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Fighting osteoporosis in old age is as simple as drinking four glasses of milk a day - when you're in your teens. The bone-thinning disease that strikes the elderly is largely preventable when children and especially adolescents get enough calcium while their bodies are building bone density, doctors say.
Take action:
Kids should eat a healthy diet which incorporates 1 200 to 1 300 milligrams of calcium per day – stay away from empty kilojoules from fruit drinks. Kids should also be active – the human body isn't meant to be watching TV all day long. And kids should get outside to get vitamin D, which helps absorb the calcium.
Visit our Osteoporosis Condition Centre or consult our Healthy Bones Expert.
Take action:
Kids should eat a healthy diet which incorporates 1 200 to 1 300 milligrams of calcium per day – stay away from empty kilojoules from fruit drinks. Kids should also be active – the human body isn't meant to be watching TV all day long. And kids should get outside to get vitamin D, which helps absorb the calcium.
Visit our Osteoporosis Condition Centre or consult our Healthy Bones Expert.
