Our speaker today was an expert on physical activity and bone health. He shared a lot of interesting stuff. Probably the MOST interesting to me is this: Bone STRENGTH increases as the 4th power of diameter. This means that a 2% increase in diameter increases bone strength by 2*2*2*2 or 16 % increase in strength!!!
Yet we measure bone mineral density instead of size!!
"Why?" I asked (naturally).
"Because it's easier to measure!" was the expected, and realized, reply.
"Aren't there ways to measure bone diameter and combine that with density for a much better view of bone strength?"
Hmmmmm....
So, once again, we are at the mercy of the convenient, the easier, the tradition, the norm.
It's the story of my own life. I consistently foolishly trade the convenient, the easier, the tradition, the norm, for the really valuable stuff--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. I Peter 1:7.
Yet we measure bone mineral density instead of size!!
"Why?" I asked (naturally).
"Because it's easier to measure!" was the expected, and realized, reply.
"Aren't there ways to measure bone diameter and combine that with density for a much better view of bone strength?"
Hmmmmm....
So, once again, we are at the mercy of the convenient, the easier, the tradition, the norm.
It's the story of my own life. I consistently foolishly trade the convenient, the easier, the tradition, the norm, for the really valuable stuff--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. I Peter 1:7.
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