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Actress Sally Field Takes Bone Health Message to Capitol Hill

Published in Health Risk Factor Week, June 5th, 2007

When actress Sally Field was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 2005, it was a disappointing development.

“I had always eaten right, I had always exercised, and I had always taken calcium,” Field said in Washington, D.C. “I tried to be a good girl all the way down the line, but it was going to get me.”

Field was in town to talk to legislators at a Capitol Hill briefing sponsored by the Society for Women’s Health Research and the National Osteoporosis Foundation. The event took place during National Women’s Health Week and National Osteoporosis Month, encouraging women to protect their bone health at all ages.

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