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.

Homemade Chocolate Cake

Cake When Pregnant

Cravings during pregnancy may cause you to want sweets such as cake and candy. While an occasional sweet treat is not problematic, too much of a good thing can be bad. Your diet is especially important when you are pregnant and most cakes offer little in the way of nutritional value.

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French baguettes

Baking Soda & Yeast Allergy

If you enjoy baked goods but have a yeast allergy do not despair – you can substitute a formulation that contains baking soda instead when making breads, rolls and other baked goods. Also seek “quickbread” recipes that call for baking soda and eschew the use of yeast.

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Asian man eating rice with chopsticks

Rice, Coconut Milk and Aloe Vera for Gastritis

Whether acute or chronic, the indigestion and pain associated with gastritis may lead you to make changes to your diet. Separately, rice, coconut milk and aloe vera may offer some relief, from ease of digestion to possibly protecting the lining of your stomach.

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Fried Pork Skin - pork snack

Low-Carb Pork Rinds & Dip

You find pork rinds in many national cuisines -- in Canada, they're called "scrunchions," in the Southern U.S. they're "cracklings" and to the Brits they're known as "scratchings." Whatever you call them, they're pork fat, fried and salted, to make a crispy, addicting snack.

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Seafood

Seafood and Headaches

Painful headaches that develop soon after you eat seafood might be more than just a coincidence. Eating seafood can be a trigger for headaches, particularly if the food contains toxins or unhealthy chemicals.

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Beef pot roast

Cutting Pot Roast on the Diagonal

Pot roast is a traditional type of family meal that is easy to prepare in your oven or slow-cooker. Once your roast is fully cooked, you'll need to slice it prior to serving. Cutting the pot roast on the diagonal or bias means that you slice against the grain at an angle.

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Seafood stew with linguine and clams

Tips to Cook Pasta With White Wine

Many delicious pasta dishes call for a sauce made with white wine. For a successful meal, you have to do more than pour cooking wine over boiled spaghetti. Add white wine early on in the cooking process to balance it against other ingredients and create the best flavor in your final product.

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Natural cleaners. Vinegar, baking soda, salt and lemon.

Baking Soda & Vitamin C for Food Allergy

A true food allergy can cause you to go into anaphylactic shock when you ingest the substance to which you’re allergic. Symptoms can be life-threatening and require emergency treatment. In less severe reactions, supplements may reduce your milder symptoms.

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Bunch of fresh organic beets with tops

Eating Beets Before a Workout

Eating properly before a workout helps enhance your energy and performance. While the proper type of food prevents hunger and fatigue, the wrong food can cause digestive distress. Beets are a nutritious vegetable that you can enjoy either raw or cooked.

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Vegetables in farmer's market of France

What Foods Are High in Butyrate?

Butyrate is the ester or salt of butyric acid with fruity odor and low water solubility. Butyrate salts can be prepared by distillation of certain essential oils extracted from the vegetables, or from synthetic butyric acid derivatives.

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Casseroled Chicken

Cooking Frozen Chicken With Rice in a Cooker

Cooking frozen chicken with rice in a cooker requires minimal effort to achieve a healthy and wholesome meal. The type of cooker that you choose will determine how long the cooking process takes. Despite this, you will have to defrost your frozen chicken prior to placing it in the cooker with the rice.

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Homemade chocolate blackout cake with a cut piece

Is Mousse Cake Safe During Pregnancy?

During pregnancy, many women take extra care to eat a more nutritious diet. They often avoid foods that may harm the developing fetus, such as alcohol, excessive amounts of sugars or caffeine, fish that may contain mercury, and some dairy products.

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low angle view of male athlete crossing the finish line

The Best Time to Take L-Citrulline

L-citrulline, often referred to as simply citrulline, is an amino acid first isolated in 1930 in watermelon. Your body produces citrulline, so it isn't considered an essential amino acid that you must get from your diet. However, body builders and athletes may take it as a supplement to enhance aerobic performance.

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Cottage cheese

How to Know When Ricotta Cheese Is Spoiled

Ricotta cheese, like cottage cheese and cream cheese, is high in moisture and spoils more quickly than hard cheeses. Use it promptly because it only stays fresh for a week or two. If the cheese doesn't look or smell like it did when you first opened it, your best course of action is to throw it out.

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Grilled salmon and green beans

How Long Does It Take for the Ketosis Diet to Work?

When it comes to weight loss, everyone wants rapid results. A ketosis diet, better known as a ketogenic diet or low-carb diet, helps you lose weight by forcing your body to burn fat for energy instead of carbs, causing you to go into a state of ketosis.

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Coconut oil, essential oil, organic cosmetic

Does Coconut Oil Lose Nutritional Value When Heated?

While olive and canola oil often steal the show in terms of healthy fats, you might be overlooking coconut oil as a healthful option. Despite its high saturated fat content, coconut oil has made headway by offering a number of health benefits.

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Cookies.

Baking Cookies With Butter Vs. Cream Cheese

Many low-fat cookie recipes substitute cream cheese for butter. If you aren't following a recipe, you can experiment on your own with substituting cream cheese for some or all of the butter.

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Omelette fried eggs with vegetables

How to Cook an Egg for Getting Ripped

Adding eggs to your daily diet can help you get ripped if you have a vigorous workout regimen. Eggs are rich in protein -- an essential nutrient to help build muscle tissue. Even though consuming an egg here and there can be beneficial for your physique, you may get bored with eating the same dish every day.

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Almond milk

Substituting With Almond Milk for Baking

Vegans, people who are lactose intolerant and those allergic to the dairy protein casein can enjoy baked treats that call for cow's milk by replacing it with almond milk, which can be purchased or made fresh at home.

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