‘Eating fruits, veggies, fish may reduce bone loss in women’

WASHINGTON: Ladies, take note! Regular intake of anti-inflammatory diets - high in vegetables, fruits, fish and whole grains - may boost your bone health and prevent fractures, a first-of-its-kind study has claimed. Researchers at Ohio State University in the US compared levels of inflammatory elements in the diet to bone mineral density and fractures and found new associations between food and bone health.

Women with the least-inflammatory diets lost less bone density during the sixyear follow-up period than their peers with the most-inflammatory diets.

This was despite the fact that they started off with lower bone density overall.

Diets with low inflammatory potential appeared to correspond to lower risk of hip fracture among one subgroup of the studyof the post-menopausal white women who are below the age of 63 years.

The findings also suggest that women’s bone health could benefit when they choose a diet that is higher in beneficial fats, plants and also rich with whole grains, said Tonya Orchard, assistant professor at The Ohio State University. “This suggests that as per the women age, healthy diets are impacting their bones and it should be taken good care of,” Orchard said. Because the study was observational, it is not possible to definitively link the dietary patterns and the bone health and fracture outcomes that may or may not occur in the body.

Rebecca Jackson from Ohio State said the new findings support a growing body of evidence that factors which increase inflammation can increase the osteoporosis risk in body.