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.
While microwaving your eggs will cook them within a few minutes, you'll have to do so out of the shell. The good thing about microwaved hard-boiled eggs is that you won't have to peel or possibly even boil them, but they won't look the way a normal hard boiled egg would.
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Tea comes in many varieties, including red tea and green tea. Technically, to be classified tea it must come from the Camellia sinensis plant. However, several drinks people call tea, including red tea, do not come from this plant. How the plant is grown, harvested and processed will give the tea its characteristics.
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A whole filet mignon – also called a beef tenderloin roast – is a lean cut of premium beef and one of the most tender cuts of beef you can cook. Lean cuts of meat have less than 10 percent fat and are ideally suited for dry cooking methods like roasting.
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Vitamin and nutrients work synergistically to promote health. Vitamin B-6, or pyridoxine and B-12, or cobalamin, are two equally important B vitamins necessary for proper body function. They are part of eight B vitamins known as B complex that work together to help your body perform a variety of functions.
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If you must have a cookie from time to time, a ginger snap is among your best options, compared to other varieties such as chocolate chip or sugar cookies. Most ginger snaps are lower in fat and sugar than other types of cookies, and you'll also get a good dose of certain vitamins and minerals, as well.
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White cabbage is your standard variety of green cabbage that's been cut by the grower and buried in trenches to protect the heads from freezing. This technique, which is used in colder regions, is known as blanching and allows the grower to provide cabbage all winter long.
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Fiber is an important part of digestive health and can also reduce your risk for serious conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. Like most fruits, pumpkin contains a good dose of fiber.
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Chicken is a versatile meat that can be cooked numerous ways to achieve different flavors. You can either cook the whole chicken, half of the chicken or chicken pieces.
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Starches are complex carbohydrates in some foods, and no carbohydrate-free foods contain starches. Carbohydrate-containing foods might be free from starch if their carbohydrates are from sugars.
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Making a double or triple batch of pulled pork isn't any harder than making a single batch. Pulled pork is typically prepared in a slow cooker, shredded apart and smothered with barbecue sauce. You can freeze the excess of a double or triple batch for future meals.
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A small, 1.2 pound, beef rump roast can be baked in the oven with delicious results. Since this is a small roast, the time required for cooking will be shortened. Rump roasts come from the rear, or hind, of the cow and tend to be a tough cut of meat; therefore, you should bake this roast using moist heat.
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Cooking for a large crowd may seem overwhelming, but if you do it in the oven as opposed to your stove top, it is a simple process. Your cooking time will vary depending on what type of rice you use. Typically, brown rice takes twice as long as white rice to cook, but it is also more nutritious.
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Eating only fruits and veggies sounds great in theory. After all, most Americans get less than half of the government-recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables every day, and such foods are packed with nutrients that our bodies need.
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Although reheating steak to 165 degrees Fahrenheit prevents foodborne illnesses, how you bring it to 165 F affects the quality. You want the steak to reach 165 F while retaining as much moisture as possible and without changing the texture of the meat, which makes the oven your best choice.
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Lightheadedness is a condition commonly associated with dizziness, faintness, loss of balance, nausea, vomiting, visual disturbances, fatigue, mental confusion and a sensation that the room is moving or spinning.
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Gout occurs when excess uric acid in your blood forms crystals that accumulate around a joint, causing a painful arthritic condition. Because uric acid is formed from the breakdown of purines, people with gout commonly follow a low-purine diet.
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Although oils and fats don't have their own food group in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ChooseMyPlate dietary guidelines, the department still recommends including some oil in your diet each day. Women should aim for the equivalent of 5 teaspoons daily, while men should consume 6 teaspoons.
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French toast is a classic breakfast treat. White bread is a perfect choice for use in French toast recipes as it has a light taste which allows the egg and syrup flavors to stand out. The lightness of the white bread also helps it toast easier.
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Protein is found in every cell, tissue and organ in the human body and is necessary for optimal functioning. Protein is a macronutrient, and therefore provides the body with energy. It is constantly being broken down, digested and replaced by dietary sources.
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Start your day with a bowl of steel-cut oats and set yourself up for dietary success. A 2013 issue of the "Journal of the American College of Nutrition"
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