<p>Avoiding alcohol combined with regular exercise can help men build the bones lost from alcoholism, a new study has found.</p><p>The amount of osteocalcin, which is a protein in the bones and teeth, increased over the eight-week period as men continued to avoid alcohol.</p><p>This means that there was a "higher rate of bone formation during continuous abstinence," the authors said in their study.</p>
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