Welcome back to our special series on building healthy bones throughout the lifespan.

I'm Monica Reinagle, host of the Nutrition Diva podcast, and we are offering these bonus episodes

in observation of osteoporosis

awareness month, in addition to our usual Nutrition Diva episodes that publish every Wednesday.

This entire series, once it's complete, will also be available on our website at quickanddirty

tips.com slash bones.

Once again, we are grateful to the National Catamance Beef

Association for helping to make this special series possible. The NCBA is a contractor to the

beef check-off, a program overseen by the USDA that funds research into human nutrition,

food safety, environmental impacts, and other topics,

and also supports efforts such as this special podcast series to make all that information more

widely available. Rest assured, however, that the information I'm sharing in this series

reflects my own independent assessment of the evidence, as well as my professional

experience and judgment. For any of you listening who may be registered dietitians,

I want to remind you that this podcast series on bone health has been approved by the

Commission on Dietetic Registration for one and a half hours of continuing education credits.

So at the end of the series, you'll be able to 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 our series, we were focusing on the unique opportunities and challenges

to building healthy bones during childhood. Our second episode focused on teens and young

adults and the unique challenges and opportunities that this time of life presents in terms of

bone health. And in this episode, we're going to be looking

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