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.”
On the other hand, the study didn’t show the same sort of benefits for women who suffered bone loss. “There is no clear explanation for that. We were expecting it to prove helpful in men as well as in women. The small size and a variation in susceptibility may be the factors the led tow these different results in men and women.” She further added.
Similarly, the results of the study showed that vitamin C proved less protective in smokers and it was also an unexpected finding, said Tucker.
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