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Good nutrition is crucial for healthy aging, as this new research proves. Lack of nutrition and exercise leads to bone weakness in aging

Maintaining your muscle mass through strategies like regular exercise and eating nutrient-dense foods can not only help your overall function, it may even boost your chance of living longer. According to a study in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, muscles mass loss may be related to earlier mortality.


Researchers studied a group of 839 men and women over the age of 65 for about four years, recording their body composition with bone density scanning over time. They looked at "appendicular muscle mass," meaning the arms and legs, as well as subcutaneous fat and visceral fat.


The results showed that women with low appendicular mass were 63 times more likely to die early compared to those with more arm and leg muscle mass. Men with low appendicular mass were 11 times more likely to be at risk for early mortality.


"Muscle mass plays a key role in stabilization for the hips and shoulders," says lead researcher Rosa Maria Rodrigues Pereira, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Sao Paulo's Medical School in Brazil. "When you lose that stability and there's a fall, low bone mineral density means you're at higher risk of a fracture."



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