It’s estimated more than three million people in the UK and Ireland have osteoporosis and more than 500,000 people receive hospital treatment from osteoporosis related fragility factures every year, as Dr Annette Creedon, nutrition manager for the British Nutrition Foundation, points out.
The condition means bones become weaker, making them more prone to breakage. “Bone is a living, growing tissue, with old bone tissue continually being removed and replaced by new bone tissue,” explains Creedon. “This is a continual process that happens throughout the lifecycle, but when you have osteoporosis, old bone tissue is removed faster than new bone can be produced.”
