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Toronto Back Pain Sufferers May Benefit from Fiber to Improve Nutrient Absorption

“Youth is wasted on the young.” Have you heard that saying? Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre supposes that there is a bit of truth in that for all of us - and particularly our Toronto spines - as we age. When we’re young, our bodies need8 our attention more than we gave. 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. Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre shares what Toronto chiropractic patients can do now to tackle 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 reduce osteoporosis risk later in life. A new study 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 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) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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 results 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 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 problematic is that teen girls’ daily intake of calcium is far lower than what it should be. Enhancing bone mass by only 5% drops the risk of fracture by 40%. (3) Getting 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 the health of bone. (4) Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre 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

Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre understands 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 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 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? Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre bets that many of our Toronto chiropractic patients would not have!

FIBER’S DEFENSE OF MEN’S BMD

Luckily, some most alert 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 women. In men over 65 years, nutrient intake showed no effect on BMD. In women between 18 and 45, fiber did not produce a significant change to BMD, but daily fat intake significantly enhanced 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 recent 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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Yorkville Chiropractic and Wellness Centre shares research about benefit of fiber for nutrient absorption and osteoporosis prevention/bone mineral density improvement. 
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