Why Bone Health Matters
Your skeleton moves you. It protects your brain, heart and lungs. It manufactures blood cells. And it stores and regulates minerals to help your entire system.
Bone Facts
There are 206 bones in your body and it takes an average of 12 weeks to heal a broken bone. The 52 million Americans affected by osteoporosis and low bone density.
What Makes Bones Grow?
As long as growth plates (at the end of long bones in your arms and legs) stay open, you grow. The plates close in the late teens for boys and within 2 years of starting periods for girls.
More Facts
Did you know the femur, or thighbone, is the longest and strongest bone of the human skeleton and the stapes, in the middle ear, is the smallest and lightest bone of the human skeleton.