Red and yellow fruit for bone health
You may know about getting enough calcium to help protect your bones from osteoporosis and keep them healthy. Keeping your bones healthy takes a bit more than that. There are many things that contribute to taking care of your bones as you get older.
Eating lots of red and orange fruit and vegetables may help to protect your bones. Red and orange fruit and vegetables contain large amounts of a substances called carotenoids. A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that eating more carotenoids (especially one callled lycopene) may maintain bone density in women. They found that women who ate lots of food rich in lycopene had less hip and lumbar bone loss than women who didn’t.
To get these benefits, fill up on cooked tomatoes, watermelon and pink and red grapefruit which are the richest sources of lycopene.
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