Healthy bones have tensile and compressional strengths, similar to that of reinforced concrete. Besides providing structural support for the muscles and internal organs, bones also act as a reservoir for important minerals and elements such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, fluoride and sodium. Of these minerals, calcium is the most important for providing the essential bone infrastructure. In addition, bones play an integral role in the overall homeostatic control of calcium in the body (1). Approximately 97 to 99 …showed first 75 words of 753 total…

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