Karen Fuller, Director, Health & Nutrition Services of Dorot, teaches us how to stay mobile and keep moving even after turning 50.

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In this segment, bone health and how to keep your bone strong. Because these is a really important part of aging gracefully and feeling good and having independence and all opportunities because we really want to be movable and be able keep moving and have good life. So bone health is one of the key stones of good health and there area lot of different ways to approach it and the most important one is exercise. You want to get your bones to keep feeling the ground and so pounding on the ground, jumping up and down, walking, doing trampoline, and doing weight training anything that stresses the bone well really help them stay fit and keep the self moving. Bones are living creature and they are really like to have a good nutrition, so really matter what you eat and how strong your bones will be. There is a lot of talk about calcium and calcium is really important vitamin and it is not so easy to get in to your system. So you want to eat green leafy vegetables, just what your mother told you and you want to eat them often and you do want to make sure that you track how much calcium you get. There are a lot of different ways to get it and if you take pills or what ever you want to make sure that you take via available calcium. So that is one big issues is getting enough calcium and you want to eat regularly. You want to eat well. You want to eat whole foods. You want to avoid junk foods no surprise there. No process foods you do not want to eat thing that are deplete your body and take things away from your bones. Because remember they are what supports you. There work is to carry you around and there was going to make your life really good.