Because cartilage isn’t nourished by blood, the best thing you can do to maintain it is to move around a lot, to keep the cartilage bathed in its own synovial fluid. The worst thing you can do is to pack on a lot of extra body weight. Try walking around all day with a couple of bowling balls tied to your belt and see if you don’t feel it in your hips and knees at the end of the day. Well, that’s essentially what you are doing already all day every day if you are twenty-five or thirty pounds overweight. It’s little wonder that so many of us end up undergoing corrective surgery as the years
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