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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/build-your-bones-at-any-age/">Build Your Bones - At Any Age</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted February 25, 2008 at 06:00 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">The benefits of strength training for women are often touted by medical experts - even two sessions of moderate weight lifting each week can, they say, help prevent bone loss and stave off osteoporosis. But can older women still reap the rewards of building muscle strength? Can it ever be “too late” to bother? Dr. Gabe Mirkin offers up the results of one new study. An interesting study from the University of British Columbia showed that lifting weights strengthens the bones of women in their late sixties. The women were asked to use several weight machines three times a week for one year. At the end of that year, the women gained a tremendous amount of muscle strength, and they also had denser bones. If a woman lives long enough, she will certainly develop osteoporosis which…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/build-your-bones-at-any-age/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/build-your-bones-at-any-age/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/build-your-bones-at-any-age/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/build-your-bones-at-any-age/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-motivation/">her-motivation</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>