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f the role of calcium and vitamin D is more to demonstrate in preventing osteoporosis, what about plant products ?According to researchers at the INRA, the consumption of citrus, olives and olive oil would also be beneficial to the skeleton. In any case, in mice.
They highlighted in this animal, the effectiveness of two polyphenols hitherto ignored: hesperidine citrus, and oleuropeine of the olive tree. So much so that their eyes, "the impact of osteoporosis diet on the metabolism skeletal opens today towards a genuine nutritional prevention."
The authors have shown the other hand, that "animals exposed to the phyto-estrogens during the prenatal period have a higher bone mass and better resistance to osteoporosis fracture at the end of life." Experiments are underway to confirm or refute these effects in humans.
