Plainville Back Pain Sufferers May Benefit from Fiber to Improve Nutrient Absorption
“Youth is wasted on the young.” Ever heard that? Layden Chiropractic supposes that there is a bit of truth in that for all of us - and particularly our Plainville spines - as we age. When we’re young, our bodies need8 our attention more than we gave. Our young bones and spines and bodies need proper nutrition so that our older bones and spine and bodies are healthy when we desire living our lives less painfully and more fully. Layden Chiropractic reveals what Plainville chiropractic patients can do now to address 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 reduce osteoporosis risk later in life. A recent 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 influenced BMD in the lumbar spine at young adulthood. Other leading factors were body weight at adolescence and young adulthood which positively affected BMD. (1) Layden Chiropractic can’t stress enough just how vital nutrition is for their future health.
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 increased chance of having any type of cancer and breast cancer. (2) Calcium intake during the teen years of life is vital to decrease 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 daily. Even more problematic is that teen girls’ daily intake of calcium is way below what it should be. Enhancing bone mass by just 5% cuts the risk of fracture by 40%. (3) Achieving healthy bones depends on 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) Layden Chiropractic presents these stats to encourage us all to boost intake of nutrients to build bone mass early and support it later to keep it healthy.
IMPROVE ABSORPTION OF NUTRIENTS
Layden Chiropractic knows that kids and their families want to be sure that their nutritional efforts will pay off. TIP: Dietary fiber may increase the body’s absorption of calcium but does it in different ways 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 didn’t relate to bone loss in either men or women. Higher dietary fiber may reduce bone loss in men. (5) Who would have thought that fiber would have anything to do with bone mineral density? Layden Chiropractic supposes that many of our Plainville chiropractic patients would not have!
FIBER’S DEFENSE OF MEN’S BMD
Fortunately, some most perceptive doctors and researchers did notice that fiber intake was a protective factor of lumbar spine BMD in men aged 18 and 45 years of age 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) A curious side note: Some thought that bone mineral density may be a risk factor for lumbar disc herniation in young persons, but a recent study debunked that idea. (7) However, medical literature points out that the general benefit of nutrition - and now fiber intake in men - on the health of the body, its bones and its spine.
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