The oils were for ritual purposes, as well as preventing the limbs and bones from breaking while being wrapped.

Splints or braces to support bones and joints can help prevent weakened bones from breaking.

It is also used to prevent weak bones (osteoporosis), as well as cancer of the lung, stomach, colon, breast and other types of cancer.

For preventing weak bones (osteoporosis): 40 grams per day soy protein containing 2-2.25 mg isoflavones per gram.

The drugs, doctors say, largely prevent excruciating bone pain and fragile bones that break like kindling.

In addition to medicine, there is much you can do to help slow the process and prevent broken bones:

In her day, they didn't know as much about using hormones after menopause to prevent "brittle bones."

And calcium didn't prevent broken bones the way it was hoped it would.

That has value in preventing 'jelly bones' in space on a long-term space mission.

Pairing vitamin D with extra calcium does appear to help prevent broken bones in the elderly, however.