Menopause - The Secret Way to Prevent Post Menopause Osteoporosis

Menopause women haven't realized an inconvenient true: Women take more calcium supplements and Vitamin D fortified milk than ever before, yet women's bone mass is weaker instead of stronger. Every year, over a million osteoporosis-related bone fractures occur in USA.
However, experts warned women too much about the danger of exposure to the sun for skin cancer and skin aging. It may be true during summer time or southern area. In general, most of women have not got enough sunlight to help the body produce enough vitamin D to keep bone health.
The body needs vitamin D to help calcium absorption, so most of milk products on super markets are fortified by Vitamin D, but milk is not a good source to get it. Why? 1. Vitamin D can hardly survive the pasteurized process. 2. Vitamin D can't dissolve in skim milk because it is fat soluble.
How about other vitamin D supplements? Vitamin D intake in your diet correlates poorly with the amount of vitamin D in your blood, and you may need take in toxic levels of vitamin D from supplement in order to get the amount of benefits you body needs.
So the body absorbs poorly on both vitamin D and calcium supplements.
What is the best way for our bone health?
The bad news is that our body absorbs poorly on both vitamin D and calcium supplements. The good news is that our bodies can produce vitamin D by exposing to sunlight. A fifteen minute full-body exposure can produce the amount of Vitamin D as a 10,000 IU pill.
The vitamin D that you body produces on its own is much more effective to help absorb calcium than any supplements, since Vitamin D is a hormone which is an action messenger. Vitamin D supplements are foreigners to your body and may send wrong messages and cause toxic. The body has the wisdom to produce the right amount and right type of vitamin D for itself.
Women post menopause may lose up to 3-4 percent of their bone mass every winter in northern areas, so winter time is the critical time to get sunlight for most women who don't live in southern area.