Thursday, January 10, 2013

Doctors Health Press Reports on Study: Carrots Even Healthier for Men

By Yoshi Naruse


Long Beach, CA;Chicago, IL;Houston, TX (PRWEB) 28 of December, -- Doctors Health Press, a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation and writer of various essential health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is reporting on a study that has found that eating carrots is even healthier than previously believed. According to the works findings, carotenoids, the pigments in fruit and vegetables that create them colorful, can help protect older men from hip fractures.

As Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin (http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/food-and-nutrition-articles/avoid-hip-fractures-with-this-nutrient) notes, the news was revealed at a major osteoporosis conference in Singapore, and came from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, which took a look at more than 63,000 adults over the age of 45 to investigate the chance of a link between carotenoids and hip fracture risk. The companions suffered 1,630 hip fractures between 1993 and 2010.

As the article Avoid Hip Fractures with this Nutrient reports, the men in the study who consumed the largest amount of total vegetables and total carotenoids had the largest safety from hip fractures, which are many times brought on by reduced ability of bones and osteoporosis. The best known carotenoid is the beta-carotene, the orange pigment in carrots and other bright veggies. For women, vegetables and carotenoids have not protect hip bones from fracture.

The Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin article adds that a pleasant rule of thumb for carotenoids is that the more yellow and orange produce a person eats, the more of these potent antioxidants they will ingest. Carotenoids are reformed by the body into vitamin A.

The article finishes that the study shows that getting carotenoids through the diet is linked to fracture protection for men, but more studies will be needed to observe if supplementing carotenoids can do the same.

(SOURCE: Dai, Z., et al., OC12 Dietary carotenoids reduced hip fracture risk in lean men: the Singapore Chinese Health Study, Osteoporos. Int. 2012; 23(7).)

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