Bones & joints
Keeping your bones strong and your joints supple can help prevent falls and fractures, pain, stiffness, and disability. Here’s how to prevent—or manage—osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, osteopenia, and gout.
Bones
One out of four women—and one of 16 men—aged 65 or older have osteoporosis, or brittle bones. Another one out of two have low bone mass, or osteopenia. Here’s how to protect and strengthen your bones.
An expert's take
How to keep your skeleton strong
We talked to Bess Dawson-Hughes—a leading bone researcher at Tufts University—about bone basics, the latest vitamin D recommendations, calcium, acid-producing diets, oxalates, exercise, and more.
Arthritis
More than 30 million Americans have osteoarthritis, which occurs when the tissues in a joint break down. Gout is a painful inflammation of the joints that strikes eight million U.S. adults. Can exercise, supplements, or diets help with either?
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