colorful diet a secret
to stronger bones
M
ounting evidence
increasingly sug-
gests that a diet rich in
fruits and vegetables
can help keep bones
strong, especially as
people age. The latest
comes in a Framingham
Osteoporosis Study, led
by the USDA Human
Nutrition Research
Center on Aging at Tufts
University. Collaborat-
ing researchers, track-
ing changes in bone
mineral density of more than 600 male and female volunteers
with an average age of 75, found that those eating a diet rich
in fruit and vegetables had healthier bones.
The researchers attribute these benefits to several nu-
trients found in plant foods, especially carotenoids, such as
carotene, lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthene. These plant
pigments give fruits and vegetables their yellow, orange and
red colors. It appears that carotenoids also protect bones
from mineral loss through mineral resorption into the blood
stream, a metabolic process that weakens bones.
Source: USDA Agricultural Research Service; published in
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
not only are black raspberries
packed with vitamins, minerals
and cancer-fighting phenols and
phytosterols, but freeze-drying
them concentrates these com-
pounds, increasing the berries’
cancer-fighting properties ten-
fold.
Source: Ohio State University, 2008
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Stick with the good stuff.
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Source: American Thoracic Society, 2008

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