Nutritional Influences on Bone Health

Connie M. Weaver, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.  In 2013, she was bestowed the honor of the Spirit of the Land Grant Award. In 2012 she was selected as the Herbert Newby McCoy recipient, the most prestigious research honor given by Purdue University.  In 2010 she was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of The National Academies, of which she is a member of the Food and Nutrition Board.  Also, in 2010 the Women's Global Health Institute (WGHI) was formed at Purdue University with the mission of improving the health of women globally through research and training by proactively identifying the causes and prevention of diseases related to women. For her contributions in teaching, Dr. Weaver was awarded Purdue University's Outstanding Teaching Award.

“This comprehensive and valuable book summarizes the evidence and the lack thereof of the nutritional (dairy, micronutrients), lifestyle (exercise, resistance training), and supplemental (vitamin D, Omega 3, prebiotics) effects on bone health. It also sheds light on calcium/vitamin D requirements on bone growth in children.” (Stephanie Hakimian, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 22 , 2019)​

• Vitamin D.- DO-HEALTH: Vitamin D3-Omega3-Home Exercise-Healthy Ageing and Longevity Trial:  Dietary Patterns in 5 European Countries.- Vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty Acid Trial 2017:  Addressing Effects on Muscle and Bone.- Vitamin D in children in Asia.- Micronutrients:  Calcium, Sodium, and Potassium.- Peak BMC Growth and Calcium Requirements.- Integrative Omic study to Identify Potential Dietary Supplement for Osteoporosis Treatment.- Dietary Mineral Intake Ratios and Bone health in Adults.- Dietary Calcium, Lifestyle Factors and Bone Health in Chinese Premenarcheal Girls.- Exercise/Sedentary Behavior.- Nutrition and Exercise Approaches to Enhance Muscle, Mobility and Cognition During Ageing.- Sedentary Behaviors in Children and Adolescents:  What is the Influence on Bone Strength?.- Effects of Energy Availability on Bone Healthy in Exercising Pre-Menopausal Women.- Lifestyle Intervention to Improve Mobility in Apparently Healthy Chinese Elders:  A Hypothesis Generating Study.- Prebiotics.- Diet, Microbiota and Bone Health.- Therapeutic Targeting of Gut-Bone Signaling to Treat Osteoporosis.- Meeting Calcium Needs in Asia and Prebiotic Study Protocol.- Bioactives/Functional Foods.- Effect of Dried Plum and Bone Biomarkers in Men.- Bone Protective Chinese Herbs:  The Story of Fructus Ligustri Lucidi.- Diet Patterns/Micronutrients.- The Relationship Between Dietary Fat and Scaropenia, Skeletal Muscle Loss, Osteoporosis and Risk of Fracture in Aging.- Dairy Products, Vitamin D and Bone Health.- Dietary intake in Chinese Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Sarcopenia:   A Focus on Protein.- Policy and Translation.- No Relationship Between Serum 25 (OH) Vitamin D Concentrations and Perceptions of Vitamin D Dietary Intake Adequacy in U.S. and German Adults not using Dietary Supplements.- Building and  Translating Evidence-Based Nutrition and Bone Research into Policy and Public Health Messaging.