Food For Your Bones: 2 recipes

Researchers, working out of the Columbia University Medical centre, have made a discovery that sheds a new light on those old bones. The research team demonstrated that the skeleton is in fact an endocrine organ and this organ helps control our metabolism and our weight. This means that our skeleton is a determinant of the development of type 2 diabetes.

Nutrients like calcium, protein, vitamin D, vitamin K, boron, silica, strontium, magnesium and manganese are important factors for building healthy bones. The recipes that follow will provide your bones with the food they need.

Food For Your Bones:

Bone Soup:

No actual bones are used but the results will help you build strong bones.

Ingredients;

1 small turnip, diced

½ cabbage finely sliced

1 medium onion diced

1 Sprig parsley

2 gloves garlic

3 cups water

Sea salt to taste

½ teaspoon black pepper.*

Preparation;

Put water in sauce pot

Add all ingredients except black pepper

Bring to boil, cook for ten (10) minutes

Take off heat

Allow to cool

Put in blender and blend.

Put mixture back into sauce pot, reheat

Remove from stove

Add black pepper.

Serve.

If you like it hot you can add a dash of hot pepper after serving.

For a variation add diced celery, one stalk and ½ large green pepper.

You can serve a simple cucumber and tomato salad before the soup.

Ingredients:

2 medium tomatoes- diced

1 small cucumber- diced

1 lime, squeezed for dressing

Alternatively you can use lemon or a lime and lemon combo. If using the combo add ½ and ½ lime-lemon.

Preparation:

add diced tomatoes and cucumber to bowl pour over lime juice, mix and serve. Black pepper adds zest.

You do not have to spend hours in your kitchen to enjoy healthy and delicious meals.

* Black pepper also helps prevent the formation of intestinal gas, promotes urination, and promotes sweating. It is full of manganese, and it also has a good amount of iron and dietary fiber, as well. Black pepper is also an antioxidant.