Tufts University researchers find that eating vegetables and fruits can help elderly men to protect against the bone loss that can cause hip fractures.

Study author Katherine Tucker, who is a professor of nutritional epidemiology at Tufts, said: “Vitamin C proves helpful to protect against inflammation that leads to bone absorption and bone loss and also considered essential for the creation of collagen that strengthens bones.”

The study will be published in The Journal of Nutrition in the October issue.

Katherine added, “There are some other studies that reached the same conclusion about fruits and vegetables, but we couldn’t separate vitamin C as a protective factor. Vitamin C also proved beneficial for some of the men in the study, but we can’t recommend the use of such supplements so soon.”

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