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Every year, about 4000 people in New Zealand fracture their hip. Judging from how my mother seemed last year when it happened to her, it is worth avoiding. The crumpled top of her femur, which was pronounced to consist of thin bone, was promptly replaced, and she received brochures advising her to drink and eat plenty of calcium – the big sources of which include dairy, sardines