Its calcium content may also help to prevent osteoporosis.
Lack of vitamin D makes development of the bone disease osteoporosis more likely.
With growing concern about adult osteoporosis, it is important to realize that the mass of skeleton built during childhood and into early adulthood constitutes bone banked against inevitable later withdrawals.
I also have mild osteoporosis and mild cerebral palsy.
Girls and women with Turner syndrome should be treated with estrogen/progesterone to maintain their secondary sexual development and to protect their bones from osteoporosis until at the least the usual age of menopause (50 years).