15Jan 2018 by Renae Earle
Nutrition for Bone Health

Nutrition for Bone Health

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Without bones, we would be piles of mush on the floor. Sounds dramatic, and the image it conjures is a little graphic, but it’s the truth. Bones offer support and rigidity to our bodies. Our ribs protect our lungs and heart, our spines keep us upright, our skull protects our brain and our arm and leg bones make us functional. You’re probably getting the idea by now- bones are extremely important. By the same logic, it is important to keep them healthy. If you’re interested in keeping all 206 of your bones in good shape, well into old age, read on. Making Your Youth Count It’s a fact that most bone mass is laid down in the first 25-30 years of your life. This mass is carried into old age…
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05Jan 2017 by Aidan Muir
Do Vitamin D Supplements Reduce Your Risk of Fractures?

Do Vitamin D Supplements Reduce Your Risk of Fractures?

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To follow up on my previous post on calcium supplementation, this post will be on the effect that vitamin D supplementation has on fractures risk. The majority of our vitamin D comes from the sun and a small amount comes from our diet. Surprisingly, even though Australia is known for its sunny weather, approximately one-third of Australians are deficient in vitamin D. With the knowledge that vitamin D increases the effect of calcium, it is common sense to assume that it would reduce the risk of fractures. To make the assumption even stronger, vitamin D supplementation also leads to an increase in bone mineral density. Although in theory vitamin D supplementation should reduce fractures risk, after going through every study in the past 20 years on the subject, the conclusion I…
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18Dec 2016 by Aidan Muir
Do Calcium Supplements Reduce the Risk of Fractures?

Do Calcium Supplements Reduce the Risk of Fractures?

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Recently I asked myself a question about whether there were any topics of nutrition that I could write about that very few people in the nutrition world were already providing. The conclusion that I came to was the findings of my systematic review that I did in my final year at university, on the topic of whether calcium and vitamin D supplements reduce the risk of fractures in people above fifty years of age. I chose this subject because there had been no clear answer in the research, so I figured that it’s something that I could share that nobody else could. It never made sense to me why there was no clear result in the research. Calcium has always been strongly linked to increases or maintenance of bone mineral…
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