This Man Is Sporty, Just 46 and Looks Healthy. Yet His Bones Could Snap at Any Minute ; the Number of Male Sufferers Who Get Osteoporosis Is Growing

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Jeremy Miller is the last person you might expect to suffer from the bone disease osteoporosis. He is a sporty, youthful-looking 46- year-old male, so he hardly fits the stereotype for the condition. Also known as brittle-bone disease, it is characterised by fragile bones prone to breakages and is widely perceived to primarily affect postmenopausal women, most famously the Duchess of Cornwall.

But men get osteoporosis, too: onein-five men over the age of 50 in the UK will fracture a bone, as a result of the condition. Almost three million people in the UK are estimated to have been diagnosed with osteoporosis, which costs the NHS and the Government Pounds 6million a day.

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This Man Is Sporty, Just 46 and Looks Healthy. Yet His Bones Could Snap at Any Minute ; the Number of Male Sufferers Who Get Osteoporosis Is Growing

'I didn't know anything was wrong until I was 39 and playing football with my son,' says Jeremy, a vet, who lives in Jersey with his teacher wife Kirsten, 47, son Philip, 21, and daughter Ngaio, 19.

'We crashed into each other and I broke a rib. A year later, wrestling w...

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