What are the best ways of preventing osteoporosis?

What are the best ways of preventing osteoporosis?

Charles Triay (General Practicioner) gives expert video advice on: What are the best ways of preventing osteoporosis? and more...

To prevent osteoporosis, a patient ought to have a high calcium intake in their diet. Calcium is contained mainly in milk products. Of course, we often don't advocate whole milk in older patients because they may have a concomitant cholesterol problem. We do recommend skimmed milk where the fat has been removed. We know that the calcium content of milk is not in the fat content. Therefore, skimmed milk is very useful to prevent osteoporosis, along with skimmed milk products such as yoghurt. The other simple measure to take to prevent osteoporosis is exercise. The pounding of bones on a hard surface when you walk, jog or run stimulates the bone to deposit more calcium within it. That's a very simple measure to prevent osteoporosis. Other measures include taking in the sun, because sun rays, or ultraviolet radiation, in small measures will be sufficient to active vitamin D to its active form, and help calcium to be deposited to the bones. The rest really involves medication and ought to be assessed by a doctor.