Diet Don’ts for healthy bones and joints

Preparing your body for the long haul means you need to do more than just eat foods rich calcium, vitamin D, potassium, and other bone- benefiting nutrients.

You should look to try and eliminate your intake of foods that can harm you body, trigger inflammation, or leaching calcium from bones and blocking absorption

Protect your frame and eliminate Processed foods

•  Processed foods contain health sapping substances including trans fats, sugar,     sodium, refined carbs
• While these things aren’t great for us at any age, it is best to avoid them as you age because of the harmful effects on your bones
• Trans fats, sugar, processed carbohydrates all increase inflammation, worsening stiffness, pain and even range of motion and destroying cartilage
•  Inflammation also is known to accelerate bone breakdown.
•  Sugar has been implicated in increase osteoporosis, since it negative affects the balance of calcium and phosphorous needed for healthy bones.
•  Eliminate all trans fats and swap carbs for whole grains whenever possible.
•  Excess sodium can cause you to excrete more calcium, decreasing the amount available for bones. Sodium can cause swelling, increasing pressure on tender joints, fluid retention.
• Caffeine leaches calcium from bones and can interfere with absorption. 
•  Sodas contain sugar caffeine and phosphoric acid that destroy bone health.

By far the easiest way to healthy bones and joints is to reduce the amount of processed foods and prepare your own food as much as possible with wholegrain, fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, seeds.