Tonawanda Back Pain Sufferers May Benefit from Fiber to Improve Nutrient Absorption
“Youth is wasted on the young.” Ever heard that? Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation supposes that there is a bit of truth in that for all of us - and especially our Tonawanda spines - as we age. When we’re young, our bodies require our attention more than we gave. Our young bones and spines and bodies require good nutrition so that our older bones and spine and bodies are in good shape when we want to live our lives less painfully and more fully. Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation shares what Tonawanda chiropractic patients can do now to tackle bone mineral density (BMD) issues, no matter their current age.
BMD AND OSTEOPOROSIS: BUILD BMD WHILE YOUNG
Elevating peak bone mass early in life may drop osteoporosis risk later in life. A new report wrote 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 affected 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) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation cannot stress enough just how vital nutrition is for their future well-being.
BENEFITS OF IMPROVED NUTRITION BEYOND BETTER BONE MINERAL DENSITY
Osteoporosis is a disease of older people that stems from youthful (in)attention. Low serum levels of vitamin D in osteoporotic women have a tendency 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 decrease the risk of osteoporosis later in life. Teen girls absorb calcium more effectively: 326mg in teenage girls versus just 73mg in older women of 1332 mg taken a day. Even more problematic is that teen girls’ daily intake of calcium is far lower than what it should be. Enhancing bone mass by just 5% drops 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 compromise bone’s health. (4) Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation shares these statistics 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
Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation knows that kids and their families want to be sure that their nutritional efforts will be of value. 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 associate with bone loss in either men or women. Higher dietary fiber may decrease bone loss in men. (5) Who would have imagined that fiber would have anything to do with bone mineral density? Chiropractic Spine Sports And Rehabilitation thinks that many of our Tonawanda chiropractic patients wouldn’t have!
FIBER’S DEFENSE OF MEN’S BMD
Fortunately, some most observant doctors and researchers did observe that fiber intake was a protective factor of lumbar spine BMD in men 18-45 years of old but not in females. In men over 65 years, nutrient intake showed no effect on BMD. In women between 18 and 45, fiber didn’t produce a significant effect on BMDs, but daily fat intake significantly increased BMD. (6) A curious side note: It had been thought that bone mineral density may be a risk factor for lumbar disc herniation in young persons, but a new study debunked that thought. (7) However, medical literature points out that the general benefit of nutrition - and now fiber intake in men - on the well-being of the body, its bones and its spine.
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