Annotations for Subject: Womens Health

Why are you speaking out on something so, I mean a lot of people are going to say, what do you mean Rita Moreno speaking out about osteoporosis?

I found that I had a low bone mass when I had a bone density test about a year and a half ago and I was shocked.

Now that's not osteoporosis but it's on the way and I was astonished to find that I have been athletic all my life.

And originally would have been the poster girl for good bone health and good all kinds of health had this potentially debilitating and crippling disease.

So I've gotten on this campaign to make women aware of the importance of having a bone density test.

It's a disease that is really horrendous because it has no symptoms. It is not arthritis.

You don't get pain in the joints. You don't have trouble getting up or sitting down.

If you don't take the bone density test when you go into menopause, your one symptom may be a serious, serious fracture.

And that's something that can be prevented. So here I am.