Hmmm – this is little more than an advertising feature promoting the benefits of their “bone broth†pots for sale – under the auspices of an article about health!! Well it is in the diet section after all!
This sort of thing really gets my goat – I mean – it's STOCK for goodness sake – on which most people of my generation were brought up - with their mothers making it from old bones! Only those who have been seduced by widely available convenience foods due to our modern, hurried, and wasteful lifestyle – will find this a novelty! I can't bear these gimmicky names for things where an old idea is re-packaged as some wonderful new discovery! It's like trends for kale and berries etc – at least they don't have another name... oh actually I forgot – they're “superfoodsâ€!!! Another one that irritates me is calling restaurant food “pan-fried†to dress up a dish where the main ingredient is fried – I mean where else would it be fried?
Anyway I digress - it is great to bring people's attention to the appalling waste of food that is prevalent in our society and to promote cooking from scratch which of course includes making stock! We have always made stock – I always have it in the freezer and use it to make soup which I live on for lunch from October to April/May as it is a wonderful filling low-calorie food and a great nutritious aid in keeping your weight down. We roast our chicken bones and carcass after removing the meat (don't often roast other meats but make lamb stock out of lamb when we occasionally have it too) – and that makes for a much tastier stock/soup than just boiling it all up.
I'm sure there may are health benefits from stock – but as the article says there is no scientific evidence to support their claims – and as long as we eat a wide-ranging diet of fresh ingredients this can only be of benefit to us. There is no need to buy their pots of it though and in fact far better to make your own!
As for the fibromyalgia claim – well of course homeopathy won't work, and the article does not mention that she had any hormones tests nor tried a hormonal solution – HRT – oestrogen? Testosterone? Thyroid? I wonder if she had a full endocrine screening and treatment before deciding to make and then sell stock!!!!
I sincerely hope that fibromyalgia sufferers don't all rush out to buy this stock on this basis of this advert!!
Rant over....
Hurdity x
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Topic: Telegraph article, 'Bone broth helped my aching joints'. (Read 3756 times)