Repeated experiments on animals for the past ...

Prevention of osteoporosis osteoporosis prevention is aimed at changing medical and social attitudes towards and understanding of osteoporosis. Rather than grasp at more complex and expensive treatments for established disease, we ask doctors, public health authorities and government

place emphasis on the systematic prevention of this largely prevent disease that causes severe pain and disability scores thousands of Australians and costs the country about $ 8 billion annually. Repeated experiments on animals, in the last hundred years have shown that osteoporosis is a disease of calcium deficiency, although this may be complicated by lack of vitamin D. We are pleased that the majority of human osteoporosis, especially in postmenopausal women, has the same origin. Because bone loss begins in adulthood, the decision should be to measure bone density in all women at menopause (and perhaps all men aged 60 years), and identify those with low values, which was destined to become osteoporosis. They should increase their physical activity and calcium intake and vitamin D and to limit their consumption of protein and salt may be animals to prevent them from losing more bone. All evidence suggests that these simple measures to significantly reduce the growth of age osteoporosis and fractures and to pay lasix and heart failure their costs many times, not to mention the pain and suffering. More information can be found in the PDF-files below. .