The healthy bones plant-based nutrition plan and cookbook : how to prepare and combine plant foods to maintain optimal bone density and prevent osteoporosis

Summary: A plant-based diet is often associated with bountiful health benefits, so why doesn't it always protect you from age-related bone loss? Is lower bone density an inescapable price even young people must pay for choosing a plant-based diet? In this book, Dr. Laura Kelly, a specialist in precision medicine for bone health and medicine-through-food nutrition, puts these questions to rest, offering expert guidance on plant-forward or vegetarian diets that help ensure healthy bones. She and coauthor Helen Kelly explain how a diet of mostly or only plants may leave us with deficiencies in key nutrients for bones including protein, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin B12 -- yet they offer solutions for how to best plant and prepare meals to optimize nutrients to avoid lower bone density. -- Adapted from back cover.