Biochemical Assessment of Bone Health in Working Obese Egyptian Females with Metabolic Syndrome; the Effect of Weight Loss by Natural Dietary Therapies.
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the relation between bone parameters and the metabolic syndrome criteria, before and after the administration of two different natural dietary supplements in middle aged working obese Egyptian women suffering from metabolic syndrome (MetS).


METHODS
Fifty eight middle aged obese female volunteers suffering from metabolic syndrome were divided into two groups. During the first period, group (A) consumed a low caloric diet and nutritional supplement consisting of doum flour biscuits, while group (B) consumed whole meal wheat flour biscuit with the same instructions. During the second period, both supplements were omitted. Assessment of blood pressure, relevant anthropometric parameters, lipid accumulation product, fasting blood glucose, uric acid, 25 hydroxy vitamin D (25 (OH) D), parathyroid hormone (PTH) and bone-specific alkaline phosphatase were performed.


RESULTS
Data showed that although both supplements improved the MetS criteria and the bone health parameters, the supplement containing the doum flour proved to be more effective.


CONCLUSIONS
These results confirm the benefit of doum in improving bone health parameter [25 (OH) D/PTH axis] in the MetS patients, beside the MetS criteria. So, we can conclude that natural effective supplements lead towards the optimization of biochemical parameters in favor of a healthy outcome.
National Research Centre, Nutrition and Food Sciences Department, Cairo, Egypt (Affiliation ID: 60014618).
Maha I A
MI
Moaty
National Research Centre, Nutrition and Food Sciences Department, Cairo, Egypt (Affiliation ID: 60014618).
Suzanne
S
Fouad
National Research Centre, Nutrition and Food Sciences Department, Cairo, Egypt (Affiliation ID: 60014618).
Salwa M El
SM
Shebini
National Research Centre, Nutrition and Food Sciences Department, Cairo, Egypt (Affiliation ID: 60014618).
Yusr I
YI
Kazem
National Research Centre, Nutrition and Food Sciences Department, Cairo, Egypt (Affiliation ID: 60014618).
Salwa T
ST
Tapozada
Bone specific alkaline phosphatase; Doum; Metabolic syndrome; Parathyroid hormones; Vitamin D