Baton Rouge Back Pain Sufferers May Benefit from Fiber to Improve Nutrient Absorption
“Youth is wasted on the young.” Ever heard that? Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers supposes that there’s a bit of truth in that for all of us - and particularly our Baton Rouge spines - as we age. When we’re young, our bodies need8 our attention more than we realize. Our youthful 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. Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers reveals what Baton Rouge chiropractic patients can do now to deal with bone mineral density (BMD) issues, regardless of their current age.
BMD AND OSTEOPOROSIS: BUILD BMD WHILE YOUNG
Elevating peak bone mass early in life may decrease osteoporosis risk later in life. A recent 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 leading factors were body weight at adolescence and young adulthood which positively affected BMD. (1) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers can’t emphasize enough just how important nutrition is for their future well-being.
BENEFITS OF IMPROVED NUTRITION BEYOND BETTER BONE MINERAL DENSITY
Osteoporosis is a disease of older folks that stems from youthful (in)attention. Low serum levels of vitamin D in osteoporotic women tend to have an increased chance of having any type 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 only 5% cuts the risk of fracture by 40%. (3) Attaining healthy bones depends on 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) Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers presents these findings 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
Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers understands that kids and their families want to be sure that their nutritional efforts will be of value. TIP: Dietary fiber may boost the body’s absorption of calcium but does it differently 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 improvements did not relate to 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? Medical Spine and Sports Injury and Rehab Centers bets that many of our Baton Rouge chiropractic patients would not have!
FIBER’S DEFENSE OF MEN’S BMD
Luckily, some most perceptive 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 females. In men over 65 years, nutrient intake indicated no effect on BMD. In women between 18 and 45, fiber didn’t show a significant change to BMD, but daily fat intake significantly increased BMD. (6) A curious side note: A new study refutes the thought that BMD may be a risk factor for lumbar disc herniation in youth, but a recent study discredited 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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