
	Bones Supplements

Bones Supplements

BONES

Bone health is vitally important throughout our lives. Beginning with our development in the womb, throughout early childhood and active youth, and all during our childbearing years, midlife changes and elder years, we must offer plenty of nourishment to our bones. We depend on our bones for their support. We are thankful for the structure they bring to our lives.

WHAT ARE THE BONES

Bone tissue is a specialized form of connective tissue and is the main element of the skeletal tissues. It is composed of cells and an extracellular matrix in which fibers are embedded. Bone tissue is unlike other connective tissues in that the extracellular matrix becomes calcified.

FUNCTIONS OF BONE TISSUE

The skeleton is built of bone tissue. Bone provides the internal support of the body and provides sites of attachment of tendons and muscles, essential for locomotion.
Bone provides protection for the vital organs of the body: the skull protects the brain; the ribs protect the heart and lungs.
The hematopoietic bone marrow is protected by the surrounding bony tissue.
The main store of calcium and phosphate is in bone. Bone has several metabolic functions especially in calcium homeostasis.

Bone is a hard, but brittle, tissue and is relatively light per unit volume. Bone is a dynamic tissue, which throughout life bone tissue is continually being formed and resorbed.

NUTRIENTS FOR BETTER BONES

Bones Supplements The best way to avoid the disease is with exercise and a balanced, nutritious diet, starting in childhood. But as a recent National Institutes of Health. (NIH) conference on osteoporosis revealed, only 10 percent of the girls and 25 percent of the boys between the ages of 9 and 17 get sufficient amounts of calcium in their diets to grow healthy bones. And adults don't fare much better. Studies have shown that few men or women get even the RDA of calcium (1,000 mg a day up to age 50, then 1,200 to 1,500 daily).