Last year my Great grandma tripped and fell in the garden, she broke her hip and was hospitalised for a little while. This put a big strain on our family as my great-granddad relied on my great-grandma for almost everything. From cooking to cleaning, and washing and ironing he didn't know where to start.

Although my Great-grandma didn't get injured because of osteoporosis, it did begin to make me think, my bones are stiffening, and I'm not getting any younger, am I keeping my bones in a healthy condition?

In everyone's childhood, its likely that you will fracture at least one bone, and have a few scraps every now and again, and in our 20's we are fit and healthy and we don't really tend to think about of bones, along as we look and feel healthy. Bones are living tissue and are constantly changing, remodelling and undergoing synthesis. Diet is really important for keeping our bones healthy, sugar, fats, and white flour lack in micronutrients.
 
Everybody knows calcium is important for good bones, but it's not all you need.  You also need vitamin k, vitamin B6, vitamin D, vitamin B16, manganese, folic acid, silicon, zinc, magnesium and boron. Although you don't need to take supplements for all of theses nutrients, you do need to eat a healthy diet. Nutritional experts say 80 % of Americans have a magnesium-deficient diet, and he UK is well on the way.

If many of us have had bad diets, that could affect our bones, it easy to solve, simply changing a few things in your lifestyle could make radical changes to your health. Medical evidence supports a progression in bone density where people make lifestyle changes to include weight bearing exercises, a healthy diet with lots of fruit and vegetable.

Please don't wait till your bones are in a seriously weak condition, make a small change to create a large difference and do it now.