Osteoporosis can lead to fractured bones in your spine, causing you to slump. That shortens your abdominal cavity, giving your belly no place to go but out, says willibald Nagler, MD, physiatrist in chief at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. If you're age 50 or over, be sure to get 1,500 mg of calcium every day from the foods you eat and/or from supplements. (If you're younger than 50,1,000 mg a day is the ticket.)  

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