A Culinary Intervention for Bone Health

Inclusion Criteria: * Adults referred to local tertiary osteoporosis centre for assessment of age-associated low bone mass or assessment of fracture risk * Women must be postmenopausal (i.e. documented history of surgical menopause, or at least 12 months since last menstrual period), men must be age ≥45 years * Self-determined ability to learn in classroom and kitchen environments and a virtual (video) learning environment * Reliable access to hardware, software, and internet connection required to participate in an interactive virtual (video) conference * Ability to attend local hospital-based teaching kitchen for culinary medicine intervention * Willing to participate in a culinary medicine intervention and provide informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Complex metabolic bone disease or on dialysis for end-stage kidney disease * Exclusion on the basis of other active health conditions which may present a contraindication to intake of whole and calcium-rich foods will be determined by the medical team on a case-by-case basis * Deemed by research team to be unable to learn in a group classroom or kitchen environment * Unable to communicate in English