BAD news for women on the pill who like to exercise: they may be prone to
osteoporosis.
If women take the pill, it’s known they risk losing bone mass. But because
exercise was thought to rectify this, women on the pill have been encouraged to
stay active. But when Connie Weaver and her colleagues at Purdue University in
West Lafayette, Indiana, studied 55 women aged 18 to 30, they got a
surprise.
Athletic pill users lost significantly more bone mass than either
couch-potato pill users or women not on the pill who exercised (Medicine
& Science in Sports & Exercise, vol 33, p 873). To…
