Tea contains caffeine but also has other nutrients, such as flavonoids, that may influence bone mass in different ways. We examined the relation between tea drinking and BMD in older women in Britain, where tea drinking is common. These findings were independent of smoking status, use of hormone replacement therapy, coffee drinking, and whether milk was added to tea. Older women who drank tea had higher BMD measurements than did those who did not drink tea. Tea drinking may protect against osteoporosis in older women.
Bone requires a wide variety of nutrients to develop normally and to maintain itself after growth.
Alkali buffers, whether vegetables or fruits reverse this urinary calcium loss. The following study shows that cadmium interferes with calcium metabolism and may therefore be a contributor to osteoporosis. Yang XF, Wang SY, Zhao RC, Ao SQ, Xu LC, Wang XR Institute of Applied Toxicology, Nanjing Medical University, China. The interference of cadmium in calcium homeostasis may play an important role in cadmium toxicity. The control animals were injected with normal saline only.