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Take the necessary precautions to maintain bone health and avoid bone fractures common with getting older

Calgary, AB -- Sep 12, 2018 -- A bone scan will check one's bones for bone mass density. It can detect if bones are thinning, where they are getting thinner and if there is a chance of fracturing. Bone scans use dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, or DEXA. It is a quick and painless scan. The DEXA uses two types of scores, a T-score and a Z-score to determine the bone density. T-scores are what is used to determine osteoporosis.

Whether or not one should get a bone scan is really dependant on their health risk factors and age. If one has bone health risk factors, they can avoid osteoporosis by getting a scan early and working with a doctor to treat any issues that come from the results. By not waiting for any concerns to begin, like fractures, to start treatment, one will not have to deal with the pain associated with the problem.

Bone health is determined by one's bone mass and measured in density. Normal bone density is measured using one's T-score. A T-score of -1 or above is normal. A T-score of -1 to -2.5 is low bone density. A diagnosis of osteoporosis is a T-score of under -2.5. By finding out one's bone mass density, one is able to predict the risk of fracture much in the same way one can predict the risk of having a stroke when their blood pressure is monitored.

There are a few health issues that can raise the risk of osteoporosis for both men and women. Post menopausal women over the age of 65 are at the highest risk. Estrogen preserves bone strength and after menopause, estrogen levels drop. Those under the age of 65 have a lower risk and should not worry about getting a scan unless they have other risk factors like smoking, taking steroids, a history of fractures or a body weight of under 127 pounds, according to WebMD. Another risk factor is having a family member who has had fragility fractures, which are broken bones from a minor injury. Men also have to be concerned, just later in life. According to researchers at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 'usually around age 70, men start to catch up to women in developing osteoporosis'.

Preventing osteoporosis involves a full range of activities when one is growing older. A bone scan is just one of the things someone can do to help. Other things they can do to prevent osteoporosis involve nutrition, including supplementing diets with bone and joint health supplements, exercise, and continuing to follow one's medical recommendations given after one gets their results. If one finds they have one or more of the risk factors, they will want to make some changes around their home to prevent falls which can cause a major fracture in the hip. Hip fractures are one of the most debilitating types of breaks and are best avoided when possible. When one diligently checks their bone mass density and takes precautions, they are able to avoid the painful consequences of osteoporosis.

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Nutriden, www.nutriden.com, is committed to helping Customers live a healthy lifestyle by providing the world's finest nutraceuticals, like Nutriden Bone Health Calcium Supplement, available to help boost energy levels and to help improve and maintain overall health to feel better and to help get the most out of nutrition for life.

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Calgary, AB -- Sep 11, 2018 -- Smoking causes and exacerbates many health problems, including hindering bone health. Smoking lowers estrogen levels, which will create less dense bones in your body. Bone density is important to bone health. Smoking tobacco is a risk factor for osteoporosis and bone fracture.

Bone is an organ in the body that needs certain things in order to remain healthy. One of these essential items is calcium. Calcium allows bones to regenerate, which is constantly happening within the body. Therefore, bones need a lot of calcium to do this each and every day. Calcium is not the only thing bones need to replenish itself, it also needs Vitamin D. Without Vitamin D, bones are unable to absorb the calcium it needs to regenerate and there is a loss of bone mass.

Strong bone mass is the sign of healthy bones. As we age, our bones start to get thinner because bones break down faster than they can be regenerated. This is natural and does not normally lead to bone complications. But, if for smokers, this is when they will begin to see the major problems that smoking has affected ontheir bones.

Smoking reduces the amount of calcium that can be absorbed in the bones by hindering the job of Vitamin D. Smoking also lowers estrogen levels in the body, which again hinders how calcium is absorb in bones. When these two things happen, bones start to get brittle putting the person at risk for osteoporosis. If a person continues to smoke, their risk factors of having brittle bones and problems with fractures is higher than with the normal aging of bones.

If a person smokes during their bone building years, bone mass will be affected. At some point in a person's mid-thirties, their bone mass peaks. For a smoker, the bone mass will peak earlier, leaving them thinner bones to start with as the aging process begins. Allowing for more problems with bone density, fractures, and osteoporosis at an earlier time in their lives. According to the National Institute of Health, osteoporosis has been 'called a childhood disease with old age consequences because building healthy bones in youth helps prevent osteoporosis and fractures later in life'. The types of fractures smokers are more susceptible to is at issue as smokers have a 2 to 4 higher chance of having hip fractures and fractures of the spine than non-smokers.

The only way to keep smoking from being a health issue in bones is to not smoke, find a way to quit. According to the UPMC hospital, even if a smoker takes bone strengthening medication because the medication will not be able to work when you smoke. If you are able to quit smoking, then taking medications and supplements will help your bones become healthier.

If you feel you may need medications to help with your bone density because of a previous smoking habit, you can have a bone mineral density (BMD) test. This safe and painless test measures bone density at various sites of the body. It can detect osteoporosis before a fracture occurs and can predict one’s chances of fracturing in the future.

About Nutriden

Nutriden, www.nutriden.com, is committed to helping Customers live a healthy lifestyle by providing the world's finest nutraceuticals, like Nutriden Bone Health Calcium Supplement, available to help boost energy levels and to help improve and maintain overall health to feel better and to help get the most out of nutrition for life.

Media Contacts:
Nutriden
PO Box 36119, Lakeview PO
Calgary AB, T3E 7C6 Canada
Phone: (844) 466-8874
Email: customerservice@nutriden.com
Website: www.nutriden.com

Calgary, AB Canada, 10 September, 2018 -- When creating a fitness routine, don't forget to add exercises that will help strengthen one's bones. While most fitness focuses on muscle and cardio-vascular, adding bone strengthening to the workout will give a person a healthier all around experience. Bones have a big job as they are responsible for supporting our bodies. They are what allows our muscles to do the workouts we design. Therefore, it is important to make strengthening them a part of our fitness routine. When a person is conscience of doing this, their bones will be healthy through their old age.

It is the opinion of most physical trainers that while muscles get the most attention when it comes to fitness routines, bones are just as important - maybe more so! If one only focuses on muscles and neglects their bones, they run the risk of bone density complications, fractures, and osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is defined as, according the WebMD, "is a condition that causes bones to gradually thin and weaken, leaving them susceptible to fractures. About 2 million fractures occur each year due to osteoporosis." The National Osteoporosis Foundation goes on to explain: "About 54 million Americans have osteoporosis and low bone mass, placing them at increased risk for osteoporosis. Studies suggest that approximately one in two women and up to one in four men age 50 and older will break a bone due to osteoporosis." Showing us all how important it is to add bone exercising to our fitness routines.

When you are choosing which exercises to do for bone health, know that they are not all the same. For strengthening your bones, use weight bearing exercises. Don't become discouraged by the thought of using weights in the fitness routine. There is no need to use heavy weights at all, but adding weights will not only strengthen your muscles, but your bones as well.

Adding heavy weights to one's fitness routine is a good idea as well as they have been shown to really help too. As Brad Schoenfeld, an assistant professor of exercise science at New York City’s Lehman College, told Time Magazine: "Through a process known as bone remodeling, strength training stimulates the development of bone osteoblasts: cells that build bones back up. While one can achieve some of these bone benefits through aerobic exercise, especially in one's lower body, resistance training is really the best way to maintain and enhance total-body bone strength."

Cardio-vascular exercises are good for bones when they involve jumping, running or other resistance type or weight bearing type of exercising. As long as you are using against gravity exercises, they will work to make your bones healthier.

It is never too late to start working out for bone health. Our bones can always use the boost, no matter your age, as they are working for us each and every day. So, go out and start walking or taking the stairs. Lift some weights! Then, start to enjoy better bone health.

About Nutriden

Nutriden, www.nutriden.com, is committed to helping Customers live a healthy lifestyle by providing the world's finest nutraceuticals, like Nutriden Bone Health Calcium Supplement, available to help boost energy levels and to help improve and maintain overall health to feel better and to help get the most out of nutrition for life.

Media Contacts:
Nutriden
PO Box 36119, Lakeview PO
Calgary AB, T3E 7C6 Canada
Phone: (844) 466-8874
Email: customerservice@nutriden.com
Website: www.nutriden.com

9 September 2018 -- Bone health is as important to men as it is to women because the loss of bone density effects both sexes as they age. A decrease in bone density can lead to fractures, including major breaks like hip fractures that can be fatal. Bone loss from aging may also lead to osteoporosis, a crippling bone disease. An associate professor at the University of Missouri, Pam Hinton, leads research on bone health. She has recently conducted a study on physical activity and bone health, including if exercise can keep bones dense or make them more dense. Her research into bone health is important to both sexes because a decrease in bone density can lead to osteoporosis fractures and she has found that one-in-four men will have a fracture of this type in their lifetime.

Decreased bone density is often thought of as an issue women face in their post menopausal years. Studies have come to show that men have difficulty with keeping their bones healthy in their later years as well. Since breaks that happen because of falls can effect mobility as you age and should be avoided. Therefore, it is important for both men and women to take an active approach to bone health as they age.

Bone health is measured mostly in bone mass. When bone because porous, it loses its density and becomes weak. In the worst case scenario, loss of bone mass leads to osteoporosis. According to the 'the risk of fracture is increased approximately two-fold in osteopenic individuals and five-fold in people with osteopenia'. The facts go on to say, 'Risk factors for osteoporosis in men are similar to those identified in women: family history, age, low body weight, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, inadequate calcium or vitamin D intake, low reproductive hormone levels, physical inactivity, and disease or medication affecting bone metabolism'.

The study suggests that both men and women need to take active steps towards keeping their bones healthy. These steps not only include regular exercise, but also weight bearing exercise and proper nutrition through diet and supplements. The researchers in her study measured bone mineral density in 43 competitive male cyclists and runners ages 20 to 59. They found that 63 percent of the cyclists had osteopenia of the spine or hip compared with 19 percent of the runners. The study shows the type of exercise you do for your bone health matters.

Supplementing ones diet with bone and joint health supplements may also be effective in fighting bone loss from the natural effects of aging for men and women.

Nutriden believes that weight bearing exercise is part of a fit routine that will lead to building and maintaining healthy bones, along with a healthy diet that includes our Nutriden Bone Health Calcium Supplement.

About Nutriden

Nutriden, www.nutriden.com, is committed to helping Customers live a healthy lifestyle by providing the world's finest nutraceuticals, like Nutriden Bone Health Calcium Supplement, available to help boost energy levels and to help improve and maintain overall health to feel better and to help get the most out of nutrition for life.

Sep 6th 2018 -- As part of the company launching into the marketplace, Nutriden is re launching its new Bone and Joint HealthSupplements that contains Vitamin C, which has been associated with reducing risk of bone fractures.

Most people know that Vitamin C is an important nutrient, but most are not aware of its value in relation to building and maintaining bone health. Many people first learn about the value of Vitamin C in school where it is introduced through history’s explorers and their poor nutrient- lacking diets that caused many of them to get scurvy. However, scurvy is not really a common occurrence now in developed countries, but developing bone health diseases, including suffering from bone fractures are still a risk.

Building bone density is important in reducing the risk of osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and bone fractures. Studies have associated the following with Vitamin C intake:

• The bone benefits of Vitamin C appear to be particularly striking for women who smoke or are on hormone replacement therapy.
• In animal studies, Vitamin C helped prevent the bone loss associated with ovary removal. In this study, the researchers suggest that Vitamin C could prevent “low turnover osteoporosis” — which is a type of bone loss associated with ovary removal. Bone turnover involves the on-going process by which old bone is broken and new bone formed. Low bone turnover, means low bone renewal.
• Higher intake of Vitamin C has been associated with a lower rate of bone loss as we age. Equally, many studies report that individuals with osteoporosis have lower levels of Vitamin C.

Additionally, as presented by Osteoporosis International, Volume 20 (2009), studies have also associated the following with Vitamin C intake for reducing the risk of bone fractures and speeding fracture healing:

• Higher intake of Vitamin C is associated with a reduced risk of bone fractures, while low levels of ascorbic acid have been reported in patients experiencing hip fracture. For example, in the 15-year Framingham Osteoporosis Study, participants with the highest intake of total Vitamin C had significantly fewer fractures compared to those with the lowest Vitamin C intake.
• Vitamin C aids in fracture healing. In both human and animal studies, adequate Vitamin C levelsare consistently found to speed fracture healing.

Abone healing supplement containing Vitamin C offers additional osteo support for the healing of bone fractures.

To learn more about this new Bone Health formula with Vitamin C, visit Nutriden's website at www.Nutriden.com.

About Nutriden

At Nutriden, www.nutriden.com, is committed to helping Customers to live a healthy life by providing the world's finest nutraceuticals, like Bone Health, available to help support and maintain bones and to help improve and maintain overall health to feel better and to help get the most out of nutrition for life.

How Hotsnow continues to lead the Finnish 3D Rendering Market

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11 September 2018 -- Known for its praiseworthiness in providing high quality graphical and branding solutions to organisations and businesses, Hotsnow has continued to expand its reach with leading market innovations in the area of 3D visualization services in recent times. The photorealistic 3D rendering for the soon-to-begin renovation project of the Suomen Chabad Lubavitch House is one of hotsnow’s most recent masterpiece.

The Chabad Lubavitch House rendering is an exterior and interior 3D visualisation project for the historic building renovation of Suomen Chabad Lubavitch, a Jewish religious organisation located in Helsinki, Finland. The project was done with high precision to match with the specific requirements detailed by the religious client. Areas such as dress code, kitchen facilities, colour patterns, designs and styles where all inclusive in making sure that the new masterpiece will only look modern but still reflect the life and feel of what the house was known for.

“Our team has created the brilliant visuals to be in strict compliance with the plenty of requirements detailed by the authority for whom the project was done," said the lead designer at Hotsnow. "Also, being satisfied with our work, both the clients and official authorities accepted the projects, and it has such been passed to production."

While this is a noteworthy mark of service excellence, the Hotsnow 3D rendering team is readily prepared to offer more 3D visualization solutions for meeting the needs of businesses and organisations both in Finland and abroad.

About Hotsnow

Hotsnow is an expert 3D Rendering Services Agency situated in Helsinki area in Finland with attention on accurate photographic 3D rendering and masterful smaller scale enumerating work. We offer proficient 3D renderings in capacities that can fit into any organization’s needs giving you a feel of the prototype before the final product is constructed. Our primary MISSION is to ensure that every client can feel the professional support and care of our company, living through the most unforgettable experience. For more information about Hotsnow services, please visit https://rendering.hotsnow.fi/

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Igor Polyakov
+358447337045
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As part of the company launching into the marketplace, Nutriden is re launching its new Bone and Joint Health Supplements that contains Vitamin K, which has been associated with supporting bone density and reducing risk of bone fractures.

The University of Marilyn Medical Center describes Vitamin K and its role as, “a fat-soluble vitamin, so your body stores it in fat tissue and the liver. It is best known for its role in helping blood clot, or coagulate, properly. The "K" comes from its German name, Koagulationsvitamin.”

Building bone density is important in reducing the risk of osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and bone fractures. Studies cited by The National Center for Biotechnology Information have associated the following with Vitamin K intake:

• human intervention studies have demonstrated that Vitamin K can not only increase bone mineral density in osteoporotic people but also actually reduce fracture rates.
• human intervention studies show there is evidence in that Vitamins K and D, a classic in bone metabolism, works synergistically on bone density.
• human intervention studies show emerging evidence that Vitamin K(1) at a much lower dose may also benefit bone health, in particular when coadministered with Vitamin D.

Vitamin K is often referred to as “the forgotten vitamin,” because many of its other benefits besides its role in helping blood clot are overlooked, or, are not known. Recent research has shown that having adequate Vitamin K is important in preventing heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, and even Alzheimer’s disease. Additionally, people who are taking or have taken antibiotics for other health conditions should be aware that anitbiotics can reduce the absorption of Vitamin K in the body. By taking them for more than 10 days, it might lower levels of Vitamin K because these drugs kill not only harmful bacteria but also the bacteria that make Vitamin K.

To learn more about Nutriden’s Bone and Joint Health Supplements with Vitamins K and D, visit Nutriden's website at www.Nutriden.com.

About Nutriden

At Nutriden, www.nutriden.com, is committed to helping Customers to live a healthy life by providing the world's finest nutraceuticals, like Bone Health, available to help support and maintain bones and to help improve and maintain overall health to feel better and to help get the most out of nutrition for life.