Exercise is good…and for bone density you don’t even have to do that much,but it has to be weight bearing, so you have to be up and moving around not riding an exercise bike or whatever. We have several great stories about people and bone density from kung fu. The best documented was a woman that had been diagnosed with osteoperosis and was in her 60s. It was slowly getting better while she was on the drugs and faster when she started taking kung fu. Then she got to black belt and started doing iron bone training and the very next year her doctor said she “miraculously no longer had osteoperosis” and her bone density was actually very good for her age. And I’ll bet if she keeps up the training her bone density will continue to get better.

Secondly, thanks for the info, I’d not heard that put into perspective. I’ve been a little lazy about exercise lately, too, so that’s great encouragement to get back to it.

And, of course, the artificial sweetners are horrible for you.

The bone density loss is actually not meaningful in a normal healthy active person. Far FAR more important is weight bearing exercise. Calcium and vitamin D supplements have been found to be almost neglible in bone density. Your body is specifically designed to keep the acidity of what you eat and drink from affecting your blood chemistry, so the whole losing bone density because of the acid/carbination in soda isn’t really much of an affect. The only thing that has been consistently found to help increase or at least maintain bone density is consistent and regular weight bearing exercise. All data indicates that iron bone training when done correctly radically increases bone density, but it’s never been specifically studied so it’s all just hearsay.

So, yes, everyone should stop drinking sodas because they are horrible for your health. But bone density loss isn’t one of the reasons you should stop. Bone density loss is the reason everyone should do exercise that involves moving around.

Good luck with the quitting.