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

“Youth is wasted on the young.” Ever heard that? Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries supposes that there is a bit of truth in that for all of us - and particularly our Manchester spines - as we age. When we are young, our bodies need8 our attention more than we realize. Our young bones and spines and bodies require good nutrition so that our older bones and spine and bodies are fit when we desire living our lives less painfully and more fully. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries reveals what Manchester 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

Optimizing peak bone mass early in life may drop osteoporosis risk later in life. A new 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 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) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries cannot emphasize 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 people that results 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 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 daily. Even more problematic is that teen girls’ daily intake of calcium is way lower than what it should be. Enhancing bone mass by only 5% reduces the risk of fracture by 40%. (3) Getting healthy bones is subject to more than just calcium and vitamin D however. Deficiencies of vitamins B, C, E, and K as well as retinol disrupt bone’s health. (4) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries presents these stats to inspire us all to increase intake of nutrients to build bone mass early and support it later to keep it healthy.

IMPROVE ABSORPTION OF NUTRIENTS

Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries knows that kids and their families want to be sure that their nutritional efforts will be of value. TIP: Dietary fiber may raise 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 thought that fiber would have anything to do with bone mineral density? Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries thinks that many of our Manchester chiropractic patients would not have!

FIBER’S DEFENSE OF MEN’S BMD

Luckily, there are some very observant researchers and doctors around! They discovered that fiber intake was a protective factor of lumbar spine BMD in men aged 18 and 45 years of age but not in females. In men over 65 years, nutrient intake showed no effect on BMD. In women between 18 and 45, fiber didn’t show a significant change to BMD, but daily fat intake significantly enhanced BMD. (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 recent study debunked that thought. (7) However, there is evidence in the medical literature that emphasizes the overall value of nutrition - and now fiber intake in men - on the well-being of the body, its bones and its spine.

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Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries shares research about benefit of fiber for nutrient absorption and osteoporosis prevention/bone mineral density improvement. 
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