A person's lifestyle as an adult, including their diet and exercise habits, and reproductive history, plays a more integral role in bone health than does his or her birth weight or other factors associated with early life, results of a UK study suggest.
Data collected from hundreds of middle-aged individuals revealed that their adult lifestyle had more of an impact on their bone mineral density than did factors related to their early life, such as birth weight. Early lifestyle factors, on the other hand, appeared to influence bone size.
Previous research suggested that a person's health during their middle age years is strongly influenced by their fetal development. Researchers have associated poor growth during this stage, as well as in infancy, with less skeletal growth and bone mass and a greater risk of osteoporosis and bone fracture.
Adult lifestyle predicts bone health
