Exercising multiple times a week may help strengthen your bones. As women get older, their bones get weaker but a new study has found that regular, light exercise may be the key to good bone health. “[The study]  found that women who exercised consistently every week experienced bone loss, but the reduction was significantly less than a control group that didn’t exercise regularly. In regular exercisers, bone density decreased by 1.5% in the spine and 5.7% in the hip over 16 years. Among controls, bone density in the spine and hips declined by 5.8% and 9.7%, respectively.” The study found that exercising twice a week was necessary and any less would be ineffective.

Eating too much government-subsidized food may lead to adverse health effects. The CDC studied foods like wheat, rice, dairy, and other affordable but typically processed foods. “Even though these are not the foods the government tells us to eat with their dietary guidelines, they’re the foods the government makes cheap. More than half of Americans’ calories came from subsidized foods, the study authors found. In the research group’s prior work, this hasn’t proven to be a good thing; diets full of subsidized food were rich in dairy, carbohydrates and meat and low in fruits, vegetables and overall quality. Younger, poorer, less educated people eat vastly more quantities of subsidized food, the same group of researchers found. Compared to people who ate the least amount of subsidized food, the people who ate the most had a 37% higher risk of being obese, a 41% greater risk of having belly fat, a 34% higher risk for having signs of elevated inflammation and a 14% higher risk of having abnormal cholesterol.” Researchers suggested government subsidies be adjusted to encourage more fruit and vegetable production