Welcome back to the last installment of our special series on building healthy bones throughout the lifespan in observation of osteoporosis awareness month.

The entire series is also available on our website at quick and dirty tips.com

slash bones.

Our thanks to the National Catamonds Beef Association for helping to make this special series

possible.

The NCBA is a contractor to the beef checkoff program.

That's a USDA supervised program that funds

research into human nutrition, food safety, environmental impacts, and other topics. It also

supports efforts such as this special podcast series to make that information more widely available

to consumers and scientists and health care professionals.

But just like every other episode of the Nutrition Diva podcast, my goal in this series is to provide you with

balanced, accurate, and useful information. And what I'm choosing to share reflects my own

independent assessment of the evidence.

For any of you listening who may be registered dietitians, speaking of health care professionals,

this entire podcast series has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration

for one and a half hours of continuing education credits.

And you can access those credits, as well as

the episodes themselves, by going to the Beef Nutrition Education Hub at beefnutritioneducation.org.

In the first episode of this four-part series, we focused on the unique opportunities and challenges

to building healthy bones during

childhood, and we looked at diet and nutrition, as well as other aspects of lifestyle.

Our second episode focused on teens and young adults, and the unique challenges and

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