A Bean Snack Which Limits Bone Loss

Japanese researchers have evidence indicating that a bean snack may mitigate the loss of bone volume which can lead to a condition known as osteoporosis. A newly developed snack effective for enhancing bone volume is the name of a paper published in Nutrition Journal. From the abstract:

The incidence of primary osteoporosis is higher in Japan than in USA and European countries. Recently, the importance of preventive medicine has been gradually recognized in the field of orthopaedic surgery with a concept that peak bone mass should be increased in childhood as much as possible for the prevention of osteoporosis. Under such background, we have developed a new bean snack with an aim to improve bone volume loss. In this study, we examined the effects of a newly developed snack on bone volume and density in osteoporosis model mice.