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How do weight-bearing activities affect your bones? Answer in complete sentences.

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Activities that put stress on bones stimulate extra deposits of calcium and nudge bone-forming cells into action. The tugging and pushing on bone that occur during strength and power training provide the stress. The result is stronger, denser bones.
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I don’t fully know all I know is so thing to do with gravity! Look at the person below me !
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