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Little milk, exercise hurts kids' bones

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer 23 minutes ago

Too little milk, sunshine and exercise: It's an anti-bone trifecta. And for some kids, shockingly, it's leading to rickets, the soft-bone scourge of the 19th century.

But cases of full-blown rickets are just the red flag: Bone specialists say possibly millions of seemingly healthy children aren't building as much strong bone as they should — a gap that may leave them more vulnerable to bone-cracking osteoporosis later in life than their grandparents are.

"This potentially is a time-bomb," says Dr. Laura Tosi, bone health chief at Children's National Medical Center in Washington.

Now scientists are taking the first steps to track kids' bone quality and learn just how big a problem the anti-bone trio is causing, thanks to new research that finally shows just what "normal" bone density is for children of different ages.

Dr. Heidi Kalkwarf of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital led a national study that gave bone scans to 1,500 healthy children ages 6 to 17 to see how bone mass is accumulated. The result, published last summer: The first bone-growth guide, just like height-and-weight charts, for pediatricians treating children at high risk of bone problems.

Next, the government-funded study is tracking those 1,500 children for seven more years, to see how their bones turn out. Say a 7-year-old is in the 50th percentile for bone growth. Does she tend to stay at that level by age 14, or catch up to kids with denser bones? If not, if she more prone to fractures?

Ultimately, the question is what level is cause for concern.

"I don't know if we're raising a population that's going to be at risk" for osteoporosis, Kalkwarf cautions. "It's really hard to know what the cutoff is, how low is too low."

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They should do a study with vegan children as well.

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It's really hard to be fat and vegan. Vegans read labels. However, your body will pack the pounds if you abuse alcohol or sweets. We watch our portions and choose wisely. Many exercise, do yoga, spinning or some other healthy activity.

Being a vegan makes you have self-control. Once you can get past the desire to eat meat, the rest is easy. If I have poor choices in my fridge, I'm human, I'll probably eat them because they're there. Self-control comes from not buying them.

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We all have those moments...and the last thing you might want to do after a filling grease bomb is to go walk it off, but science says it's the smart thing to do - and not just for the sake of fitting into your skinny jeans.

Greasy foods can cause your arteries to lose elasticity for six hours, but exercise can come to the rescue. In one recent study, people who walked for 45 minutes within two hours after munching on fast food maintained the same healthy heart function as those who ate fat-free and lounged afterward.

Did someone say do it for your heart? Well, yes! Speaking of which, we may be more compelled by the number on the scale than the measure of our ticker, but there are other digits that you should know for your health, and one of those is your resting heart rate.

It's how fast your heart beats per minute when you're sitting totally still or just woke up in the morning, which is a measure of how trained your heart is. To find yours, take your pulse - ideally, first thing before you get out of bed.

Count the number of heartbeats for 10 seconds, then multiply that number by six to determine your heartbeats per minute (bpm). The normal range for an adult is between 60 and 80 bpm, although it can be lower in more physically fit people.

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I have an idea, don't eat greasy food. ;-)

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