Facts About Bones
About Bones
- Bone is active living tissue. It is constantly being rebuilt and regenerated.
- Bones can begin to break down after age 25.
- By weight, the entire skeleton replaces itself every 7 to 10 years.
- Every 8 minutes, someone is admitted to an Australian hospital with implications of poor bone health. This is expected to rise to every 3-4 minutes by the year 2021.
- In 2002, 1.9 million people in Australia had poor bone health. This number is expected to rise to 2.2 million by the year 2006 and to 3 million by the year 2021.
- poor bone health is estimated to cost Australia $1.9 billion each year.
- As many as 4 out of 5 people with poor bone health don't know that they have it although they are at risk of fracturing a bone.
- Poor bone health affects 1 in 3 women over 50 worldwide or 1 in 2 women over 60 years in Australia
- Poor bone health affects 1 in 5 men over 50 worldwide or 1 in 3 men over the age of 60 in Australia.
About Maintaining Bone Health
- Women in Australia are on average not meeting their daily calcium requirements.
- Average calcium intake for women over 19 years is 749 mg/day. The current RDI1 is 800mg/day. The NHRMC has recently increased their RDI to 1000mg day.
- Mean dietary vitamin D intake in women = 1.2 ug/day. The RDI1 is 10ug
- ANLENE provides 100% RDI1 for calcium, vitamin D and 50% RDI1 of magnesium and zinc in two (250ml) serves.
1std 1.1.1 Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code
- Useful Links
Check out our list of sites you might find useful about poor bone health and related topics