Ep. 1364: Bone-Building Broth

Cindy Campos, Weston A. Price Foundation, and Andrew Renard and Michelle Carter, Kitchen Table Cultures (Traditional Nourishing Food, Bone broth, Bone broth recipes) All ancient cultures included bones in their diets.  The ancients ate bones because they tasted good and strengthened their own bones.  Then along came modern times and broken bones!  And so we pause to ask: Should we look to ancient diets to strengthen weak bodies? Like many, I often started my day with a hot cup of strong coffee.  The heat warmed me up and the caffeine jerked me awake.  Good morning world! This morning coffee habit began in high school, and continued without interruption until a few years ago, when I was introduced to bone broth by the folks at the Weston A. Price Foundation. The Foundation caught my attention by boldly standing atop a soapbox in the public square and stating the dietary heresy, “Fat is good!”  This statement directly contradicted the dominant dietary truth of the time, as put forth by the American Heart Association, that “Fat is bad!” The Foundation furthered their dietary heresy by also claiming that modern foods are nutritionally “poor,” while the foods of traditional diets were “rich.”  And furthermore, one of the things that made traditional foods rich was that all traditional diets included that which modern diets exclude – bones. And so today I prefer to start my day with a hot cup of rich bone broth.  The heat warms me up and the nutrition awakens my body.  Then, after the bone broth has set up my day, I go for that cup of coffee. What I have found in bone broth, and the other foods of nourishing traditions, leads me to ask: Should we look to ancient dietary staple of bone broth to strengthen our breaking bones? Connect: www.metrofarm.com