daily life is the way to insure that you’re making deposits in your own personal bone bank.

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