Vitamin C Found To Prevent Bone Loss In Animal Models
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have shown for the first time in an animal model that vitamin C actively protects against osteoporosis, a disease affecting large numbers of elderly women and men in which bones become brittle and can fracture. The findings are published in the October 8 online edition of PLoS ONE…
October 12, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: actively-protects, animal-model, become-brittle, bones / orthopedics, elderly-women, esearchers-at-mount, first-time, large-numbers, medicine, mount, mount-sinai, oncalldiets
Elderly Women Benefit From Vitamin D
Giving vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) to predominantly elderly women, mainly in institutional care, seems to increase survival. These women are likely to be vitamin D deficient with a significant risk of falls and fractures. This is the key conclusion in a systematic review published in the latest edition of The Cochrane Library…
July 6, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cochrane, elderly-women, latest, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, systematic-review, the-key, the-latest
