What's the best way to stay healthy in the face of so much conflicting nutrition information?

Well ideally you would go to the source the gold standard the pure viewed medical literature and read through the stacks of the latest medical journals

But who's got time for that? I do

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast. I'm your host Dr. Michael Grecker

It's time for the nutrition facts grab bag where we look at the science on a wide variety of topics today

We start with the results of a study that has correlated low calcium intake and vitamin D exposure with higher bone fracture rates in British vegans

Vegetarians that slightly lower bone mineral density in their spines

Although the difference was basically within the margin of error for the test if the bone quality really is compromised

they could lead to

Collapse vertebrae increased spinal fracture risk. There's no evidence for this

The incidence of vertebral fracture was ascertained in older women who had been vegan for most of their lives

34 years on average and despite their calcium intake being terrible about half that of the non-vegans and a quarter of them vitamin D

Deficient the incidence of vertebral fractures is not significantly different

Although the vegans had a higher prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and lower dietary calcium intakes the two factors were not

Associated with bone loss in fact the the annual loss in bone mineral density in the hips of vegans was less than half that of the meat eaters

Though the difference did not reach statistical significance

Vegetarian women had not been found to be at high risk of any kind of fractures including wrist fractures in this case though among

Vegetarians those who consumed the least vegetable protein intake were at the highest risk for fracture those wait beans every day or nuts or like

Veggie burgers only had a third of the risk fractures compared to vegetarians who only ate beans or other higher protein foods less than three times a week

So those are consumer vegan or vegetarian diet may be an increased risk of fracture unless care is taken to ensure an adequate quantity and variety of foods high in protein

such as whole grains nuts and beans split-piece chickpeas or lentils are in the diet

That's one of the reasons my free daily dozen app I recommend whole grains and legumes every day

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