{"id":3845,"date":"2008-12-28T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2008-12-24T14:32:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T19:32:22","slug":"youth-exercise-strengthens-bones-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/youth-exercise-strengthens-bones-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Exercise Strengthens Bones for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Encouraging youth sports is obviously a good thing for a number of reasons. It not only helps keep your kids fit, but they are put in social situations that help <a title=\"kids and exercise\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/angry-kids-pep-up-with-exercise\/\" target=\"_self\">build character<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tennis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The benefits may be long lasting for young ladies who take part in weight-bearing activities (running, tennis, volleyball, etc.). A new study shows that older women who participated in weight-bearing activities in their youth now have stronger bones than those who didn&#8217;t.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From <a title=\"osteoporosis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/osteoporosis\/news\/20081222\/youth-sports-build-strong-bones-for-life?src=RSS_PUBLIC\" target=\"_blank\">WebMD<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers say the findings suggest that weight-bearing exercise in adolescence may help maintain strong bones throughout life and compensate for the natural loss of bone strength that occurs in women after menopause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe the most fascinating discovery that came from the study is how the effects were long lasting, even if the person didn&#8217;t continue exercising in their adult life. Researchers say none of the women in the study did weight-bearing exercise at the time of the current study, which suggests that the benefits may last 40 years or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encouraging youth sports is obviously a good thing for a number of reasons. It not only helps keep your kids fit, but they are put in social situations that help build character. The benefits may be long lasting for young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/youth-exercise-strengthens-bones-for-women\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,3695,18,58],"tags":[29,621],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-fitness","category-womens-health","tag-nutrition","tag-osteoporosis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3925,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}