Bear down on your bones. (Lifelines).While it's long been known that regular physical activity influences good bone health throughout your lifetime, research now shows that bones are particularly responsive to weight-bearing activities during early childhood growth periods. And that doesn't mean your 10-year-old needs to start pumping iron. Weight-bearing describes any activity done on your feet that works your bones and muscles against gravity. Researchers studied a small group of adolescent ad·o·les·cent adj. Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence. n. A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity; a teenager. females who regularly participated in weight lifting weight lifting, international sport, also a training technique for athletes in other sports. From the earliest times men have lifted weights as a test of strength. , swimming, or tennis. Bone analysis of each girl showed that those who were swimmers had significantly less bone mass, while the bone mass in the weight lifters weight·lift·er or weight lift·er n. One who lifts heavy weights for exercise or in an athletic competition. weight lifter n → levantador(a) m/f de pesas and tennis players was about the same. (American Academy The American Academy in Berlin is a non-partisan academic institution in Berlin. It was founded in September 1994 by a group of prominent Americans and Germans, among them Richard Holbrooke, Henry Kissinger, Richard von Weizsäcker, Fritz Stern and Otto Graf Lambsdorff and opened in of Orthopaedic Surgeons) |
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