Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition. Today's show is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Maybe you're driving. Maybe you're on your way to the cabin. Maybe you're going to the farmer's market to buy plants. Perhaps you and your friends are checking out a new bike trail. At least where we live in Minnesota, the weather is gorgeous for things like that.

So whatever you're doing, I hope you keep listening because we have a really important topic to share with you.

Today's topic is how to maintain strong bones as you age.

It's estimated that 15 to 20 million Americans struggle with osteoporosis.

Eighty percent of that number are women.

And one in two women, by the time they reach 50, will break a bone because of osteoporosis.

I think that is an astounding statistic.

So now that I've introduced the topic, I'm going to introduce myself.

My name is Kara Carper.

I'm a licensed nutritionist and certified nutrition specialist.

I have a master's degree in holistic health.

And I've been working with nutritional weight and wellness for about 15 years, hard to believe.

And I'm very excited to be with

Christy Kalinsky today. Christy's a registered and licensed dietitian. She's been practicing

nutrition for the past seven years. And Christy will introduce herself in just a second here.

But first, I want you to think about this. Like I just said,

if one out of two women will break a bone by the age of 50, what is happening? What is going wrong?

Or in other words, what can we do correctly to maintain strong and healthy bones? What food should we be eating? Whether we're 20, 30, 50, 70,

even teenagers should be thinking about what to eat and what not to eat for the future of their

bone health. So that's what today's show is going to be about what can we do to make strong bones.

But we not only need strong bones, we need our bones to be flexible, not hard and brittle.

And unfortunately, many of the osteoporosis medications in the community, the medical community,

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