—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. February 12, 1972
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But Chemical Companies Change, Too
Hen Research May Help Stop Brittle
Hyperacidity is usually thought
of as a condition of the stomach.
But bone can get the “blahs” as
well.
A high level of acidity in bone
has been found to be associated
with a high level of bone
destruction. This can result in
porosity, brittleness, and
ultimately a proneness to frac
tures.
Dr. Werner J. Mueller,
professor of Poultry Science at
Pennsylvania State University,
determined the critical influence
of acid through research on
chickens. He has been working on
the calcium metabolism of the
laying hen for some dozen years,
under support of the Penn
sylvania Agricultural Ex
periment Station and the
National Institutes of Health.
“Contrary to popular belief,
bone is not a permanent, static
material. It is constantly un
dergoing destruction and
replacement. This process is
quite slow in humans but quite
rapid in the laying hen, which
therefore serves as an excellent
model for research.”
The new findings have im-
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plications for the diagnosis and
treatment of human bone
diseases, but only as they are
confirmed by experiemnts on
human beings.
The bone of young people is
constantly replacing itself and
there is a delicate balance bet
ween the processes of bone
formation and destruction.
But in older people and
U.S. Farm Debt
Farm mortgage debt totaled an
estimated $30.7 billion on
January 1,1972, some $1.2 billion
higher than a year earlier, ac
cording to a report recently by
the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
The report by USDA’s
Economic Research Service
gives that latest available data on
farm mortgage debt by type of
lender and geographic region.
Debt rose 4.0 per cent during
1971, compared with 4 0 and 4.7
per cent during 1970 and 1969,
respectively The rate of increase '
in the debt has been declining
since 1964, when it rose 12.4 per
cent.
At the start of 1971, Federal
land banks held 24 per cent of the
total debt, life insurance com
panies 19 per cent, commerical
bank 15 per cent, the Farmers
Home Administration 1 per cent,
and miscellaneous lenders 41 per
cent.
During the last decade, the
share held by Federal land banks
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particularly in women bone
destruction often exceeds
replacement. This can lead to a
condition known as osteoporosis;
literally, porous bone. After
menopause, women have a
proneness to bone fractures and
to defects of the spine caused by
collapse of certain vertebrae.
That acid plays a large part in
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and commerical banks has in
creased, while the percentage of
debt held by the Farmers Home
Administration and life in
surance companies waned.
Interest rates charged by life
insurance companies on new
farm mortgage loans averaged
8.6 per cent during 1971’s first
half, compared with 9.3 per cent a
year earlier. Rates charged by
the 12 Federal land banks
averaged 8.01 per cent during the
first half of 1971, compared with
8 69 per cent a year earlier. The
average rate on life insurance
commitments during 1971’s third
quarter averaged 8.45 per cent.
A copy of “Farm Mortgage
Debt”, FMD-10, is available free
on postcard (please include
zipcode) or telephone (388-7255)
request from Division of In
formation, Office of Management
Services, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
20250.
16,1972
Bone Condition in People
dissolving bone mineral has
previously only been shown in
test-tube (in vitro) experiments
but has not been confirmed in
tests with living animals.
“Acid and we believe it to be
carbonic acid apparently helps
leach out or dissolve the bone
mineral in laying hens. The bone
itself with the help of an en
zyme (carbonic anhydrase)
produces the excess acid as blood
passes through it. This
‘hyperacidity’ can be reduced or
prevented by the introduction of a
chemical that inhibits this en
zyme.
“We have experimental
evidence that this inhibitor works
in chickens to keep bone
destruction down. We can say
nothing about its possible effects
in human beings until clinical
tests are undertaken.”
Bone brittleness from porosity
is also, related to exercise,
Mueller points out.
Formerly, hens confined to one
a cage developed a form of
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osteoporosis. They grew fatigued
and ultimately could not walk.
When poultrymen began
housing three birds in a cage, the
bone disease virtually disap
peared, possibly because exer
cise was stimulated.
Astronauts, even three
together, are still prone to the
“bird in a cage” syndrome. They
can lose considerable amounts of
bone mineral during prolonged
weightlessness. This is one
reason that a regimen of exercise
is insisted upon by NASA for
every space traveller.
People who must remain in bed
for long periods of time are also
subject to bone loss and possible
fractures.
Mueller emphasizes that it is
not known why bone porosity
increases in some people and at
certain advanced ages. “We are
far from suggesting a cure for
osteoporosis in man, though we
feel that our research on the
laying hen is apparently pointing
in the right direction.”
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