Strictly star on how the Queen shows you can 'dance your way to healthy bones'

Craig Revel Horwood has praised the Queen for her committedness to the osteoporosis cause, and said she is simply a bully illustration of however creation tin assistance your bony health.

Camilla began supporting the Royal Osteoporosis Society successful 1994 aft her parent died from the information aged 72. She is President of the nine to this day.

Strictly justice Craig, a long-standing ambassador for the ROS, praised Camilla for her work, saying: “Her parent suffered terribly and died of osteoporosis, that’s why
she wanted to go ­president of the charity.

“Since she has go Queen that truly hasn’t changed what she has stood up for each these years.

“It was her who inspired maine to privation to get progressive arsenic well. She pulled the full nine together.”

Earlier this month, the Queen, 77, held a reception astatine Clarence House and presented an grant to this paper successful ­recognition of its “outstanding publication to tackling osteoporosis and improving bony health”.

Our Better Bones crusade was besides shortlisted for Campaign of the Year by the Society of Editors. Camilla took the accidental to stock however her parent Rosalind “died due to the fact that it was ne'er diagnosed successful those days and aged radical were conscionable formed aside”. She said determination was an cognition of “Sorry, we can’t bash thing astir it”, adding that “had she lived nowadays, a batch would person been done astir it”.

Choreographer Craig 59, besides praised Camilla’s dancing skills, and said that creation is the perfect mode of keeping acceptable and healthy, and helping your bones.

He added: “The Queen loves dancing. When she starts dancing she lights up. She’s a large dancer, she’s fantastic.

“It is simply a fantastic workout and tin bash truthful overmuch for you. Music is simply a fantastic inspiration due to the fact that you tin enactment your favourite euphony connected and creation astir doing a weight-­bearing exercise. Suddenly you’re gathering strength, improving your bony wellness without adjacent realising it.

“It besides releases endorphins, similar immoderate workout does, and that’s the earthy blessed drug. So you consciousness truthful overmuch better. It makes you consciousness bully astir yourself – immoderate benignant of dancing, whether it’s jazz, tap, modern, ballet, anything.” The ROS advises radical of each ages “the champion mode to support bones beardown is to bash some weight-bearing interaction and muscle-strengthening exercises”.

Craig, who besides directs the UK circuit of Strictly, added: “You don’t request tons of space, you tin bash it successful virtually 2 quadrate metres. As you’re doing that, it’s gathering the bony bank. It’s truly important to promote radical to conscionable get retired determination and person a bully clip with your life, due to the fact that beingness tin beryllium a immense situation and workout similar dancing makes everything consciousness better.”

The Sunday Express past week launched Better Bones for Life to rise consciousness of the illness and promote radical to cheque their risk. More than 400,000 radical person present done truthful connected the three-minute hazard checker astatine theros.org.uk/risk-checker, and 49,000 person gone connected to person an aboriginal osteoporosis diagnosis arsenic a result.