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.

Chemical Digestion of Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats

When you bite off a piece of bread and chew, you begin digestion, but you could never absorb nutrients if the process stopped there. As you continue chewing, your mouthful becomes sweet if you're eating carbohydrates because enzymes in your saliva begin to break complex carbs down into simple sugars.

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Why Is Lecithin a Good Emulsifier?

Emulsifiers keep the cream in your coffee and the dressing on your salad together. Emulsifiers such as lecithin stop oil and water from splitting. Lecithin occurs naturally. Wheatgerm and eggs contain lecithin.

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Whey Protein & Elderly Muscle Wasting

Following a good diet and getting regular exercise become even more important as you get older. Recent research indicates that a diet including good quality protein, such as whey, can help to reduce age-related muscle wasting. Dr.

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