Milk, Dairy Products and Osteoporosis

Since the first precaution to follow to reduce the possibility of incurring bone rarefaction or osteoporosis is to guarantee a correct bone metabolism, at the basis of which there must be a sufficient availability of calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D, it goes without saying that the presence or not of milk and dairy products in the diet has a "far from negligible" importance.

Obviously, increasing the calcium intake from milk and dairy products is not enough to prevent osteoporosis. Let's start by defining the pathology of osteoporosis.