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.

Sausage on the pan grill

How to Grill Hotdogs Without a Grill

Nearly all hot dogs come precooked, so the major steps required in the cooking process are heating them to an appetizing temperature and charring the outside as dark as you desire.

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How to Cook Lamb Burgers

Lamb meat is much more tender than beef or pork, and when the lamb is ground into a burger, you can put a whole new twist on the traditional burger process. Lamb meat gives a different flavor that you can mix with toppings you do not normally use on a burger.

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scrambled eggs

Good Foods to Eat When Cutting Weight for Wrestling

Wrestlers are some of the most weight-conscious people on the planet, because being just an ounce overweight could keep them from wrestling in a match. Many wrestlers need to cut weight to qualify for their weight class, and there are ways to do so without risking your health.

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How to Make Canned Peas Taste Good

Some people don’t enjoy vegetables’ taste -- with canned peas high on many least-favorite lists. Since vegetables are an important part of a balanced diet, look for a way to make the peas more palatable, especially for young children. A few household items can help improve canned peas’ taste.

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Ice Beverages

How Many Calories Does an ICEE Have?

ICEE is a carbonated frozen drink company based out of Ontario, California that offers several different flavors. According to the company website, cherry, blue raspberry and cola are the most popular -- all have similar amounts of calories.

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scrambled egg

How Can I Make Scrambled Eggs With Sour Cream?

Scrambled eggs are a staple of many people's diet, and one of the reasons they are widely eaten is the different ways you can customize your dish. The eggs provide a fairly basic template to which you can add different ingredients, such as cheese, salsa or sour cream.

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Mother and daughter (13-15) on sofa sharing popcorn, laughing

How to Reheat Popped Popcorn

You can make popcorn in several different ways, including on the stove, over a campfire, or perhaps the most common way, in the microwave.

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Grilled steak and baked potato

How to Cook a Steak Medium Well in an Electric Skillet

If weather, location or the fact that you don't own a grill is keeping you from cooking steak, you can cook the meat from the convenience of your kitchen on an electric skillet. The meat will not have the grill lines that may leave the steak aesthetically pleasing, but the skillet can still cook your food thoroughly.

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Fries on a plate

How to Prepare French Fries in a Convection Oven

Convection ovens use fans to circulate hot air throughout the interior of the oven to cook the food more thoroughly and uniformly. For this reason, the food also cooks more quickly, retaining more moisture and losing fewer nutrients.

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The Calories in Vodka Cruisers

Vodka Cruisers have an alcohol content of 4.8 percent. Each bottle contains about the same amount of alcohol as a shot. There are a variety of fruity flavors such as raspberry and lemon. There are also sugar-free flavors, which have fewer calories.

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Cocktail on bar

Calories & Carbohydrates in Mixed Drinks

When ordering a mixed drink at a bar or restaurant, it is good to know what the nutrition facts are for whatever you are ordering. Drinks have a variety of different alcohol and mixers, making for a wide range of calories and carbohydrates.

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The Calories in Fruit Wine

Most wines are made from grapes, but you can use many different kinds of fruit to make wine as well. Elderberries, blueberries, plums and strawberries, among other fruits, can be used to produce a different kind of wine once it ferments, often with lower calories.

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thick burger with blue cheese and sweet potato fries

Calories in Pub Food

Many different pubs and bars offer food to go with your beer or cocktail, such as burgers, chicken wings, fries, onion rings and nachos. Often, these foods have too much salt or are deep-fried, which makes them high in calories.

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Peppermint candies

Calories in Hard Candies

Hard candies come in an assortment of flavors, ranging from types of mint to fruit varieties to root beer and butterscotch. Despite the wide array of hard candies, many have very similar amounts of calories.

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How Many Calories are in Southern Comfort?

Southern Comfort is a sweet bourbon flavored liqueur that originated in New Orleans. Southern Comfort has a higher congener content than clear alcohol, so it is more likely to cause a hangover, according to the Mayo Clinic website.

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How Many Calories Are in a Corona?

Corona is a Mexican brand of beer that has been produced since 1925. Corona Extra is the original type of beer in this brand, but Corona Light is a popular version as well.

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Salted Roasted Shelled Peanuts

Shelled Peanuts: Nutrition Facts

Peanuts are a healthy snack because they provide unsaturated fats, omega-3 fatty acids, L-arginine, fiber, vitamin E and plant sterols, which are good for your heart, according to MayoClinic.com. But 80 percent of a nut is comprised of fat, so eat them in moderation.

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