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eat gelatin - best is to make broths by boiling whole chickens, take the meat off when ready and then boil the remainder - take out bones you must and use remainder for a stew - Sally Fallon has great recipes and so does Dodie (spel?) that does the metabolic typing stuff though not sure if public has access to recipes.
Sally Fallon "Nourishing Traditions" has loads of great info and loads of recipes including broths (and sports drinks, healthy home made pops and beers etc). You could find broth recipes on westonaprice.org (Price Pottenger Foundation)
"Grandmother Knew Best
Science validates what our grandmothers knew. Rich homemade chicken broths help cure colds. Stock contains minerals in a form the body can absorb easily—not just calcium but also magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur and trace minerals. It contains the broken down material from cartilage and tendons--stuff like chondroitin sulphates and glucosamine, now sold as expensive supplements for arthritis and joint pain...
When broth is cooled, it congeals due to the presence of gelatin. The use of gelatin as a therapeutic agent goes back to the ancient Chinese. Gelatin was probably the first functional food, dating from the invention of the "digestor" by the Frenchman Papin in 1682...
Gelatin was universally acclaimed as a most nutritious foodstuff particularly by the French, who were seeking ways to feed their armies and vast numbers of homeless in Paris and other cities."
tells you how too
http://westonaprice.org/food-features/515-broth-is-beautiful.html
Great Lake Gelatin is a company you can order good quality gelatin from...
You can mix it in smoothies and make stews and broths etc
Some experts have told me they think you get more from the gelatin capsule around products like glucosamine and chondroitn etc than you do from the product itself...