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This is what your bones look like if you have osteoporosis

Vitamin D and calcium are essential to prevent osteoporosis, as this student found.

EATING ENOUGH CALCIUM and vitamin D is essential for good bone health, as this project Saoirse O’Keeffe of Loreto College in Foxrock, Dublin set out to prove.

While undertaking her project, she asked people about how much calcium and vitamin D they consume everyday, and discovered that some of them were at risk of osteoporosis.

This is a bone disease that can leave people vulnerable to fractures.

Here, she demonstrates the difference between a healthy bone and one from a person with osteoporosis.

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    Jul 3rd 2011, 2:39 PM

    He threatened her over the phone too. Why didn’t the media dub him the “phone killer”? Mainstream media’s obsession with demonising modern technology is idiotic.

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    Jul 3rd 2011, 2:44 PM

    I find it bizarre that that’s all you took from that awful story!

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    Jul 3rd 2011, 3:42 PM

    Well he’s pointing out a trend in the media that has manifested itself in this story, is he not? I don’t think he’s claiming it’s the most awful thing about the story.

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    Jul 3rd 2011, 4:18 PM

    Maybe because phone call was only heard by 2 people (plus perhaps whoever was in the room) and Facebook post was possibly seen by hundreds..? Either way, small relevance to the main point of the story. Sickening.

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    Jul 3rd 2011, 6:30 PM

    Facebook, phone, text message…. Who cares. At the end was poor little girl who did not merit this abuse.

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    Jul 4th 2011, 1:59 AM

    Christ on a bike

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    Jul 4th 2011, 12:49 AM

    Face book should have alert system for dab

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    Jul 4th 2011, 12:51 AM

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    Sorry face book should have alert system for that

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