Dallas County Living Well Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 50

WHY BONE HEALTH IS IMPORTANT By Crys Sory, MD When you think about staying healthy, you probably think about making lifestyle changes to prevent conditions like cancer and heart disease. Keeping your bones healthy to prevent osteoporosis may not be at the top of the wellness list. But it should be. Osteoporosis, which means “porous bone,” is a disease characterized by low bone mass (bone thinning) that leads to bones becoming weak and breaking more easily. Throughout your lifetime, old bone is removed (a process called resorption) and new bone i