In a message dated 7/18/01 5:57:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< You can make bone broth by roasting bones
 and then adding water and cooking them (best with some lemon juice or
 vinegar added to the water) for hours. The calcium leaches into the broth,
 which tastes delicious and can be used for soups, pot roasts, etc. >>

This is how most traditional native peoples get their calcium and other
minerals. Also fish stocks, using all the fish bones, are highly nutritious.
We just do not see these things anymore - I asked my fishmonger (yes, I
actually found one), what he did with the fish bones and heads -- just throws
them away, he said..

Charles
San Diego, CA