In America, more than 10 million people have been diagnosed withosteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a serious disease that leads toporous, fragile bone. This disease can cause fractures in thespine, wrist, hips, feet, and other bones. Most people that havebeen diagnosed with osteoporosis did not experience any symptomsfor a long time. The only symptoms that can occur are bonefractures. Consequently, people may not know they have thiscondition until they fracture a bone.So what causes osteoporosis? There are numerous risk factors fordeveloping this condition such thin and small body frames, femalegender, Caucasian or Asian race, family history of this condition,smoking, history of bone fractures, drinking too much alcohol, lackof exercise, calcium deficiency, poor nutrition, inflammation thatdeve