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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/do-dense-bones-mean-strong-bones/">Do Dense Bones Mean Strong Bones?</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted March 12, 2008 at 03:00 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">As a woman, you might spend a lot of time worrying and wondering about your bone density, with talk of osteoporosis and bone loss all over health magazines and television programs. Hopefully, you already use exercise as one means of staving off bone loss. But what are the differences between bone strength and bone density? And can you know about one by measuring the other? For a clarification of the differences, read this report from Dr. Gabe Mirkin. The greater the force you put on your bones during exercise, the stronger they become. Researchers at the University of Missouri in Columbia showed that recreational runners have denser bones than cyclists (Journal of Metabolism, February 2008). Another study from Université de St-Etienne in France show that youth soccer players have an increase in bone density over three years…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/do-dense-bones-mean-strong-bones/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/do-dense-bones-mean-strong-bones/">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/do-dense-bones-mean-strong-bones/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/do-dense-bones-mean-strong-bones/">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-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>