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.

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9 Simple Swaps to Upgrade Your Breakfast

Are you in a breakfast rut? If you’re tired of eating the same cold cereal, oatmeal or toast every morning, then it’s time to get a little adventurous. Banish breakfast boredom by upgrading your morning meal with these nine delicious and simple swaps.

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The 7 Best Protein Bars and 3 to Avoid!

While many nutrition bars are wholesome snacks, some are basically junk food. We scoured supermarket shelves to find the best and the worst bars on the market. For our criteria, we looked at the ingredient list and overall calories, protein, fiber and sugar.

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11 Food-Safety Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making

You wash your hands before cooking and don’t cut raw vegetables and raw meat on the same cutting board. That’s basically all you need to know about food safety, right? Wrong. One out of every six Americans gets food poisoning each year, and those are just the ones who report it.

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10 High-Protein Snacks You Can Eat on the Go

Have you ever come home from work and polished off a bag of potato chips while cooking a healthy dinner? Felt the midday slump? Had trouble losing weight or gaining muscle? The problem may lie in your snacks -- or lack thereof.

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16 Tips to Pack a Healthier and Safer Picnic

There’s nothing like eating outdoors with your feet in the grass, leaving walls, ceilings and shoes behind. But picnics also pose challenges, like how to prep healthy fare that will please a crowd, and how to keep food cold without the convenience of a kitchen. The solution?

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15 Tips to Store Your Food So It Will Last Longer

Have you ever opened a crisper drawer to find wilting herbs, soggy onions or a lifeless tomato? Tossed out sprouted potatoes, rancid flax meal, dried-up garlic or suspicious eggs? Here's how you should store your food so it will last longer.

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Win at Weeknight Dinners With These 10 Shortcuts

Cooking dinner can be daunting. You get home from work, you’re tired and you really just want to throw on pajamas, order pizza and watch Netflix. Unfortunately, all that takeout is doing us in.

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