Wow. This article is a great outlet that can be used to discover what osteoporosis is, how to prevent it, and if your genetically at risk for getting osteoporosis. Within this article it also defines osteoporosis as a skeletal disease that is associated with low bone mass and microarchitechural breakdown of bone tissue. Resulting in increase chance of bone fracture and overall decrease in bone strength. I appreciated this article because it showed the real issue of osteoporosis in our population. One statistic I found within the article that supports the concept concerning the number of individuals suffering from osteoporosis is stated below: “ After age 50, 1 in 2 women and 1 in 4 men will have a osteoporosis-related fracture”. The actual fracture that they are talking about in this article is caused from too much stress on aging weak bones.
Genetics play a huge role in determining if an individual maybe at higher risk of developing osteoporosis later in life. The article stated that genetics play up to 80% of determining an individuals peak bone mass. However, we can predict the outcome of the other 20% by choosing a healthier lifestyle. A healthier lifestyle would include no smoking, a good diet, exercise daily, and limit alcohol consumption. Also everyone needs to make sure they are meeting the recommended calcium intakes either through food or through calcium supplements. Calcium supplements where also discussed in this article and it said, “ one positive aspect of calcium supplements is that it reduces bone remodeling.
The top 5 important reason why we need to meet the recommended calcium intakes I found in this article are stated below:
1.Calcium is required for normal growth and development of the skeleton.
2.Adequate intakes of calcium is needed to meet optimal peak bone mass.
3.Calcium intakes are closely related to affecting the rate of bone loss while an individual is aging.
4.Calcium is important in the bodies fluid due to its effects on binding proteins, metabolic functions, and operating as a signal transmitter
5.Lastly, calcium is essential in the contraction and re-contraction of muscles
I though this was important to highlight as it ultimately explains to my blog readers why once again calcium is essential to our bodies.
This Article also did a great job explaining other key components that are essential in the prevention of osteoporosis and the promotion of healthy bones. These key components are Vitamin D, protein, Magnesium, and phosphorus. Vitamin D is vital to bone development and maintenance of bone, because vitamin D can reduce risk of osteoporosis and bone fracture in older people. Protein was discussed in this article to play a major role in repairing muscle and bone. It is also essential component in bone tissue. More than 60% of the bodies’ magnesium is stored in the bones. Magnesium is important to the bones because it decreases the hydroapatite crystal size. The decrease in the crystal size will result in the prevention of brittle bones.
Overall, I really like this article it was informative and proved actual studies based on our population. If you take the time to read this article make sure to check out all the graphs, because I found them very helpful.
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This is not suprising considering the amount of America's population that are baby boomers coming from generation of excessive drinking and smoking. And depression area where healthy diet was hard to come by.
I think we have had to read a few articles about how research is being done to analyze what happens where there too high a protein intake.
Increasing the acidity and therefore counter balancing other vitamin effects on the body liek Vitamin D make sense.
say an older women has just broke a bone and is worried about osteoporosis, they get plenty of walking in everyday and they take calcium and vitamin D supplements, is there anything else they can do to help? also can you make your bones stronger and denser at that age?
ReplyDeleteAs far as i know you cannot make your bones denser as you age. The only time for preventing the onset of osteoporosis is before you hit the peak bone mass. Once you began aging after you reach that peak bone mass you can only try to decrease the loss of mass that is inevitable. So if in fact a older women was trying to prevent or rather delay the onset of osteoporosis, i would applaud her for what is already doing. Also i would encourage her to continue what she is doing. I would possible be recommend trying to eat more calcium rich foods like kale. Great question, thanks tristan :)
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