Key nutrients for bone strength
Several essential nutrients work together to maintain strong and healthy and harder bones. While nutrients such as calcium and vitamin D are termed essential to build and maintain strong bones, other nutrients are equally important to maintaining bone health including protein, vitamin B12, magnesium, vitamin C, among others. Osteoporosis, a disease that weakens and thins bones is a major public health problem in Indian women that makes the bones fragile and prone to breaking.