Питание оказывает большее влияние на прочность костей, чем физические упражнения.

Один вопрос, на который хотели бы ответить ученые и эксперты в области фитнеса, заключается в том, что упражнения или питание оказывают большее положительное влияние на прочность костей.. Исследователи из Мичиганского университета изучили минеральные добавки и упражнения на мышах., and found surprising results–nutrition has a greater impact on bone mass and strength than exercise. В дальнейшем, even after the exercise training stopped, the mice retained bone strength gains as long as they ate a mineral-supplemented diet.

«В долгосрочной перспективе минерально-дополненная диета приводит к не только увеличивает костную массу и сил, но способность поддерживать те увеличивается даже после того, как период отдыха,»Сказал Дэвид Кон, профессор U-M в школах стоматологии и техники. «Это было сделано в мышах, но если вы думаете о прогрессии к людям, диета легче для кого-то вести, как они становятся старше и прекратить осуществление, а не продолжение самого упражнения «.

The second important finding is that the diet alone has beneficial effects on bone, even without exercising. This surprised Kohn, who expected exercise with a normal diet to fuel greater gains in bone strength, but that wasn’t the case.

“The data suggests the long-term consumption of the mineral-supplemented diet could be beneficial in preventing the loss of bone and strength with age, even if you don’t do exercise training," он сказал.

Combining the two amplifies the effect.

Most other studies look at effects of increasing dietary calcium, Kohn said. The U-M study increased calcium and phosphorous, and found benefits to increasing both.

This isn’t to suggest that people run out and buy calcium and phosphorus supplements, Kohn said. The findings don’t translate directly from mice to humans, but they do give researchers a conceptual place to start.

It’s known that humans achieve peak bone mass in their early 20s, and after that it declines. The question becomes how to maximize the amount of bone when young, so that when declines do begin, people start from a better position, Kohn said.

In addition to testing bone mass and strength, Kohn and colleagues performed a full battery of mechanical assessments on the bone, which is important because the amount of bone doesn’t always scale with or predict the mechanical quality of the tissue.

They tested the mice after eight weeks of training and supplemented diet or normal diet, and then after eight weeks of detraining.

The study was published online in PLOS One. Co-authors included Michael Friedman and Robert Szczepankiewicz of the U-M College of Engineering.

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