Dried plums may strengt hen bones in older women

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Postmenopausal women * not severely obese (BMI \< 40 kg/m2); * healthy (determined by a screening questionnaire, complete metabolic panel); * willing to include dried plums in their daily diet; * not taking any natural dietary supplement containing phenolics, blueberries or apples for at least 2 months prior to study entry; can stop for 2 months to meet entry criteria * non-smoking; ambulatory; * low BMD as measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Eligible BMD values (T-scores) for DXA measures of the lumbar spine, total hip and/or femoral neck will correspond to T-scores between 0 and -3.0. Exclusion Criteria: * Women who regularly consume dried plums, dried apples, prune juice, or heavy consumers of blueberries (1 cup or more/day). Potential volunteers who will refrain from consumption of the afore mentioned foods for the duration of the study will become eligible after a 2 month washout period; * vitamin D deficiency (\<20 ng/mL); * history of vertebral fracture or fragility fracture of the wrist, humerus, hip or pelvis after age 50 yr); * untreated hyper- or hypothyroidism; * current hyper- or hypoparathyroidism; * significantly impaired renal function; high potassium * current hypo- or hypercalcemia; * history of spinal stenosis; * history of heart attack, stroke, thromboembolism, kidney disease, malabsorption syndrome, seizure disorders; * positive for HIV, Hep-C or Hep-B surface antigen and malignancy. * Use of the following agents affecting bone metabolism: * intravenous bisphosphonates at any time; * fluoride (for osteoporosis) within the past 24 months; * denosumab at any time; * bisphosphonates, parathyroid hormone or strontium within the past 12 months; * calcitonin or selective estrogen receptor modulators within the past 12 months; * systemic oral or transdermal estrogen within the past 3 months; * systemic glucocorticosteroids (≥ 5 mg prednisone equivalent per day for more than 10 days); or * tibolone within the past 3 months. * Participants who will not consume study therapy or will not stop taking natural product supplements of their own selection.