Foundations for healthy bones
Dawn Collins
(freelance as the Children′s Education Officer for the National Osteoporosis Society, Bath, UK)
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Abstract
Alerts health educators to the message that eating a healthy diet and taking regular exercise in childhood and young adulthood can help to prevent the bone disease osteoporosis in later life. Describes a teaching pack produced by the National Osteoporosis Society for primary school children. Summarizes evidence that school children take insufficient exercise and that many teenagers have a poor calcium intake. Reports on feedback from schools which have used the teaching pack.
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Citation
Collins, D. (1995), "Foundations for healthy bones", Health Education, Vol. 95 No. 4, pp. 27-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/09654289510089185
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1995, MCB UP Limited