Osteoporosis is the most common type of bone disease. Currently there are an estimated ten million Americans suffering with the disease and millions more have low bone mass and are at risk. Too often a person will sustain a painful fracture before becoming aware that they have the disease. By this time the disease is usually in the advance stages and severe damage has already occurred. Unfortunately there are no symptoms present in the early stages of the disease. There is no single cause that can be attributed to osteoporosis but several risk factors have been identified. While the most prominent factors are uncontrollable and attributed to genetics and age, there are several factors that can be changed which have a moderate impact on the risk of developing osteoporosis.