Food & Nutrition: Culinary Techniques, Diets & Metabolic Health

Nutritional health is achieved through the therapeutic use of whole foods, safe culinary preparation, and understanding the metabolic impacts of specific dietary frameworks and ingredients.

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4 Fish Parasites That Can Make You Super Sick

You need to be wary of fish parasites, as well as bacteria, if seafood is a part of your diet. Some fish can host nasty parasites that can make you very sick by taking you up as their new living quarters.

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Should I Be Eating Soy?

It happens again and again. There is a food that the public eats โ€” one that mankind has consumed for a very long time.

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10 Foods You Don't Realize Are Packed With Sugar

Foods that you think are healthy, like yogurt, granola and instant oatmeal, are sometimes packed with added sugars. We provide a list of foods with hidden sugar that you need to watch out for.

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Pieces of chocolate on a wooden board.

The 10 Best Foods to Beat Your Sugar Cravings

Itโ€™s a fact: Sugar is not good for us, and weโ€™re hearing about how bad it is in the news, best-selling books and documentaries. Even if you cut out sweets, the sheer pervasiveness of added sugar to processed foods -- from bread to salad dressing -- makes it hard to give it up without a fight.

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The 7 Best Protein Bars and 3 to Avoid!

While many nutrition bars are wholesome snacks, some are basically junk food. We scoured supermarket shelves to find the best and the worst bars on the market. For our criteria, we looked at the ingredient list and overall calories, protein, fiber and sugar.

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