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Crohn's Disease Health Center  

If you have Crohn's disease, good nutrition is crucial so you can stay as healthy as possible. Unfortunately, the disease -- as well as treatments for it -- can make it much harder to get enough of the vitamins and minerals you need.
Doctors often recommend vitamins for Crohn's disease to work around this problem. Whether you need Crohn's disease vitamins -- and which ones -- depends on your case and the your medical treatments.  

Dr. Richard Coutts is the orthopedic medical director for Sharp HealthCare

Dr. Richard Coutts, orthopedic medical director for Sharp HealthCare says, that you may be surprised to learn that osteoporosis can occur in almost any person, at any age.

A follow-up study was conducted of a double-blind trial in Argentina designed to assess the effect of calcium supplementation on incidence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Six hundred fourteen women received 2 g per day of calcium or placebo from week 20 of gestation until delivery. Dental examinations were performed on 195 randomly selected children whose mothers participated in the study. The researchers who performed the dental exam were blinded to the mothers treatment assignment.

What you should know:
Vitamin D is extremely important for your bone health. Vitamin D increases your body's ability to absorb calcium, a mineral that builds our bones. Without enough vitamin D, our bones can become brittle, thin or misshapen.

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Calcium is regarded as one of the most important parts of overall body health. There are extensive benefits of calcium to the body. Besides being one of the most important components of bone and dental health, calcium also helps protect the body from a large number of conditions and illnesses.

Yikyung Park, a staff scientist at US National Cancer Institute led the study. Park and her colleagues relied on data for nearly 500,000 men and women who participated in the U.S. National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study. Participants filled out a food questionnaire when they enrolled and then were followed for an average of seven years.

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