The nutritional value of white rice, including glutinous rice, is lower than whole-grain and has a high glycemic index score. Eat it only occasionally.

There are many reasons you might want to swap out oil when baking a cake. Trying to eat healthier? Did you run out of oil? If you’ve never substituted another ingredient for oil in a cake, give it a try — you may decide you like it better.

Rich in monounsaturated fats, olive oil makes a healthy addition to any diet. Drinking, or adding it to food, may help with weight loss, improve heart health and reduce pain.

Healthy cooking at home is easier and tastier than you think! Follow these pro tips from registered dietitians for easy, healthy meals you don't need a recipe for.

Pan-frying and baking in the oven are among the more common ways to cook meatballs, whether they're ground beef, chicken, pork or a combination of meats.

Marinating chicken breasts tenderizes the meat and adds flavor. So how do you bake a marinated boneless skinless chicken breast? The key is to create a tasty marinade and baking the chicken in the oven until it reaches a minimum internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit.

Wasabi peas are a crunchy snack made with dehydrated peas and wasabi seasoning. Of course, this description sounds fairly boring when you consider that wasabi peas are actually both salty and spicy -- and bursting with bold flavor.

Oven-baking is the most common way to cook any variety of lasagna. With the exception of any meat included in the recipe and the pasta, which you cook before layering with other ingredients in the baking pan, baking serves to heat the food and blend flavors rather than cook the dish to a safe level of doneness.

Also known as Thai fragrant rice or Thai Hom Mali rice, long-grained jasmine rice doubles the pleasure of eating a steaming bowl of fluffy rice because of its delicious, nutty taste and characteristic flowery aroma.

In North America, the emerging raw food movement is establishing itself as a potentially healthier alternative to a diet that increasingly consists of processed and cooked foods.

Chicken has been gaining in popularity. In fact, chicken now outranks all other animal proteins -- beef, pork, or turkey and others -- in overall consumption. When shopping for chicken, look for pasture-raised, certified organic chicken.

Americans eat an average of 61 pounds of refined, white sugar each year, according to an article in the October 2009 edition of "Discover Magazine." In recent years, interest in organic sugar has increased as more people become concerned with the potential health hazards of eating refined and processed foods.