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 not eating enough calories in one day can make your stomach hurt, not eating enough over a long period of time -- weeks or months -- can have harmful effects on your body. Your body requires certain nutrients to stay healthy and keep your muscles working and your bones strong.
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Sugar-free candy, nutrition bars, cookies, cakes and other sweets might be sugar-free, but they do contain sugar substitutes, many of which can cause diarrhea, especially sugar alcohols.
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Amaretto is a smooth liqueur that can be mixed with juice, soda, coffee or other liquors.This sweet, amber-colored mixer hails from Saronno, Italy. It is known as an almond-flavored liqueur, but is in fact made largely from apricot kernels, which have an almond-like scent.
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If preparing food were education, cooking would be liberal arts and baking would be hard science. When it comes to making cookies, cakes and pies, you need to be precise in both ingredient measurements and preparation technique.
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Creatine kinase is also known as creatine phosphokinase or phosphocreatine kinase. An enzyme involved in the synthesis and use of energy-providing molecules, it's predominantly found in the cells of the heart, skeletal muscles and brain.
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An omelet is a protein-rich dish that can also supply fiber, potassium and vitamin C, depending on what ingredients you add to the eggs. The butter usually used to cook the omelet adds a good deal of saturated fat to the final product.
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Shaped similar to an egg or pear, small white eggplant features a creamy texture and delicate flavor. Low in calories and high in vitamins and nutrients, eggplant is an excellent addition to any meal or side dish.
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Avoid boiling your kale, which may leech nutrients from the vegetable. Steam it with the help of a soup pot and a colander if you don't have a steamer handy.
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You’re craving some milk chocolate, but all you have is a bag of semisweet baking chocolate chips in the cupboard. You might wonder how you can turn that semisweet baking chocolate into milk chocolate. The good news is that, with a little creativity, it can be done, and quite simply.
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Celery got its reputation as the ideal diet food from its low calorie content: A single cup of raw celery has just 16 calories. It is also cholesterol-free, contains only a trace amount of fat and has a high concentration of essential nutrients like vitamin K, vitamin A and fluoride.
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Filet mignon is the most tender cut of beef, and you pay for the privilege of it gracing your plate. It's not a particularly flavorful cut, though, due to its lack of fat marbling. Of course, that translates to less saturated fat, cholesterol and calories, which is a good thing.
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With their sweet taste, distinctive smell and bright yellow color, bananas boast a wide variety of uses from food source to medicinal purposes.
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Using a slow cooker has many benefits, including the convenience of knowing that dinner is cooking while you are engaged with other tasks. Slow cookers use less electricity and gives off less heat than an oven.
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Freshly baked bread without a loaf pan? No problem. Bread dough can easily be formed into a variety of shapes, including rolls, wreaths and braids, and baked on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Braiding pieces of bread dough is an easy way to produce a loaflike shape with a special twist.
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Skirt steak is known for its strong beefy flavor and is typically found in Mexican fajitas and Philadelphia, or Philly, cheesesteak sandwiches. Compared to strip or rib eye steaks, skirt steak generally costs about 50 percent less. Keep in mind it tends to toughen up if it's cooked to more than medium doneness.
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Your body is a tapestry of thousands of different proteins. Your skin, muscles, organs and even your fat cells contain protein. Your dietary protein intake supports the formation and maintenance of all of these proteins.
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Hearty chili serves as comfort food in many homes, and everyone has their own favorite recipe. Beans are one of the star ingredients in many versions, although some people prefer their chili without beans. Kidney beans are the most commonly used beans in chili, although many other types can be used as well.
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Buffalo Wild Wings is a typical wing restaurant that offers chicken wings in a variety of flavors, in addition to side orders such as fries, potato wedges and fried mozzarella sticks. The restaurant also offers burgers, sandwiches, shrimp, ribs and desserts.
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Bacardi mixers can be found in your grocer's freezer, usually next to the frozen juice concentrate. With flavors like pina colada, strawberry daiquiri and margarita, the mixers streamline the process of making fruity, frosty mixed drinks so you can whip up a batch and get back to the party.
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Knackwurst, also known as knockwurst, is a preboiled, fully cooked German sausage typically made from ground beef, pork or a combination and heavily seasoned with garlic. When heated, the outer casing of knackwurst becomes crispy, giving it a texture different from other sausages such as bratwurst.
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