I just had my 45th birthday which solidly places me in the “middle aged” category. I also work with many other women in this age range. For those of us that fall in this category, it means that around this time, doctors begin testing our bone density to screen for a condition called Osteoporosis. If you are not really sure what that is, the Mayo Clinic describes it like this: “Osteoporosis occurs when the creation of new bone doesn't keep up with the removal of old bone.” The precursor to Osteoporosis is Osteopenia. This is “when your bones are weaker than normal but not so far gone that they break easily, which is the hallmark of osteoporosis” as described by