Suppose that at a distance you see a short, stooped figure walking with short, slow steps. Most likely, you will conclude that the person is old. The hunched posture gives you the clue.

Why does aging contort so many bodies in this way? The reason is that many people, throughout their lives, never extend the neck to its full range, and so the muscles shorten. Long hours of reading, sewing, typing, or standing at a workbench take their toll. Eventually deposits of calcium salts in the joints complete the process of immobilization. Once this calcification takes place, nothing can be done to reverse it.

Kids and teens, pour yourselves a tall one. Chocolate, vanilla or strawberry milk, that is. New research shows that drinking flavored milk increases overall milk intake and improves nutrition without adding extra weight.

A study of nearly 8,000 children and adolescents published in this month’s Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that those who included flavored milk in their beverage selection actually drank more milk overall — both flavored and plain — when compared to peers who only drank plain milk. Because milk is a good source of calcium and potassium, two “nutrients of concern” lacking in the diets of most Americans, drinking more milk leads to better nutrition.

Make no bones about it, the name says it all. Stonyfield Farm has renamed 2-a-Day, its high calcium yogurt, “YoCalcium” to make it an even simpler to keep bone health in mind. And now it’s organic!

Each serving of Stonyfield Farm’s “YoCalcium” contains 50% of the recommended DV (Daily Values) of calcium. That’s more than twice the amount calcium of other leading yogurts.

Finally, an easy way to fill an important need: 9 out of 10 women and teenage girls — as well as many men and teen boys — don’t get enough calcium in their daily diets.(1)