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Drinking Milk at Night Prevent Trittle Bones

Prevent Trittle Bones - The calcium in milk is one of the bets nutrient for keeping bone health, because the calcium more easy absorbed by body. For getting maximal result, Milk should be drunk at night.

According to the nutritionist 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 the calcium of milk absorbed optimally,"

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 absorbed by bones that 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. Thats why women at menopause prone to suffer from osteoporosis.

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

"Bone density decreased with age. At the age of 30 years the speed of the process of bone destruction is greater than the speed of the process of bone loss,"

he explained.