... and the difference between the two! The final video in the How To... series is finally up on YouTube. I have been working on these videos over the past few months to show you how easy it is to make these really nourishing foods at home. Bone broths have always been a way to make use of every part of an animal. Bones, skin, feet, tendons and anything you can’t eat directly are boiled and then simmered for a couple of days. This simmering causes the bones to break down and release healing compounds like collagen, gelatin, glycine and glutamine. The resulting broths are nutrient-dense, easy to digest, rich in flavour and support healing, immune function and restore strength to the gut linin
The Obama administration recently announced it will spend over a hundred million dollars on deepening our knowledge of the human microbiome - the bacteria, fungi, viruses and other organisms which make their home in and on our bodies. There has been lots about this in the news and two short programmes on Radio 4 looking at the links between the microbiome and diet. You can download and listen to them here. I am often asked what I think the best way of eating is and the honest answer is always "it depends". So many people (often online) are passionate that their diet is the one to fix everyone - paleo, primal, vegan, vegetarian, blood type - but none of them are right. These diets work for so
