Sipping tea and sharing global opinions with a robed Bedouin as his goats lounge atop a cave in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra. Training her donkey, Asswan, named for her favorite Egyptian city, to pull an antique buggy through the fields of north central Florida.
 
These are the ways Joyce Carta, 55, of Anthony, Florida, chooses to spend her time - osteoporosis or not.
 

"So many things I love to do require being physical," said Joyce, who was diagnosed with osteoporosis three years ago. "There are lots of diseases that you can't do anything about. This one you can."
 
Joyce, who organizes trips to Egypt for sophisticated travelers, takes breaks from her paperwork to take care of her 13-acre ranch.
 
"There are a lot of chores on my ranch. I need upper body strength for that," said Joyce. She also tends a garden and fills her diet with homegrown vegetables like broccoli and eggplant.
 
Joyce wasn't surprised by her diagnosis, since both her mother and grandmother had osteoporosis. But that doesn't mean she accepts fragile bones as a normal part of aging.