Have you seen the new Netflix doc on identical twins and diet? Well, spoiler alert, I’m talking about it today! PLUS…

🍽️ The 8 BEST Foods for healthy bones!

🍽️ Souped-Up Roasted Asparagus with Truffle Cheese!

🍽️ Identical Twin Research Demonstrates Health Benefits of Fermented Foods and Plant-Based Eating

🍽️ WHOLE roasted cauliflower, spiced with Pimentón!

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The 8 BEST Foods for healthy bones!

The National Health Service in the UK outlines a list of foods that contain calcium and Vitamin D, two critical components needed for healthy bones.

Here are some foods listed by the NHS that are high in calcium and recommended for bone health:

1. Milk, cheese, and other dairy products

2. Green leafy vegetables, but not spinach*

3. Soy beans

4. Tofu

5. Plant-based drinks (like soy milk) with added calcium

6. Nuts

7. Bread, or anything made with fortified flour

8. Tiny fish where you eat the bones, such as sardines

*Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium, while certain compounds such as oxalate reduce your ability to absorb this mineral. Spinach is high in calcium, but also high in oxalate.

The Cooking Corner

FREE RECIPE for Souped-Up Roasted Asparagus with Truffle Cheese!

I’ve never actually bought fresh truffle to use at home—it’s a bit outside of my grocery shopping budget and my wife would be mad at me. This recipe calls for a tiny quantity of truffle-infused cheese.  

Truffle cheese is expensive, but won’t break your bank if you buy a very small wedge.  If you can’t find a small piece of truffle cheese at your local cheese shop, you can substitute by adding in a bit of truffle paste, high-quality truffle oil, or truffle-infused finishing salt.

Ingredients: 

• 1 large bunch of small asparagus, ends trimmed off

• 1 Tablespoon olive oil

• ½ teaspoon Kosher salt

• 1 oz (about 30g) Pecorino truffle cheese, or other hard truffle cheese

• A few grinds of fresh black pepper

Instructions: 

1. Preheat the oven to 450˚F.

2. Trim the ends off the asparagus.

3. Spread the trimmed asparagus out evenly on a parchment paper-lined sheet tray.

4. Drizzle the asparagus with olive oil.

5. Sprinkle some Kosher salt on the asparagus.

6. Use a Microplane to very finely grate the truffle cheese on top of the asparagus.

7. Roast in the oven at 450˚F for roughly 10 minutes.

Enjoy! Find more recipes here!

What’s On?

Check Out This NEW Netflix Documentary: “We Are What We Eat”!

The fascinating 4-part series follows 21 pairs of identical twins, where one twin from each pair was required to switch to a vegan diet, while the other twin was asked to follow a healthy omnivorous diet.

Researchers looked at the effect of these diets on several factors, including:

1. Microbial gut bacteria

2. Building lean muscle

3. Reducing fat, including visceral fat

4. Libido

5. Inflammation

6. Telomere length on DNA strands (a measure of aging)

While more work needs to be done in these areas, many participants who switched to a plant-based diet experienced the following positive health outcomes:

• Improved gut microbiome health

• Fat loss, including visceral fat loss

• Reduce measures of inflammation in the body

• Longer DNA telomere length

• Notably higher libido

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Upgrade your plate…

With a WHOLE roasted cauliflower, spiced with Pimentón!

I’ve got a buddy named Rocky who lives in Gijon, Spain.  He is one of the best non-professionally-trained home cooks I’ve ever met—he introduced me the spiced nuts recipe from last week’s newsletter!  

About a year ago, he showed me a photo of an entire head of cauliflower that he had dusted with smoked pimentón and roasted whole in the oven with olive oil.  It was so beautiful, and I got jealous that I had never attempted it before—so here you go!

• Preheat your oven to 390˚F.

• Trim the excess protruding root end off of the head of cauliflower, so the cauliflower sits flat on its base.

• Gently boil the whole head of cauliflower in salted simmering water for roughly 8 minutes, to soften the cauliflower before it goes into the oven.

*You can skip this boiling step and simply roast the whole cauliflower in the oven from the start, although it will take about twice as long to cook.

• Once boiled for 8 minutes, drain the cauliflower from the water.

• Place the partially-cooked cauliflower on a sheet tray that is lined with parchment paper.

• Coat the cauliflower in a generous quantity (3 Tablespoons) of cooking olive oil, and sprinkle on some sweet and smoked pimentón (about a teaspoon or two of each type), along with some Kosher salt.

• Rub the pimentón into the outside florets of the cauliflower.

• Roast the cauliflower for 30-40 minutes, basting with some of the pimentón-infused olive oil every fifteen minutes.

• Remove from the oven and enjoy. You can even slice the cauliflower head into thick “steaks”, and pan-fry the wedges on both sides.

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