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.

Fish fillet

Tilapia Nutrition Information

Americans don't get enough health-promoting seafood in their diet, according to the publication "Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010." Eating 8 ounces of seafood a week reduces your risk of heart disease.

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Acids & Bases in Cooking

At its most elemental level, the art of cooking is about chemistry, namely how food components react with one another. Acids and bases are the foundation of these chemical reactions in food preparation.

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Top Blade Roast

Why Is Red Meat Bad for You?

Red meat offers solid nutritional benefits: It’s high in quality protein and a good source of vitamin B-12, iron and zinc. On the other hand, it’s high in saturated fat and cholesterol. You can limit unhealthy fats by choosing lean cuts of meat, but that doesn’t help other health concerns.

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Chicken Pizza Lifted Slice

How to Grill Pizza on a Smoker

With spring in the air and summer looming on the horizon, the smokers and grills are out in force. While the traditional fare of burgers, brats, dogs and barbecue create mouthwatering meals, there is a less traditional, albeit no less tasty barbecuing option.

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Black-Eyed Pea

How to Cook Dried Black Eyed Peas

Black-eyed peas traveled to the Americas and the Caribbean with slaves from their home in Africa. They are one of the world’s most widely-eaten peas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Also known as cowpeas, black-eyed peas are nutritious and cook faster than many other bean varieties.

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What Are the Health Benefits of Kosher Dill Pickles?

Kosher dill pickles are made from small cucumbers known as gherkins. Made in the traditional Jewish manner using dill, garlic and salt brine to give the characteristic mouth-puckering, sour, pungent flavor, Kosher dills have few calories and few nutrients, unless you eat them by the barrel full.

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Smoked Smoke ready to serve

How to Roast a Whole Salmon Fillet

Roasted salmon is a classic, simple dish that can be cooked for a large group or for a single person with little change in preparation methods.

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Hypothyroidism & Folic Acid

Folate, or folic acid, is an essential B vitamin that is needed for the proper formation of red blood cells and their division and DNA synthesis. This vitamin shares an important, but somewhat indirect relationship with a condition known as hypothryoidism.

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How to Toast a Sandwich in the Oven

Sandwiches are a common choice for lunches or quick dinners but cold sandwiches can get boring. Toasting a sandwich can be a tasty change. You can toast almost any type of sandwich and serve it warm or hot.

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Hainan chicken with rice

How to Steam Chicken for Healthy Eating

Chicken can be a low-fat, good source of protein, but when it's prepared in unhealthy ways, the fat content is increased due to fried coatings and creamy sauces. To retain the healthy nature of chicken, it's important that you cook it in a way that does not use extra fat.

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How to Cook a Ling Cod

Ling cod is a fish from the cod family that is found exclusively on the west coast of North America, especially near the coast of British Columbia. Ling cod are characterized by a long, single dorsal fin, a large mouth and teeth, and deep brown to dark green coloring.

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Roasted almond

How to Roast Almonds in a Microwave

Almonds make a nutritious snack or addition to recipes. An ounce of almonds contains 35 percent of your recommended daily allowance of vitamin E, plus healthy fiber and protein. Roasting brings out the flavor of nuts. You can roast almonds quickly in your microwave, with or without additional fat.

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Is Chamomile Tea Good for Constipation?

If you have difficulty passing stools or you pass infrequent hard, dry stools, you may be constipated. Constipation is a common condition that affects most people at one time or another. Bowel movements are a natural way of ridding the body of toxins.

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Fresh Apple Crumble

How to Freeze Apple Crisps

Warm and fresh from the oven with hints of cinnamon wafting through the air and enticing your taste buds to succumb to its gooey, crunchy bliss, apple crisp is hard to pass up.

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How to Prepare Beetroot Juice

Prepare beetroot juice with fresh beets and your vegetable juicer. Beetroot juice promotes brain health and lowers blood pressure, according to a study from Wake Forest University and published in a 2010 issue of the journal “Nitric Oxide: Biology and Chemistry.” Beet juice contains a high amount of nitrates.

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How to Bake Chuck Steak

Throw out everything you think you know about cooking steaks, especially chuck steaks. Chuck steaks come from the portion of beef located in the chest and front leg portion, which is naturally lean and tough. Chuck steak is basically a chuck roast cut into thinner pieces, usually 1 1/2 inches or less.

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What Depletes Iron in the Body?

Iron deficiency is the result of blood loss, your body's inability to store or use iron efficiently or because your diet is lacking in iron-rich foods. As iron stores diminish, your body loses red blood cells. Healthy red blood cells carry oxygen and other nutrients to every cell in the body.

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How to Cook Ground Beef for Spaghetti

Spaghetti with beef sauce; it's an American twist on the traditional Italian bolognese sauce. Often spotted on serving tables at church socials, in school lunchrooms and in family kitchens across the land, it's a simple and easy meal to cook.

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How to Cut Fresh Rosemary

Cut fresh rosemary from your herb garden to use its aromatic leaves in any of your chicken, fish, pork or meat dishes. The leaves this woody-stemmed plant produces are also tasty in breads, butter, soups, sauces and vegetable dishes.

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Inulin Fiber Side Effects

Fiber consists of the carbohydrates that are not broken down or absorbed by your digestive tract. Because increasing your dietary fiber can benefit your body in many ways, many manufacturers have begun to add fiber sources, such as inulin, to their products to boost the fiber content.

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