Introduction of Sticks and Stone Sticks and Stones

We are the Global Osteoporosis Foundation and our goal is to raise awareness of the causes of diminished bone health and to demonstrate that osteoporosis is a very common but entirely preventable and reversible disease. In the few seconds, it has taken you to start reading this page, someone somewhere in the world has had a broken bone that has been caused by osteoporosis.Every three seconds as you continue to read, another person will suffer an osteoporosis fracture causing pain, incapacity, and potentially life-limiting illness and injury.