Depression affects much more than your mood. New research has shown there’s a very strong relationship between depression and bone loss in young women. The link is especially strong in those women who’ve been diagnosed with clinical depression by a psychiatrist.
Bone loss is dangerous since it may lead to osteoporosis, which increases the risk for fractures. Osteoporosis affects one in three women over 50, making it the most widespread degenerative disease in the developed world.

Since there haven’t been many large studies on the association between depression and osteoporosis, the US National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization haven’t …read more