Reports on Carrot Study Healthy 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 publisher of various essential health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is announcing on a study that has found that consuming carrots is even healthier than before. According to the studys findings, carotenoids, the pigments in fruit and vegetables that make 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 information was revealed at a major osteoporosis conference in Singapore, and comes from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, which examined more than 63,000 adults over the age of 45 to investigate the possibility of a link between the 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 most total vegetables and total carotenoids had the biggest protection from hip fractures, which are many times brought on by weakening bones and osteoporosis. The most excellent 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 good rule of thumb for carotenoids is that the more yellow and orange produce a person consumes, the more of these potent antioxidants they will ingest. Carotenoids are reformed by the body into vitamin A.

The article concludes that the study shows that getting carotenoids through the diet is linked to fracture protection for men, but increasing studies will be essential 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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