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Date Posted: 06:47:44 01/23/14 Thu
Author: Dr. Zhivago
Subject: SEX DRUGS, SEX TOOLS; NATURAL MEDICINES, RC MODELS, AIRSOFT GUNS, HOBBY ITEMS, CAR EQUIPMENT

About Brittle Bones or Osteoporosis

By Knut Holt
http://www.abicana.com

By osteoporosis the bones in the body gradually lose minerals, manly clacium and magnesium. That reduces the hard areas in the bones and increases the pores between the hard areas, and the bones get thinner and brittle. At some point this will typically result in high incidence of fractures.

The disease mostly begins after the age of 50 and gradually worsen. Most people will get it to som degree and for some it develops into a serious health problem. Women are generally hit harder than men and the disease tend to be mor common and severe in northern areas than in southern.

Since some people are worse affected thay others under the same living condition, the disease seem to some extent be cause by a genetic factor. Lack of hormons in women after menopuase and to some extent in man as they grow older are also causal factors. Conditions or drugs that reduce the size and function of the sexual glands can after some time lead to brittle bones.

Still, it has been shown that lifstyle factors contribute the most to the causation of the disease. Lack of regular physical activity easily leads to osteoporosis. However, exaggerated endurance training can possibly cause osteoporosis in women.

Another factor is lack of certain vitamins and minerals, especially vitamines D, K, C and the mineral magnesium and phosphorus. An excess of vitamine A together with a lack of other nutrient seems to cause brittle bones. Lack of calcium will of cause cause brittle bones, but most people get enough calcium through diary products. The lack of the other nutrients makes it difficult to integrate the calcium in the bones, though.

Osteoporosis is also associated with some conditions like Over-active thyroid, diabetes. rheumatoid arthritis and eating disorders. It can also be caused by long tierm use of certain drugs, like liyhium, predinisolone and other steroid drugs.

The right lifestyle from early childhood and through puberty and the rest of the life is the best guarantee against osteoporosis, but lifestyle changes at any age give a positive preventing effect. Here are some advices to prevent osteoporosis and hopefully also to remend the bones if you are already suffering.

Do some exercise at least every second day and at least 30 minutes each day. Exercises where you use your muscular strength work best, like weight training, and you must provide all parts of your body gets the training. If you already suffer from osteoporosis, you must of cource adjust the intensity to the state of your bones, but the exercises will strengthen your bones so that you can add intensity gradually.

Get enough vitamine D, which you can achieve by eating fat fish or by a supplement. Letting sun rays get to your skin stimulates your body to make its own vitamin D too.

Get enough of vitamin K. Vitamin K is abundantly found in all green vegetables, but is also found in meat, diary products, whole grain cereals and cold pressed plant oils. Vitamin K is soluble in fat, so your food should contain some oily ingredients to make it easy to absorb. The form of the vitamin found in most sources is K1 which is converted to the effective variant K2 in the intestines by bacteria before taken up. A supplement of vitamin K can give you the needed amount when you do not get enough from other sources. Supplements usually contain the variant K2

Get enough vitamin C. By eating a varity of vegetables and fruits you get enough of this vitamin. If that is not possible, a supplement can help.

Get enough calcium. Most people get enough of that mineral by a varied diet, but some people take up calcium poorly or have condidtions that result in rapid loss of calcium. In that case a supplement can be useful. Supplements containing calcium citrate are concidered better than those containing calcium carbonate.

The same measures that can prevent osteoporosis can alsohelp to alleviate the condition. There are also some new farmaceutical drugs on the market to improve bone density and strenght. In most jursidictions these are so far only approved for women after menopause. There are also concerns that some of these can cause coronary heart disease.

A good nutrition and exercise are the best prevention, and those two things must be combined. I live in Norway. The Norwegian population is perhaps the sickest in the whole western world, iand it has the highest incidence of brittle bones of any western country. Generally the Norwegian population has a poor intake of vitamins and minerals, especially D,C,K and magnesium but high intake of calcium through milk which is not good alone, and this illustrates amply the importance of right nutrition. Norwegians do not exercise much either, in spite of what the rest of the World thinks about that country.

http://www.abicana.com/health_information.htm

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