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.

Freshly squeezed juices

Juice Fasting and Constipation

In moderation, fresh juice can be a nutritious addition to your diet. It's a concentrated source of essential vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals that can help you meet your recommended intake of fruits and vegetables. In the long term, however, juice fasting is not a healthy approach to nutrition.

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Toast Bread Recipes

How to Replace Butter With Peanut Butter

Although it's creamy and delicious, butter is a rich source of saturated fat. This is the type that can raise levels of unhealthy LDL cholesterol and increase your risk of heart disease. The American Heart Association recommends limiting your saturated fat intake to no more than 5 or 6 percent of your daily calories.

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Margareta cocktail

Nutrition Facts for Skinny Margarita

As its name implies, a skinny margarita is a lower-calorie version of a regular margarita. This is a great option for those who want don't want to stop imbibing while trying to lose weight.

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Freshly baked apple muffins with oat flakes

Oat & Rice Allergies

Rice and oats aren't on the list of most common food allergens. Those spots go to milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soybeans. But that doesn't mean that an allergic reaction can't happen. People can have allergic reactions to all sorts of foods, and those reactions can be quite serious.

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street market garlic

Raw Garlic & Bloating

You've likely heard that garlic has health benefits, including the ability to lower cholesterol and reduce high blood pressure. What you may not know is that how garlic is prepared matters. Raw garlic is the best source of the antioxidants responsible for the vegetable's health benefits.

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Fruitarian Meal Plan

Steve Jobs was a famous fruitarian, someone who eats primarily raw fruit. Some fruitarians will also eat nuts and seeds, but all dieters of this type eschew vegetables, grains and animal products.

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Chili

Lemon Water & Cayenne Pepper Detox

Some people will try almost anything to lose weight, including drinking lemon juice and cayenne pepper. Lemon juice and cayenne peppers are major components of the Master Cleanse, also known as the lemonade diet. Laxatives are recommended morning and evening to encourage bowel movements.

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Close up of Raw Organic Lucuma Powder

How to Keep Protein Powder Fresh

Protein powder, used by bodybuilders, vegans and anyone looking to boost their protein intake, often comes in large tubs that can take some people one year or more to use. Protein powder is a dry food and has a fairly stable shelf life.

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Whole ginger and slices

Is Raw Ginger Acidic or Alkaline?

A mainstay of Asian cuisine, ginger has long been celebrated for its healing effects. It has been used to treat colds, flus, headaches and menstrual symptoms, and has the potential to prevent cancer, according to a review published in "International Journal of Preventive Medicine" in April 2013.

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curly kale

Good Foods & Drinks to Calm a Bad Gallbladder

Gallbladder disease, gallstones and gallbladder attack can all cause painful symptoms that ebb and flow. You can survive without your gallbladder, a pear-shaped organ situated underneath your liver, so your doctor may recommend removal if it frequently causes you pain.

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Hemp seeds or hemp nuts are a high-protein food source

How Much Hemp Protein Should You Take in a Day?

Hemp protein, from the seeds of the hemp plant, serves as a high-quality alternative for vegetarians and those who suffer from lactose intolerance or dairy allergy. Even if you don't fall into this category, hemp protein is a valuable addition to any active person's diet, athlete and author Brendan Brazier told "Shape"

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Cooked rice in bowl with scoop, high angle view

Brown Rice for Diarrhea

Everyone experiences diarrhea at some point, and no one likes to talk about it. A passing case of loose stool can often be treated at home with over-the-counter medications, and a temporary change in your diet can also be useful. Rice is one of the foods often recommended to help treat diarrhea.

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Fish Jelly

Amino Acids in Fish, Poultry and Beef

Amino acids are the building blocks of protein, which your body uses to make new tissues and repair damaged tissues, and protein-rich foods like fish, poultry and beef are some of the best sources. The amino acid profiles of animal foods vary, with some being higher in certain amino acids than others.

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Why Do Vitamins Make You Sick?

Although it's best to get all the nutrients you need through a well-rounded, nutritious diet, it may be necessary to take vitamins if you are deficient in certain nutrients. Those vitamins are supposed to make you feel better, relieving any symptoms of a deficiency you may have been experiencing.

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Leftovers for Lunch

How Hard Is It to Digest Beef?

Humans have evolved to eat meat, including beef, so the human body comes equipped with specialized enzymes that break down the tough proteins and fats in beef. But beef is harder for the body to digest than plant foods, because it's entirely protein and fat.

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salad with arugula, spinach, tomatoes and eggs.

What Foods Help an Endomorph Lose Weight?

You put on weight easily, have a high body fat percentage and have a hard time shedding fat -- you're an endomorph, one of the three body types in addition to ectomorphs and mesomorphs. Losing weight as an endomorph can be tough, but it's not impossible.

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Homemade Natural Appetite Suppressant

The supplement industry makes millions of dollars each year selling appetite-suppressing pills to people who want to lose weight. Instead of spending your hard-earned cash, though, you can get hunger-curbing help from foods and drinks you may already have at home.

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