For women and bone density, that is truer than what you’d expect. A few studies have drawn correlations with diet,/exercise in teenage females and rate of bone fractures when older.
Yep. I can’t help wondering every time I think of bone density testing and the significance of my T score…comparing my results with those of “a healthy young woman”. As in, do they mean someone like me when I was young and healthy or some of the overweight, sedentary specimen of the the same age I see at the mall chowing down on pizza etc? A strong potential for a false reading, if you ask me.
If I’d known how much I was doing right back then, I’d have done it even more!