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"Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour."

Gro Harlem Brundtland on Health

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More quotes by Gro Harlem Brundtland

• "Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone."

• "A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries."

• "Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases."

• "We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases."

• "You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition."