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Experts remind people to pay attention to bone mineral density screening after 40 years old. How to prevent osteoporosis?

On the World Osteoporosis Day just past, some experts pointed out that the prevalence rate of osteoporosis among people over 60 years old in China is about 36%. Remind people over the age of 40 to pay attention to bone mineral density detection and screening and actively prevent osteoporosis. So what can we do in our daily life to better prevent it?

Calcium is an essential nutrient for human body, which can not only maintain the health of bones and teeth, but also prevent osteoporosis and skeletal deformity. It is also important to maintain the normal activities of nervous system and muscles, which is helpful to maintain normal heart rate and normal coagulation mechanism. Once osteoporosis appears, it will seriously affect the quality of life, from low back pain to short height and even easy to fracture, so it is also a disease that the elderly must focus on preventing. However, because blood calcium can be extracted and supplemented from bone calcium, calcium deficiency will not be found in blood examination. Once the blood test finds calcium deficiency, it means that calcium deficiency is very, very serious. Therefore, calcium deficiency is often obvious to many people, but they don't know it.

The best way to prevent osteoporosis is to store it. Studies have shown that human bones can continue to grow and develop with age, and reach the peak before the age of 35, but after the age of 35, the bone stock will decrease, and the bones will gradually become fragile, especially in menopause, because the estrogen types in the body will lead to the rapid loss of calcium, so around the age of 35, you must consciously take calcium supplements and establish your calcium bank, instead of waiting until you grow up, which will become obviously insufficient.

When it comes to calcium supplementation, many people think of drinking milk and bone soup. In fact, in our daily diet, the highest calcium content is not milk or bone soup, but black sesame, followed by soybeans and oatmeal. In our daily diet, the calcium content of main foods such as rice, pork and chicken is very low; However, vegetables with high calcium content, such as amaranth, kale and cabbage, contain dietary fiber, phytic acid and oxalic acid, which will hinder the absorption of calcium. Therefore, even if we eat enough foods rich in calcium, we can actually only absorb very little calcium. This is the most embarrassing place to supplement calcium with dietary supplements.

Therefore, in addition to consciously eating more calcium-containing foods, the elderly need to supplement some calcium-containing products. There are many calcium tablets on the market now, with different contents, different prices and different dosage forms. You can choose according to your own needs. However, my personal suggestion is that middle-aged and elderly people are still relatively high, and it is best to absorb calcium supplements. Large manufacturers such as Max, Tomson Bianjian and Calcium Company are now producing liquid calcium capsules. It should be pointed out that these products belong to calcium carbonate type, so they need hydrochloric acid in gastric juice to be absorbed.

It should also be noted that vitamin D is very important to promote the absorption of calcium. One of the most important ways for our body to produce vitamin D is to bask in the sun! You read it right: sunshine. Therefore, we must not be afraid of tanning because of worry, and always shut ourselves in the room, not moving in the sun, calcium deficiency is a matter of time.