Bone Health

Bone Up on Bone Health

Bone disease has reached near-epidemic proportions in America. Millions of people are suffering the often-crippling and devastating effects of diseases such as osteoporosis, a condition that results in a "demineralization" of the bone matrix, causing bones to become less dense over time and increasing the risk of fractures, especially of the spine, wrist and hip; and osteopenia (softening of th...

Bone deficit and bone health.

Bone health.

Much evidence indicates that both calcium and vitamin D are efficacious in protecting the skeleton, particularly when these 2 nutrients are used in combination. Each nutrient is necessary for the full expression of the effect of the other, and where their actions are independent, their effects on skeletal health are complementary. Nutrient status for both tends to be deficient in the adult popu...

Bone Health

Mechanical loading is a crucial factor for maintaining skeletal health. Physical activities, exercise, and sports provide a wealth and variety of mechanical loads to bones, through muscle forces, ground reaction forces, and other contact or impact forces. Weightbearing activities can be effective exercises to enhance bone health-particularly, those that involve jumping and impact loads (with gr...

Bone health.

Steven C. Karceski, MD In their article “Bone health in young women with epilepsy after one year of antiepileptic drug monotherapy,” Dr. Alison Pack and her colleagues1 studied how antiseizure medicines affect bones. They followed 93 women for a 1-year period. Because hormones are important for bone health, the authors specifically studied a group of women who had not yet gone through menopause...