I confess: If I think about skeletons, it’s around Halloween. I especially enjoy the yard displays of larger-than-life skeletons engaging in mundane activities, like walking skeleton dogs. But our own skeletons are something we should be thinking about year-round, especially as we age. Heading into midlife and beyond, bones can lose their heft. A drop below a certain bone density leads to a diagnosis of osteoporosis and bones that are weak and fragile. Osteoporosis can happen to all adults, but it’s more common in women — about 27 percent of U.S. women age 65 and older have the disorder compared with close to 6 percent of men the same age, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sign up for our newsletter We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday. #dont #wait #until #menopause #strengthen