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Diet soda is replacing milk and cheese in teenage girls’ diets, reports Dr. Ann Zerr, who notes that adolescence is the time when the body develops bone density. "If you don’t have adequate calcium, sufficient vitamin D and enough exercise, you can’t build good bone," she said. "I worry that teens are not getting peak bone mass and that this generation of adolescents will have severe osteoporosis at an earlier age." Zerr is clinical director of the IUSM National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. Learn more about the center:
http://www.iupui.edu/~womenhlt/
