Does Milk Prevent Osteoporosis?

Do you know why the dairy products always remain in great demand? It is basically because we are intelligent people and know that we need much amount of calcium for the protection of bones and tissues. It is estimated that an adult human being requires 800 mg of calcium each day. This amount is quite high in case of a pregnant or nursing woman.
In the developed countries like US it is recommended to have 800 mg to 1200 mg of calcium everyday.  It is basically because in European and American countries undue soft drink consumption is common with both teenagers and adults. The phosphoric acid present in soft drinks removes a significant amount of calcium from the body. This is the reason why the consumption of more calcium is preferable.

It is believed that the daily consumption of dairy products will strengthen our bones. But the story is quite different when it comes to osteoporosis, a common bone disease. Milk is also an important dairy product but some important studies have clearly revealed that the consumption of milk is directly proportional to the rate of osteoporosis. Shocking! Isn’t it?

On the other hand, underdeveloped African Bantu women merely require 350 mg of calcium each day.  In their lifetime they bear up to 9 children and recurrently breast feed them for 2 years. They never suffer from the deficiency of calcium and hardly become the victim of natural bone fracture.

Mother’s milk contains calcium up to 4 times less in comparison to cow’s milk. Mother’s milk can fulfill all the requirements of calcium in babies for the first 2 years. It has been clinically tested and proven that mother’s milk is perfectly suitable to enhance the bone-mineral density in babies.

According to a 1994 study conducted in Sydney on aged men and women, a person who consumes more amounts of dairy products is highly prone to fracture risk. In such cases, the possibility of hip fracture is almost double in contrast to the person with the lowest consumption.

It is an interesting fact that a woman who prefers to drink 2 or more glasses of milk each day has 45% more threat for hip fracture and 5% more threat for forearm fracture. It is also applicable on other food commodities that are rich in calcium.  So, now do you think that milk prevent osteoporosis? The choice is totally yours!

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