Colorado Health Care

The development and bone growth is a process that takes place from the womb to the last days of life of the individual. A lifetime for the bone can be enhanced or, conversely, to not reach their optimal development and will gradually weaken.

1. The diet is key throughout life

In this complex process, bone tissue has an array of nutritional requirements that will need to cover food through the individual ingest.

From this point of view, pharmacology or supplementation are unimportant because, if necessary, it will be only for short periods of time and of course, can never replace what food should be provided from birth of the individual or even before that.

It is known that properly organize food from early childhood brings great benefits in terms of health, including bone and quality of life. It is therefore necessary to always emphasize the importance of nutrition education.

2. Pregnancy and lactation

Pregnancy. It is a stage of life where it is recommended to increase the intake of calcium.
During pregnancy and lactation produced a series of physiological and environmental constraints make it necessary to bring food contributions and lifestyles of this special impact on mother and child.

The change in the nutritional needs and, in particular, changes in phospho-calcium balance was largely due to hormonal changes that serve as substrate for all the processes of synthesis and maternal-fetal adaptation that develop along pregnancy, fetal maturation and during lactation to feed the child, always with the priority needs of the fetus or infant.

As a result of the changes that take place before fetal skeletal mineralization is favored progressive retention of calcium to meet the increasingly growing demand for fetal skeletal mineralization. (more…)