Hello, I'm Monica Rhineagle, host of the Nutrition Diva podcast, and I want to welcome you to the first in a special series of bonus episodes on bone health that we're going to be releasing throughout the

month of May, which is osteoporosis awareness month. These episodes, which will publish every

Monday in May, will be in addition to our usual Nutrition Diva episodes that publish each

Wednesday. And this entire series, once it's complete, will also be

available on our website at quick and dirty tips.com slash bones. We're so grateful to the National

Cattleman's Beef Association for helping to make this special series possible. The NCBA is a contractor to the Beef Checkoff programs, and for those of you who may not be

familiar with this USDA authorized program, the Beef Checkoff collects revenue from all

U.S. beef producers, and with those dollars, they fund research into human nutrition, food safety,

environmental impacts, and other topics. And they also support efforts such as this one,

to make that information more available to the scientific community, to consumers, healthcare

professionals, folks in the food service industry,

and so on. For any of you listening who may be registered dietitians, this special podcast

series has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration for one and a half hours

of continuing education credits. And at the end of this series,

you'll be able to access those credits, as well as the episodes themselves, by going to the

Beef Nutrition Education Hub, which is at beefnutritioneducation.org. If you're not a

dietitian, however, this series is still very much meant for you as well. Over the course of the month,

we're going to be looking at bone health as it unfolds through the lifespan. So each episode will

focus on a specific phase of life, exploring both the opportunities that each life stage

offers in terms of building or preserving strong

bones, as well as some of the common challenges that may undermine bone health. We'll be looking

at diet and nutrition, obviously, but also other aspects of lifestyle that impact bone health.

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