Murfreesboro Back Pain Sufferers May Benefit from Fiber to Improve Nutrient Absorption
“Youth is wasted on the young.” Have you heard that saying? Most Chiropractic Clinic supposes that there is a bit of truth in that for all of us - and especially our Murfreesboro 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 in good shape when we want to live our lives less painfully and more fully. Most Chiropractic Clinic reveals what Murfreesboro chiropractic patients can do now to address bone mineral density (BMD) issues, regardless of 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 recent study 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 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 affected BMD. (1) Most Chiropractic Clinic can’t stress 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 folks that results from youthful (in)attention. Low serum levels of vitamin D in osteoporotic women tend to have an increased 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 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 way lower than what it should be. Boosting 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 bone’s health. (4) Most Chiropractic Clinic shares these statistics to encourage us all to boost intake of nutrients to build bone mass initially and support it later to keep it healthy.
IMPROVE ABSORPTION OF NUTRIENTS
Most Chiropractic Clinic knows that kids and their families want to be sure that their nutritional efforts will pay off. TIP: Dietary fiber may boost the body’s absorption of calcium but does it differently for older men and women. Greater 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 improvements 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? Most Chiropractic Clinic thinks that many of our Murfreesboro chiropractic patients wouldn’t have!
FIBER’S DEFENSE OF MEN’S BMD
Luckily, some very observant doctors and researchers did observe that fiber intake was a protective factor of lumbar spine BMD in men aged 18 and 45 years old but not in women. 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 did significantly. (6) An interesting side note: It had been thought that bone mineral density could be a risk factor for lumbar disc herniation in young persons, but a new study debunked that idea. (7) However, there is evidence in the medical literature that stresses 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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