Calcium — My Health

Healthy Bones Throughout Life

BONE BRITTLENESS because of osteoporosis often causes cracked or broken hips.

Eat, drink and play joyfully to build bones. This is time to be happy.

You are cheerful, young and enjoy doing what you do every day.

Go on! It is good for your bone! Every time you go out dancing, running, shopping or playing football, you actually are building your bone.

Read more on 'Healthy Bones Throughout Life'.

26-02-2011 by Drali @mesrahealth

category: Osteoporosis

Prevent Osteoporosis – Calcium Prevents the Brittleness of Bone

Drinking milk daily helps to prevent osteoporosis.

Calcium is the mineral that is required for teeth, muscle, nerve and also bone health. Adequate calcium intake helps to prevent osteoporosis, the thinning and the brittleness of bone problem.

Though osteoporosis is more significant among elderly women, yet men are not exempted, though they are in lesser percentage.

30-08-2008 by Drali @mesrahealth

category: Dietary - Nutrition, Osteoporosis

Nutrition To Reduce The Risk of Osteoporosis

Practice the following nutrients intake to reduce the osteoporosis risk:

Calcium
Every individual with osteoporosis needs from 1,200 to 1,500 milligram of calcium daily through nutrition or health supplement. Body only absorbs about 500 milligram of calcium at a singles time. Therefore, calcium intake should be done some time daily. Some researches also show too much calcium intake will cause bad effect to the bone density. Apart from dairy-products, legume and vegetables are also a source of food rich with calcium. Beside acidification, too much caffeine intake also said to cause calcium dissolution in bone.

16-01-2008 by Drali @mesrahealth

category: Dietary - Nutrition, Osteoporosis

Factors Which Increase the Risk of Osteoporosis

Here are the factors which increase the risk of getting osteoporosis:

PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES which use optimum level of energy, e.g.: marathon athlete.
LACK OF EXERCISE AND CALCIUM DIET, the body will maintain bone density by following the individual physical activity. For those who exercise less, the body will not maintain high bone density although with adequate nutrient. Several researches showed that light exercise as aerobics, light weight lifting and resilience sport can keep or increase the bone mineral density (BMD) for menopause woman.

by Drali @mesrahealth

category: Osteoporosis

The Effect Of Extreme Sports Activities to Bone Health

Sports are good for health. Besides of having good balance of diets, physical activities may also help our body balance between the body’s usage and the storage of energy. However, robust sports or the one which requires a lot of energies may also have negative impact to the body.

14-01-2008 by Drali @mesrahealth

category: Osteoporosis, Women's Health