Osteoporosis generally suffered by old age. However, children who rarely drink milk can also be at risk of getting osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis does not manifest the symptoms of physical signs. As a result, many people who do not know whether he had osteoporosis. But some medical said, to avoid the osteoporosis disease can be done by way of consuming milk early on.

“Children are not drink milk from a young age can be at risk of getting the disease osteoporosis in the elderly,” said Dr. Hafiz Nafi’uddin, SpOT, a specialist Surgeon Bones, as quoted from okezone.com.

In addition, Doctor Hafiz adds, implement drink milk at the age of child in Indonesia is still relatively low. It resulted in a high number of osteoporosis sufferers in Indonesia compared to Southeast Asian countries.

“Milk consumption in children is still very low compared to the another country. This heightens the number incidence of osteoporosis decades ahead,” he lid.