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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Ways to Use Up Carrot Juice

An important source of vitamin A, the carrot is a favorite ingredient for juicing enthusiasts. Your local food store may stock carrot juice near tomato juice and vegetable juice blends.

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What Are The Effects of Eating Too Much Vitamin C?

Also known as ascorbic acid, vitamin C is an antioxidant and needed nutrient for your body to perform its daily functions. Because vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, your body does not store it or make it, so you must take in enough each day to meet your nutritional needs.

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How to Cook Frozen Mushrooms

Mushrooms aren't just for salad bars or topping burgers anymore. Mushrooms, besides being delicious, offer surprising nutritional benefits, containing copper, potassium, B vitamins, and selenium.

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How Do I Grill Vegetables on a Foreman Grill?

The George Foreman grill works as a contact grill. This means that the machine's hot metal parts grill the food from both sides, much like a sandwich toaster. Vegetables can be cooked in the George Foreman machine. However, as Andrea Chesman points out in "The New Vegetarian Grill,"

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How to Cook a Barbecue Pork Loin Roast in a Crock-Pot

Crock-Pot cooking has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, and healthier slow cooker recipes are popping up all over the Internet. Crock-Pot cooking saves you time, as you can throw your ingredients into the pot and leave them, returning to a fully cooked meal.

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Differences Between Vitamin K1 & K2

Vitamin K is an essential micronutrient found in certain foods and nutritional supplements. Best known for its critical role in blood platelet function, this compound owes its common name to the German term, “Koagulationsvitamin.” Two basic forms of vitamin K -- K1 and K2 -- are used in medicine and human nutrition.

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How to Cook a Pork Shoulder Picnic-Style

Pork shoulder meat is a less expensive, fattier pork cut that when smoked tastes much like ham. The term picnic style is a standard descriptor for pork shoulder because many actually consider it a casual dining or picnic alternative to ham.

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How to Cook Cased Deer Sausage

Venison is a lean and well-flavored meat, much lower in saturated fats than mainstream alternatives such as beef and lamb. That makes it a fine choice for grilling or slow-cooking, but venison alone is too lean to make a decent sausage.

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How to Cut an Onion for Shish Kabobs

Onions are a delicious addition to shish kabobs, and for the most tasty results, these aromatic vegetables must be properly cut. Evenly chopping your onions ensures that they will cook at the same rate -- no one wants to bite into a kabob with half its onions burnt while the rest are undercooked.

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How to Brine a Boneless Turkey Breast

Just like whole turkeys, boneless turkey breasts come in a variety of sizes, ranging from about 2 to 3 pounds to more than 20 pounds. No matter the size, a benefit of the breast is that it takes less time to cook than a comparable whole turkey.

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Healthy Cooking Sprays

Almost every "healthy" recipe calls for a cooking spray to coat the pan, but the aerosol method of application may make you suspicious. Cooking sprays are considered completely safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and rumors that they contain carcinogens are unfounded.

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Different Ways to Eat Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese is a very healthy way to sneak in some dairy and protein to your meal. The American Heart Association recommends eating two to three servings of low-fat or no-fat dairy per day. To keep it low-fat and low-calorie, pick the cottage cheese made from 1 percent or nonfat milk.

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Bread

Rye Bread Vs. Multigrain Bread

Dietary guidelines developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recommend making grains a daily part of your diet. Eating two ounces of either multigrain or rye bread boosts your grain intake, so that you can reach the recommended daily intake of 7 ounces for men and 6 for women.

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How to Make Brown Gravy Beef Stew

Brown gravy beef stew is a rich, hearty dish perfect for any night of the week. Big chunks of beef simmer in thick gravy with plenty of vegetables to create a decadent meal in a bowl.

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Chicken and broccoli stir fry

What is a Healthy Way to Make Chicken Stir Fry?

Healthy chicken stir fry starts with boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Compared to other chicken parts, boneless skinless breast meat has the fewest calories, fat and cholesterol. When combined with other healthy ingredients, you can make a healthy stir fry meal.

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How to Cook Cubed Potatoes in a Microwave

The microwave makes it much easier and faster to cook cubed potatoes, whether you want to prepare an entire potato dish in the microwave or add the potatoes to a dish to be baked, boiled or fried.

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How to Cook or Prepare Dried Navy Beans

Navy beans, also known as pea beans, are one legume that even infrequent bean eaters have experience with. They're the traditional bean used in baked beans and in the classic French dish cassoulet.

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How to Broil Pork Loin

Broiling is a healthy cooking method, letting you prepare pork loin without added fat and calories from oil or butter. It's also quick and relatively hand-off, so even novice cooks can pull it off successfully with little opportunity for error.

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How to Mash Avocado

Mashed avocados are good for more than just guacamole. Their creamy texture and rich flavor is perfect for making pasta sauces or even for use as a spread on toast, and if you start with the right avocado, mashing it is a cinch.

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