Beware! Osteoporosis threatens Indonesia
Osteoporosis is a major and serious problem for the Indonesian population. As many as two out of five people of Indonesia, at risk of osteoporosis according to data from the Ministry of Health nutrition Research Center, 2006.
"This is reinforced by the fact that most Indonesian women lack 50 percent of their daily calcium," says director of Fonterra Brands Indonesia Marketting (Anlene) in a press release on Sunday (24/10/2010).
Meanwhile, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), up to now estimated at about 32.3 percent female and 28.8 percent of men have osteoporosis. The level of osteoporosis sufferers are quite high in Indonesia, according to data distributed Anlene, because the Indonesian people rarely consume dairy.
Indonesia is one of the lowest milk consumers in the world that is consuming less than 10 liters of milk per person per year. This is low compared to the average Malaysian population consumes 25 liters of milk per year.
According to Heru, the osteoporosis is not a problem that can be completed in a short time. It takes a community education to prevent the bone loss disease.
Prevention of osteoporosis should be done since the time of peak bone growth and development that is at the age of 30 years. Since entering this age, bone mass will decrease naturally.
The prevention of osteoporosis by Anlene can be done with such high calcium nutrition mengkonsusmsi high calcium milk. And perform physical activity such as walking or gymnastics osteoporosis.
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