12 Ways to Lower Your Risk of Osteoporosis (Ladies, This is Vital Info!)

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9. Stop Drinking Soda

All sodas, including diet, decaffeinated, and fruit flavored sodas, interfere with the absorption of calcium. To ensure that your bones stay their strongest, avoid excessive consumption of sodas. For the best health, it really is in your best interest to ditch sodas all together, but if for no other reason than to avoid osteoporosis, you should extremely limit your consumption of soda.

Sodas contain compounds called phosphates, which leech the calcium from your bones and increase the rate at which it is removed from the body via urine. High levels of phosphate in the blood also prevent your body from absorbing calcium properly. Drink more water, herbal teas, fortified juices, milk, and smoothies.

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