3. Childhood and adolescence
During childhood and adolescence produces the growth of the organism with the formation of bone from growth cartilage and subsequent ossification, strengthening it.
To acquire optimal development is necessary to maintain adequate nutritional status. With prevention in childhood is to attain a higher degree of bone mass and ensure a better ossified bone during the stage of old age.
Puberty is the period in which most increases bone density, and in this period that achieves the so-called “peak bone mass, whose quality is essential to avoid further risks. Bone mineral density can be modified with diet and exercise up to 20%.
Becomes very important a balanced supply of proteins (both over the defect in this sense may contribute to bone resorption), the supply of vitamins through plenty of fruit and vegetables and intake of minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and magnesium.
The dietary calcium should be obtained primarily from dairy foods, as well as fortified. The continued exercise is one of the most important factors involved in regulating bone mass, it will improve bone strength and endurance, which is continuously subjected microtrauma. It also encourages organic synthesis in bone mineral deposition and bone architecture more resilient.