Do I Really Need to Care About My Bone Density?

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About a year ago, I took an online Pilates class that has haunted me ever since. The workout itself was fine, but it was an offhand comment the instructor made about bone density that got me. Hers, she said, was exceptionally good. She’d recently gotten a bone scan and had been told by her doctor that she had amazing bone density for her age (she is in her early 30s). She attributed her wonderful bones to Pilates and moved on, but I didn’t.