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Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for…

— Ann Richards

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

What particularly concerns me is the rise of osteoporosis in young people and its link with eating disorders.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

“In one study of ten countries,14 a higher consumption of calcium was associated with a higher—not lower—risk of bone fracture (Chart 10.3”

— T. Colin Campbell

“Americans consume more cow’s milk and its products per person than most populations in the world. So Americans should have wonderfully strong bones, right?…

— T. Colin Campbell

“Just as welfare was said to "cause poverty," the experts may soon announce that Medicare causes baldness and that Social Security is a risk…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

If I don't take estrogen hormone replacement therapy, I can get osteoporosis.

— Fallon Fox

“Most fragility fractures are a disease without a specific illness; they are part of normal aging.”

— Nortin M. Hadler

Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.

— Andrew Weil