{"id":4133,"date":"2015-05-18T20:29:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/these-bones-were-made-for-walkin\/"},"modified":"2015-05-18T20:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:29:04","slug":"these-bones-were-made-for-walkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/18\/these-bones-were-made-for-walkin\/","title":{"rendered":"These bones were made for walkin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) \u2013 When humans invented the wheel and domesticated horses thousands of years ago, enabling a transition from hunting and gathering to farming, they also started developing weaker bones that make modern people more susceptible to fractures and osteoporosis, according to a new study. Scientists analyzed the remains of Europeans who lived at various times over the past 33,000 years and found the more stationary lifestyle afforded by farming \u2013 not the rise of cities or changes in diet \u2013 appears to have led to thinner, more brittle bones in modern humans, compared to our \u201ccaveman\u201d ancestors. \u201cThere was a lot of evidence that earlier humans had stronger bones and that weight-bearing exercise in modern humans prevents bone loss, but we didn\u2019t know if the shift to weaker bones was driven by the rise in agriculture, or by other causes like diet or urbanization,\u201d said Dr. Christopher Ruff, director of the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore who led the study published May 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) \u2013 When humans invented the wheel and domesticated horses thousands of years ago, enabling a transition from hunting and gathering to farming, they also started developing weaker bones that make modern people more susceptible to fractures and osteoporosis, according to a new study. Scientists analyzed the remains of Europeans who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}