Drinking Milk Night Prevent bone loss?

Calcium in milk is one of the best nutrition for bone health as calcium is more readily absorbed. For maximum results should be consumed milk at night.

According to nutrition experts from the Department of Nutritional Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (Faculty of medicine) dr.Fiastuti Witjaksono, Sp.GK, on the night of osteoclasts or cells of the bone crusher does not work.

"At night we also do not much activity, so that optimal absorption of calcium milk," he said in a celebration 10 Years of Partnership Residents Association Bones Healthy Indonesia (Perwatusi) with Anlene, Wednesday (07/27/2011) in Jakarta.

Bone is living tissue that is active, so growing a young age and have the ability to repair when damaged or broken. This repair process occurs in the bone surface simultaneously. This special bone cells called osteoclasts that mereabsorsi bones have been older, then osteoblasts to replace it with a new one.

After menopause, osteoclasts still absorb and destroy the collagen in bone mineral. However, the osteoblasts become slow work because of lack of estrogen. That's why women at menopause prone to suffer from osteoporosis.

According Fiastuti, vitamin D and calcium should be satisfied since a young age because of bone density reaches its peak at age 30.

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