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nutrition divis quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous

so move over green smoothies.

If you haven't heard, bone broth is the hot new trend in health drinks

thanks to a recent spate of breathless articles

in health and fitness blogs and magazines.

There's even a trendy new restaurant in Manhattan's East Village called Brodo,

which specializes in bone broths.

Now, to be fair, paleoditers and Weston-price devotees have been extolling

the virtues of bone broth for quite some time now. But now everybody seems to be jumping

on the bandwagon.

And why wouldn't you?

Drinking bone broth is reputed to enhance energy, make your skin more youthful, heal a

leaky gut, strengthen your bones and joints, enhance your sleep, and boost your immune system.

So what is in this miracle health elixir to explain all these amazing benefits?

Well it's mostly water, plus some protein, fat, a few minerals,

and a couple of non-essential amino acids. In fact, bone broth is nothing more or less than what cooks refer to as stock, a broth made

by boiling animal bones and other parts in water.

If you made soup out of the bones of your Thanksgiving turkey this year, you have eaten bone broth.

Now don't you feel trendy.

So what's in this stuff?

Well, when you boil bones in water, the nutrients in the bones and their

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