Fish fats reduce CR-induced osteoporosis?

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Hi All,

Do fish fats reduce CR-induced osteoporosis?

Yes, it seems. The pdf is available for the

below but unfortunately this poor typist has

difficult relaying the text details of the pdf.

The experimental procedure for CR seemed

to be appropriate. For CR, the protein, fat,

minerals and vitamins were doubled.

The five experiments used soybean control,

soybean, perilla, DHA and EPA oils, respectively.

Cellulose fiber was 88% only in CR experiments.

Only the CR plus soybean oil showed reduced

force of fracture toughness and it was significant,

P< 0.05.

For urine calcium, there were levels of ad lib >

CR + soybean > CR + perilla > not significantly EPA

> DHA (P < 0.05), for the oils.

Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2004;68(12):2613-2615.

Inhibition of Osteoporosis Due to Restricted Food Intake by the

Fish Oils DHA

and EPA and Perilla Oil in the Rat.

Sun L, Tamaki H, Ishimaru T, Teruya T, Ohta Y, Katsuyama N, Chinen

I.

Seven-week old female rats fed restricted foods including the fish

oils

Docosahesaenoic Acid (DHA) and Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) and

perilla oil with

food intake decreased by 50%, had increases of fracture force and

bone mineral

density (BMD) and decreases in levels of Deoxypiridinoline (Dpd) and

Calcium

(Ca) in the urine, compared with those of rats with osteoporosis due

to

restricted soy bean oil food intake. Therefore, the fish oils DHA and

EPA and

perilla oil depressed excretion of urinary Ca and inhibited

osteoporosis due to

restricted food intake.

PMID: 15618634 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Cheers, Alan Pater