Unlike most books about osteoporosis that focus solely on menopausal and postmenopausal women, "Good Bones" examines 17 major risk factors for bone health in the context of life's many cycles -- from prenatal and infancy stages to childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, and beyond. Barbara Like assists readers in assessing their overall risk for osteoporosis and offers practical nutritional advice and preventative measures.
Barbara Luke is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University. She has earned degrees in nursing, nutrition, population studies, and maternal-child health. During the past twenty-five years her research has focused on improving outcomes in multiple births through both clinical and vital statistics research. She is the recipient of the 2005 Agnes Higgins Award from the March of Dimes for distinguished lifetime achievement in maternal-fetal nutrition. In 2009 the Institute of Medicine used the weight gain guidelines developed by her research team as the newest national recommendations for women pregnant with twins.
Health and nutrition information is available on her website, www.drbarbaraluke.com, along with a newly-launched line of maternity clothes specifically for women expecting twins, triplets, or quads.
