Physical Activity Number One, These Are Various Ways to Prevent Osteoporosis

Ade also advised someone to be exposed to the sun every day. “Good morning, good afternoon, safe, 10 to 20 minutes.”

“There are many others, don’t drink alcohol, don’t smoke,” added Ade.

In his remarks for the same event, Fiastuti Witjaksono, clinical nutrition specialist and Chairperson of the Indonesian Osteoporosis Association said that some risk factors for osteoporosis can actually be prevented.

Some of these risk factors include poor diet, lack of calcium and vitamin D, excessive consumption of foods and drinks such as salt, soda or coffee, and lack of physical activity.

“Eating well, enough calcium, enough vitamin D, exposure to sunlight, physical activity, avoiding smoking, alcohol, coffee, must be done from a very young age, so that we can get strong bones and healthy bones,” said Fiastuti.

“So that at the ages of young adults or the age of menopause, there is no bone fragility which can result in or have an effect on fractures,” he concluded.

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