The long-term health of your bones and joints depends largely on how you treat them throughout your lifetime. If you hope to avoid the bone loss and complications of osteoporosis, you'll need to be proactive - and just plain active!
Keeping a fit body that can make it for the long haul means getting enough calcium and maintaining a nutritious diet. It means starting AND stopping - that is, getting started on exercise and quitting smoking!
Strength training and weight-bearing exercises will keep you sturdy, upright, and energetic, and stretching will help keep you flexible.
Make physical fitness a part of your everyday life - from the little stretches you do during break-time to an all-out workout - and you lay the path for longevity and continuing health into old age.