An educational video on how to improve your bone health through Nutrition and lifestyle.
Bones play many roles in the body such as providing structure, protecting organs, anchoring muscles and storing calcium and phosphorus, which help keep our bones strong, and release them into the body when we need them for other uses.
Nutrition and lifestyle habits can help you build strong bones and maintain them as you age.
Calcium is a major building-block of bone.
Vitamin D plays a key role in assisting calcium absorption from food, ensuring the correct renewal and mineralization of bone tissue, and promoting a healthy immune system and muscles.
Sources: exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet B rays and food sources as mentioned in the video
An array of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and alkaline salts, some or all of which can have a beneficial effect on bone.
Vitamin K is required for the correct mineralization of bone.
Sources: leafy green vegetables such as lettuce, spinach and cabbage, liver and some fermented cheeses and soyabean products.
Magnesium plays an important role in forming bone minerals.
Sources: green vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, unrefined grains, and fish.
Zinc is required for bone tissue renewal and mineralization.
Sources: Lean red meat and meat products, poultry, whole grain cereals, pulses and legumes abundantly provide zinc.
Vitamins B6 and B12, as well as folic acid might play a protective role in osteoporosis.
