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Please take your time to read this article. I know you/we all aware about Osteoporosis but I guarantee you wanna know more about it.

Topic Overview
From Healthwise

What is osteoporosis?

Osteoporosis is a progressive disease that causes bones to become thin and brittle, making them more likely to break. Osteoporosis may result in broken bones (fractures) in the spine and hip. Hip fractures often require hospitalization, and fractures of the bones in the spine (vertebrae) can cause loss of height and severe back pain. Both may lead to permanent disability.

Whether you develop osteoporosis depends on the thickness of your bones early in life, as well as health, diet, and physical activity later in life. See an illustration of healthy bone versus bone weakened by osteoporosis.

What causes osteoporosis?

During childhood and teenage years, new bone is added faster than existing bone is absorbed by the body. After age 30, this process begins to reverse. As a natural part of aging, bone dissolves and is absorbed faster than new bone is made, and bones become thinner. You are more apt to have osteoporosis if you did not reach your ideal bone thickness (bone mineral density) during your childhood and teenage years. Not getting enough calcium, vitamin D, and phosphorus may contribute to bone thinning.

After age 50, lower levels of estrogen in women and of testosterone in men may speed up bone loss.

If your mother, father, or a sibling has osteoporosis, your risk for the disease is higher.

What are the symptoms?

Osteoporosis is a “silent disease” because typically you do not have symptoms in its early stages. As the disease progresses, you may develop symptoms related to weakened bones, including:

• Back pain.
• Loss of height and stooped posture.
• A curved backbone (dowager’s hump).
• Fractures that may occur with a minor injury, especially in the hip, spine, or wrist.

You can use this tool to check your risk for osteoporosis:

Interactive Tool: Are You At Risk for Osteoporosis?

…got a new look.

Friday, Julie decided to have a haircut, I ignored her cause I didn’t want her to cut her hair but she really insists to have it cut, she even cried. So, I took her yesterday at Ulta without an appointment, luckily there’s one hairdresser available. While watching the hairdresser cutting Julie’s hair I thought that she knows what she’s doing (hehehe) so, i decided to have mine cut too. Here’s some pics:

Tom didn’t like it .

Have a great week everyone. God bless!

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Sunday Loss: Chauncey Billups drained a jumper with 36.6 seconds left to pull the Pistons within two, but couldn’t get any closer in Sunday’s 88-82 road loss in Game 3. Billiups scored 13 points for Detroit, which will visit Cleveland in Game 4 on Tuesday at 8 p.m. on TNT.

rewind for what? hehehe … here I am sick again! Just got over with my bronchitis and another nasty cough! grrrr… over a week na kasi ito eh.

Last week, Julie’s band concert wasn’t so bad, same ‘ol can’t hardly see her. Luckily all the kids had their short solos they stand up and I made sure I got it in video. (will be uploaded when I get a chance). They played “All That Jazz”. As usual after the concert we went out for dinner, we went to an italian restaurant very nice and quiet place, food sooo good. We didn’t get a chance to have a dessert because we start coughing & it was so embarrassing. We hurried up and left.

Then over the weekend i was busy doing some house work. Well, didn’t really do much got tired of coughing and indeed watching all kind of TV shows from sports to stupid reality shows in MTV. hahaha. Billiard was fun then PBA. I remembered Julie’s bowling, 2004 she start playing bowling for the 1st time and got the first place. 2005 she did it again and she also join the little tournament w/c she got the first place and 125.00 dollars scholarship. I wanted her to continue to bowl but she got bored and quit! From ice skating to swimming to whatever the longest she’s in is the school band. She said she will continue softball until high school, we’ll see. (more…)