World Health Organization (WHO) defines natural menopause as at least 12 consecutive
months of amenorrhea not due to physiologic and pathologic causes. Statistics show that the …

Bone remodeling in the adult skeleton facilitates the removal and replacement of damaged
and old bone to maintain bone quality. Tight coordination of bone resorption and bone …

Despite its contribution to nutrient intake and status, consumption of milk and dairy products
by children and adolescents in many countries has waned in recent decades, with a …

Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), the most abundant growth factor in the bone matrix,
maintains bone mass in adulthood. We now report that IGF-1 released from the bone matrix …

Physical inactivity is an accepted antecedent to the development of childhood obesity and is
implicated in numerous chronic conditions including poor cardiovascular and metabolic …

Peak bone mass (PBM) is a key determinant of bone mass and fragility fractures later in life.
The increase in bone mass during childhood and adolescence is mainly related to an …

Pubertal maturation plays a fundamental role in bone acquisition. In retrospective
epidemiological surveys in pre-and postmenopausal women, relatively later menarcheal …

With an increasingly ageing population, osteoporosis and osteoporosis-related fractures is
fast becoming an important public health problem placing a considerable economic burden …

Osteoporosis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in contemporary populations.
This common disease of aging results from a state of bone fragility that occurs with low bone …

Dietary proteins are found in animal products, plant products and single-cell organisms.
Proteins are present in variable proportions in these different food sources and the different …