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Widespread Vitamin Deficiency Linked To Poor Bone Health

By Better Health Research News Desk • Oct 26th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

Why take dietary supplements containing calcium and vitamin D? Besides contributing to proper nerve function and a healthy immune system, these nutrients are an integral part of good bone health.

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Consumption of Vitamin D-Rich Foods Has Fallen Off In Past 30 Years

By Better Health Research News Desk • Sep 29th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

Do you know which foods naturally contain the most vitamin D? Bread or milk may be the first thing that comes to mind, but these foods are typically enriched with the nutrient, rather than naturally containing it. In fact, few foods are organic sources of vitamin D.

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Dried Plums Contribute To Good Bone Health

By Better Health Research News Desk • Aug 26th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

Do you love plums? Are they a part of your daily diet? When they’re not in season, so you eat the dried variety – known as prunes – or take nutritional supplements containing plum extract?

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Birth Control Pills May Reduce Bone Density In Young Women

By Better Health Research News Desk • Jul 29th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

A study appearing in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism announced that females between the ages of 14 and 18 may have slightly lower bone mass densities than their peers if they take birth control pills.

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Ample Vitamin D Levels Needed For Optimal Bone Health

By Better Health Research News Desk • Jul 28th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

Having adequate levels of vitamin D is important at any age, whether you are young, middle-aged or well into the golden years of retirement. Several studies have suggested that only increasing one’s calcium intake late in life does not offer the same level of protection for bone health you get when vitamin D is added, as well.

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Red Wine Substance May Promote Insulin Sensitivity, Bone Health

By Better Health Research News Desk • Jul 18th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

Numerous studies have suggested that drinking an occasional glass of red wine – or taking dietary supplements that contain grape-based phenols – may confer a plenitude of health benefits. Now, those benefits may extend to low Earth orbit.

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Endocrine Society Releases Vitamin D Recommendations

By Better Health Research News Desk • Jul 11th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

Consuming enough vitamin D each day, either through diet or vitamin supplements, is one of the simplest and most important ways to maintain bone, nerve and organ health. After surveying the public health trends in the United States and abroad, the Endocrine Society recently released its recommendations for monitoring and maintaining healthy vitamin D levels among people of all ages.

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Vitamin D Is Linked To Better Respiratory Health

By Better Health Research News Desk • Jun 30th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health Articles, Health News, Thursday Edition

While many individuals take vitamin supplements as part of a holistic health and wellness regimen, researchers at New Zealand’s Waikato Hospital recently reported that having high blood serum levels of vitamin D has been linked to a lower risk of long term health impacts in people with less than optimal lung health. And supporting that finding is a study appearing in the journal Respirology. The study is based on data collected from 112 people with respiratory health concerns.

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Calcium, Vitamin D May Be Effective Initial Treatment For Osteoporosis

By Better Health Research News Desk • Jun 23rd, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

To support one’s bone health, experts suggest taking a dietary supplement containing enough calcium and vitamin D to meet one’s individual needs.  Particularly for aging adults, such a regimen could help ensure maintenance of strong, healthy bones long-term and should not be overlooked.

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Calcium Supplements Should Come Before Medications

By Better Health Research News Desk • May 30th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

The danger of osteoporosis is something that many individuals forget to consider when consuming a daily diet that has little or no calcium or vitamin D in it. Over time, low intake of these nutrients can put individuals at risk for progressive bone loss, and a team of researchers has made a simple suggestion for preventing this condition.

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Crayfish Shells May Contain Highly Absorbable Form Of Calcium

By Better Health Research News Desk • Apr 14th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

Calcium plays an essential role in blood clotting and bone health. Now, researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, have announced that an easily absorbed and retained form of calcium is available from a rather unexpected place—crustacean shells. In an article published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, the team reported finding that amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), a calcium derivative found in nature, may be stable enough to be digested by humans if it has first been absorbed into the exoskeletons of crayfish and other hard-shelled crustaceans.

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Early Parkinson’s Patients Have Low Vitamin D Counts

By Better Health Research News Desk • Mar 23rd, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

A study published in the Archives of Neurology found that between 70 percent of early Parkinson’s patients have a vitamin D insufficiency, which is defined as a level below 30 nanograms of the vitamin per milliliter (ng/mL) of blood.

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Alcoholic Cirrhosis Worsens Vitamin D Deficiency

By Better Health Research News Desk • Mar 16th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

According to a report published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology, 55 percent of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis were vitamin D deficient.

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Vitamin A May Minimize Effects Of Fetal Alcohol Syndromes

By Better Health Research News Desk • Mar 4th, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

Though it is by no means being called a cure, taking vitamin A during pregnancy may be able to reverse some of the effects of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), which are conditions caused by a fetus’s early exposure to alcohol.

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Further Evidence Links Low Levels Of Vitamin D With Hip Fractures

By Better Health Research News Desk • Mar 3rd, 2011 • Category: Bone Strength, Health News

Researchers from New Delhi have found that measuring vitamin D levels among the elderly may be a useful way to assess the risk for these individuals to suffer a hip fracture. While previous studies have shown that vitamin D deficiency has been considered a hip fracture risk, the new investigation unveils that levels of this vitamin are in fact very low for individuals who experience a hip fracture.

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