Largo Back Pain Sufferers May Benefit from Fiber to Improve Nutrient Absorption
“Youth is wasted on the young.” Have you heard that saying? Hollstrom & Associates Inc supposes that there’s a little truth in that for all of us - and especially our Largo spines - as we age. When we’re young, our bodies need8 our attention more than we realize. Our young bones and spines and bodies need good nutrition so that our older bones and spine and bodies are healthy when we want to live our lives less painfully and more fully. Hollstrom & Associates Inc shares what Largo chiropractic patients can do now to address bone mineral density (BMD) issues, no matter their current age.
BMD AND OSTEOPOROSIS: BUILD BMD WHILE YOUNG
Optimizing peak bone mass early in life may drop osteoporosis risk later in life. A new report stated that Vitamin D and calcium in females positively affected bone mineral density into young adulthood. Intakes of phosphorous and the calcium:phosphorous ratio at adolescence for females negatively influenced BMD in young adulthood. Calcium intake in adolescent males strongly negatively affected BMD in the lumbar spine at young adulthood. Other influential factors were body weight at adolescence and young adulthood which positively influenced BMD. (1) Hollstrom & Associates Inc can’t emphasize enough just how important nutrition is for their future health.
BENEFITS OF IMPROVED NUTRITION BEYOND BETTER BONE MINERAL DENSITY
Osteoporosis is a disease of older people that results from youthful (in)attention. Low serum levels of vitamin D in osteoporotic women tend to have an heightened chance of having any kind of cancer and breast cancer. (2) Calcium intake during the teen years of life is important to reduce the risk of osteoporosis later in life. Teen girls absorb calcium better: 326mg in teenage girls versus just 73mg in older women of 1332 mg taken a day. Even more concerning is that teen girls’ daily consumption of calcium is far lower than what it should be. Increasing bone mass by just 5% reduces the risk of fracture by 40%. (3) Attaining healthy bones is subject to more than just calcium and vitamin D though. Deficiencies of vitamins B, C, E, and K as well as retinol disrupt the health of bone. (4) Hollstrom & Associates Inc presents these stats to encourage us all to increase intake of nutrients to build bone mass initially and support it later to keep it healthy.
IMPROVE ABSORPTION OF NUTRIENTS
Hollstrom & Associates Inc knows that kids and their families want to be sure that their nutritional efforts will pay off. TIP: Dietary fiber may raise the body’s absorption of calcium but does it in different ways for older men and women. Higher intake of dietary fiber and fruit fiber was protective against bone loss in men but not women. Fiber from vegetables was protective against spine bone loss in women but not men. Cereal fiber or nut and legume fiber increases did not relate to bone loss in either men or women. Higher dietary fiber may reduce bone loss in men. (5) Who would have imagined that fiber would have anything to do with bone mineral density? Hollstrom & Associates Inc supposes that many of our Largo chiropractic patients wouldn’t have!
FIBER’S DEFENSE OF MEN’S BMD
Luckily, there are some very alert researchers and doctors around! They found that fiber intake was a protective factor of lumbar spine BMD in men 18-45 years of age but not in females. In men over 65 years, nutrient intake indicated no effect on BMD. In women between 18 and 45, fiber did not produce a significant change to BMD, but daily fat intake significantly increased BMD. (6) An interesting side note: A new study discredits the thought that BMD may be a risk factor for lumbar disc herniation in youth, but a recent study debunked that thought. (7) However, there is evidence in the medical literature that emphasizes the overall value of nutrition - and now fiber intake in men - on the health of the body, its bones and its spine.
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