Vitamin D

Dieting? Eat protein-rich foods to protect bones

Taking a diet rich in proteins, especially dairy products, may help protect bones during weight loss, findings of a new research suggest.

Obese and overweight women who try to shed extra pounds through dieting often end up with brittle bones.

High-dose vitamin D beneficial for obese kids

Administering a high daily dose of vitamin D can help combat its deficiency in overweight and obese adolescents, cutting the risk of associated conditions like depression, back pain, cancer, insulin resistance and pre-eclampsia during pregnancy, fading immunity and muscular degeneration, findings of a new study suggest.

Vitamin D deficiency is quite common in overweight and obese adolescents.

Encourage calcium intake from infancy

Encountering bone related disorders with age largely depends upon the calcium intake during growing years of life. Among all, women after reaching menopause are more prone to osteoporosis.

Although in past years, it was thought that bones once formed don’t change their architecture but recent research studies disproved this myth too.

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