Welcome to the Bone Coach Show dedicated to helping you understand all things related to diet,

lifestyle, bone health, and how you can live and thrive with low bone density and osteoporosis.

I'm your host, Kevin Ellis, certified health coach, health and wellness speaker, and above all else,

your bone coach.

After being diagnosed with osteoporosis in my early 30s, I transform my health

through diet and lifestyle and now help my clients and community members do the same through my online

coaching practice, bonecoach.com. Look, there are no quick and easy cures for low bone density,

but the choices we make every single day can have a powerful impact on our bones, our health, and our

general well-being. I'll share the research, interview the experts, and help you figure out

how to get the conditions right in your body so you can better your bones through diet and

lifestyle. Short disclaimer, I'm not a medical doctor and this show should not be considered

medical advice. Always consult with your

health care team before making medical decisions and changes to your diet and lifestyle. With that being

said, let's get on with the show. Even at age two, I remind parents, we cannot actually force our

children to eat anything they don't want to eat. We have to become their partner in this equation

and if you don't believe me, try to force feed a two-year-old, it won't go well. So there is an actual

division of responsibility, and the way we talk about it in my house is that me as the parent,

my responsibility is to make sure that there's always enough nutrient-dense food that nourishes

their body available and that they can eat it when they are hungry. Their responsibility, even from a young age,

actually is to listen to their bodies and to not eat when they're not hungry and to eat when they're

hungry. So even if at a meal time, a child's actually being picky, and that is their actual maybe

underlying motivation, but their words are that they're not hungry. It will honor their decision to

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