The skeleton

The skeleton is needed to give our body strength. It keeps us straight and forms it.
In some places your skeleton is stronger than in others. Think about your rib cage, skull ...
This means that the skeleton also has a protective function: it protects your most vital organs, like your heart and your brain.



The skeleton consist mainly of calcium. Every day we have to absorb enough calcium to keep an healthy skeleton.

The most important part of our skeleton is the backbone. She protects the spinal column, which is the highway from our brain to our nerves and vice versa. If the nerves in our spinal column don't work properly, we become paralysed in the part the nerve goes to.