Chicago, United States (CNN) - The American Academy of Pediatrics announced that the American doctors evaluate children for the amount of calcium they consume, and encourage them to exercise to help them avoid bone fractures at a later stage of their lives.
The academy said in a report published Monday in a specialized journal Pediatrics that the national data show that most American children over the age of eight years, do not consume adequate amounts of calcium, which may expose them to infection osteoporosis at maturity.
And osteoporosis affects approximately ten million people in the United States, including eight millions of women according to the reports of the fragility of bones national organization, according to The Associated Press.
The doctor says Craig me LANGMAN, which handles fractures in children in a specialized hospital in Chicago, there is evidence that suggests that bone fractures are increasing among American teenagers, perhaps because of a lack of calcium in the food they eat and the lack of exercise that weaken bones.
The bones need calcium to grow as the exercise develops the bone, and favorite sports included in the child or young football, jogging, basketball program.
And see the doctor Frank Grier, who participated in the writing of the report that the cause of malnutrition among American children is eating soft drinks instead of milk or juice saturated with calcium, as they spend long hours in front of TV and computer instead of movement and play.
The report calls for pediatricians to conduct periodic checks of the level of calcium and bones in young people, between the ages of two to three years, and between eight and nine years, and finally at puberty or adolescence.
The process of assessing children include asking simple questions about diet and followed the pattern of food, and the amount of milk consumed and the level of exercise and fractures and family history about osteoporosis, according to a report.
It is noteworthy that many American children have a disease arising from a lack of vitamin "D" because they do not drink enough milk fortified with this vitamin, which helps the body absorb calcium.
The health authorities recommended in 2003 vitamin "D" in the introduction of baby foods for infants and those at risk of malnutrition.
Many young Americans have a deficiency in vitamin "D" because of the lack of fortified milk intake of this vitamin, and that they are not enough to sunlight required for the body to produce vitamin.
Doctors recommend exposing children between 10 and 15 minutes per week to the sun, which is enough time for the production of vitamin "d.