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I love using my oven in the winter to roast just about anything. About two times per month we roast an organic chicken and then I use the carcass to make stock/broth for soups. I’ve done this for as long as I can remember and learned it from Ma McCarthy. But years ago, I never knew what a healing superfood I was making until I became a nutritionist. I’m so excited to share this information with you!

Bone broth has many benefits including:

Wonderful source of very easy-to-digest minerals including calcium, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus
Fantastic source of amino acids. If your broth congeals when it’s refrigerated you know you’ve got lots of gelatin which contains amino acids essential for healthy bones and connective tissue like tendons and ligaments.
Incredible for the building and the healing of the digestive system. Bone broth helps reduce allergies by aiding in the integrity of the gut lining
Immune boosting and anti-inflammatory

Be sure to buy organic apples when you make this. Apples are one of the most highly sprayed fruits.It doesn’t matter if they are local, I still recommend certified organic. It is especially important to choose organic if you are making this for your babe. Tiny bodies are not well-equipped to deal with pesticides.

It didn’t take very long to prep at all because I didn’t peel the apples. I recommend you don’t peel them because most of the fiber and nutrients are contained within the peel. Plus when you blend it, it really doesn’t matter because it will be smooth. And this is fine for babe too.

Homemade applesauce

Apples are a source of many different nutrients including vitamins A, C, folate and choline and minerals such as potassium, calcium and phosphorus. They are a source of soluble and insoluble fiber — you need both for good digestion and detoxification. The phytonutrients in apples are very blood sugar balancing because they

I had such good intentions to post an update on baby Vienna every month, but as you can tell I’ve gotten a little behind. Truth is, I’ve been a little busy…. as I’m sure you can imagine! Being a working mama is rewarding but it also has it’s challenges. Thankfully I have an amazing hubby who is an incredible dad and right now he’s putting Vienna to bed as I write this blog post. :)

So much has happened in the last six months that it is near impossible to summarize it all here. But you can certainly follow our adventures on instagram and Periscope! Our lives have changed dramatically — in the best way possible. There is more love in our home then I ever could imagine. And I never thought it was possible to get by on so little sleep. The sleep is getting so much better but it’s still a work in progress. I think that I will need a solid 4 weeks of good sleeps before I don’t have dark circles under my eyes any more haha! However

Happy St. Patty’s Day! In the spirit of all things green, I created this wonderfully fresh and fulfilling dessert – key lime avocado tarts! I used the Key Lime Pudding recipe from my book Joyous Health and then created a delicious tart crust for the base. You don’t need to turn on the stove or the oven because this recipe requires no baking, just perfectly ripe avocados and some whole food-based ingredients. Key Lime Avocado Tart I am super excited to be sharing this recipe with you today because I have a feeling it will become a fave with your family. Speaking of family…I can’t wait to share these tarts with baby Vienna (Note: To be clear, I do not mean this literally! When she’s older, I can’t wait to give it to her… as this has raw honey). She was watching me like a hawk as I was assembling the tarts. She’s tried avocado but we’ll have to wait a bit for this recipe. In a future post, I’m going to write all about what

From Norman Tebbit’s infamous advice to the unemployed to get on their bikes to the Plebgate row, cycling has a long history of being embroiled in British political controversy and intrigue.

So it is not surprising that Jeremy Corbyn, perhaps Labour most divisive leader in recent history, has been accused of riding a Chairman Mao bicycle – a rumour he brushed off when discussing his love of cycling in an interview with the Tour de France winner and Olympic Gold medallist Sir Bradley Wiggins, who was guest-editing BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

The Islington North MP, who took his aluminium-framed Raleigh bike along to his meeting with Wiggins, quipped:

The huge, wooden scale model of Odense, inside a temporary information centre opposite the town hall, looks initially like a replica of the Danish city. But give them a few minutes and a local would begin to spot some differences, especially to the main traffic route bisecting the urban centre. Thomas B Thriges Street was built in the 1960s as a solution to growing car congestion: a fast-moving, four-lane road laid like a curved ribbon across the middle of the city. That ribbon was first trimmed 18 months ago when a central section of the street was closed to vehicles. More is to come in the next few years, as the rest of the road is transformed into a new heart for Odense, reserved for bikes and pedestrians, and lined with shops, cafes and homes. It is the centrepiece of a hugely ambitious, and initially controversial, near-£3bn makeover for Denmark’s third-biggest city, which is attempting to revive itself from slightly struggling post-industrial area to a hi-tech hub for ed

In his Foreword to his 2013 Vision for Cycling in London, Boris Johnson candidly acknowledged that “truly mass participation” in two-wheel travel around the capital cannot be achieved unless more Londoners from those groups under represented in the city’s small but growing cycling population decide it’s better to get around by bike. He declares (on page 5) his wish for more women and older people to take up cycling, along with “more cyclists of all social backgrounds” and “more black and minority ethnic Londoners.” How might this laudable objective be achieved? It’s plain to those who wish to see that installing segregated infrastructure is not the universal answer to this question. Though safety considerations are a major factor inhibiting a lot Londoners from travelling by bike, there are also significant, specific cultural factors at work. The mayor’s Foreword didn’t mention these, but Transport for London has made a contribution to addressing them in partnership with the environmenta

Maybe it’s just the end-of-year effect, with ideas running low and a couple more commissions to fulfil. Or perhaps it’s just the traditional news lull over the festive period, obliging newspaper columnists to dig into their own experiences and prejudices. Whatever the reason, we’ve been somewhat spoiled recently with slightly silly opinion pieces about cycling.

The two that come most immediately to mind include one from this very website, a Boxing Day offering by journalist-turned author Linda Grant. Something of a classic of the “cyclists are the number one road peril!” genre, it prompted a number of complaints to me, as if somehow I get to edit or veto every Guardian article about the subject (I don’t).

Then

The debate about helmet use is too often toxic, puts off new riders and obscures more important issues, argues the founder of Vulpine

Last night I walked into a pub and spotted a guy with two empty pint glasses in front of him. He had a lovely fresh third pint poised at his trembling lips. Fantastic, just what I was looking for.

“You idiot!” I shouted as I stormed up to him, pulling the glass away and pouring the contents onto the floor with a dramatic flourish. “Stop drinking or you will die!” I walked on, chest puffed out with pride. Another liver-abuser converted. I have saved a life. This feels good!

Next stop, Colonel Chicken’s Cluck Shack. A queue of smelly teenage schoolboys in ill-fitting blazers, greasy hands tucking into breaded legs and fried potatoes. One walked out and I grabbed his oil-stained cardboard box, shaking it in his face “This filth will kill you, you fool. How DARE you eat it?”

The industrial landscape of Hong Kong informed the design of this concrete and steel side table by Italian designer Andrea Ponti. The Kanban table’s circular top has a slightly raised edged and sits on a slender rod of bent steel. The entire piece is attached to the base by a metal band, which encircles the top of its tapered concrete base. “The concept of the table was reinvented starting from the essential components of base and top and an innovative use of materials, shape, colour and layout,” said Andrea Ponti, who founded his studio in 2012. The designer aimed to “capture Hong Kong” in the furniture, and convey its architectural character and identity as a crossroads between east and west. The inclusion of steel and concrete is intended to reference the city’s historic industrial buildings, particularly its multi-storey factories that have been converted into offices. The shape of the table was based on the neon street signs that hang on steel bars over streets in the Kowloon dis