You can also help by encouraging your child to drink milk at both at home and at school, and discussing with them the importance of calcium in the diet. Children of parents who reinforce good nutritional habits at home are more likely to make good nutritional choices while away. Calcium is necessary to make up bone and tooth structure. Without calcium in our diet, our bones become brittle and porous and will eventually break. This silent process can take place over a lifetime and goes unnoticed until it is too late.
Females are much more susceptible to bone loss, but males are also at risk.