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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Skin Rashes From Vitamin B12

Your body needs vitamin B12 for neurological function and the production of red blood cells. You may develop a skin rash if you take B12 supplements or if you're B12 deficient.

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Oil Vs. Capsule Forms of Fish Oil

As study after study documents the mental, cognitive and physical benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, fish oil supplements, which are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, have steadily grown in use, surpassing even multivitamins in popularity, according to the February 2011 “Orlando Sentinel.

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Are Kidney Beans Healthy for Kidneys?

Similar to the kidney in shape and color, kidney beans provide a variety of minerals and vitamins, and so are generally beneficial for your health. If your kidneys are healthy, kidney beans can -- when consumed as part of a balanced diet -- contribute to your kidney health.

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How Much Caffeine Is in Crystal Light?

Crystal Light offers low-calorie drinks in powdered form you mix for yourself and also offers ready-to-drink beverages packaged in various-sized cartons. Whether you’re trying to lose weight or maintain weight, good hydration helps to keep your stomach full and quell your hunger pangs.

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How to Cook Top Round Oven Roast

Top round roasts come from the hind quarter of the steer, and those muscles get well worked. Consequently, top round roasts are lean and full-flavored, but lacking fat and marbling, they don’t tenderize quickly. Cook your top round oven roast slowly with a low heat.

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How to Pan Fry Sirloin Steak

For most people, sirloin steak is not an everyday meal. One of the more economical prime cuts of beef, sirloin steak offers a flavorful break from ground beef, chicken and other daily fare. It comes from the upper, forward part of the rear hip, so the muscles got a fair workout moving the steer about.

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Still Life with slices of smoked meat

How to Cook Thin Sliced Steak

Thin-sliced steaks are available in many grocery stores and butcher shops. Sold in packages with four to six steaks, they’re usually labeled as breakfast, sandwich, wafer or minute steaks. This small, lean, boneless cut of meat comes from the eye of round steak.

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How to Cook a Round Steak Cut of Meat

Round steak comes from the hindquarter of the steer, a part of the animal that gets a lot of use. This makes round steak lean, with little marbling or fat to tenderize it during dry cooking.

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Beef steak

How to Cook Tenderloin Steak on the Stove

Tenderloin steak, also known as filet or filet mignon, cooks up quickly and easily on the stove. Lean, yet tender and succulent, this buttery-flavored beef should be cooked using dry methods, such as broiling, grilling or frying. It turns out particularly well when seared and then finished on the stove top.

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How to Roast Beef on a Gas Grill

Roasting beef on the gas grill adds a wonderful smoky flavor to roast. Searing the outside of the roast with high heat to create a tasty crust, then slowly cooking it using indirect heat, ensures a delicious, tender and juicy result, everytime.

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How to Bake Potatoes on the Grill

Meat and potatoes go together like, well, meat and potatoes. Consolidate your cooking efforts and sear smoky goodness into your potatoes by grilling them while you grill your meat. Cook the potatoes entirely on your charcoal grill or quicken the grill time by partially cooking them before grilling.

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Grilled chicken and corn on the cob

Pan Frying vs. Grilling

A cooking method causes unique chemical reactions in food and so imparts particular flavors to your meal. However, while many people swear there is no better way to cook meat than to grill it, you have probably pan-fried more meat than you’ve grilled.

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How to Slow Cook Baron of Beef

Legend has it that Henry VIII was so smitten with a spit-roasted double sirloin of beef that he dubbed it Sir Loin, the Baron of Beef. In England, the large joint of beef that included the loins and both legs acquired the moniker of baron of beef.

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How to Broil Delmonico Steaks

Delmonico steak, named after the famous lower-Manhattan restaurant that popularized it in the 1850s, is cut from the little-exercised short-loin group of muscles. It goes by many names, including beef top loin, Kansas City, New York Strip, shell and club steak.

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How Do I Cook Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts for Casseroles?

Chicken’s mild flavor, tender texture and reasonable price make it a staple in many households. Countless casserole recipes call for cooked or partially-cooked, boneless skinless chicken breasts. If the casserole calls for cooked chunks of chicken, you can gently boil chicken breasts in salted water.

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Schnitzel with Salad

How to Grill Breaded Chicken on the George Foreman Grill

When cooking breaded chicken on the George Foreman Grill, you must use boneless breast or thighs. If you’re watching your fat and caloric levels, remove the skin from the chicken; you'll reduce the meal's calories by 48 percent and the fat by 89 percent.

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Christmas dinner. Free range butter basted turkey breast with thyme

How to Cook a Jennie-O Turkey Breast

Jennie-O markets several styles of turkey breast. Your cooking method will vary somewhat depending on whether you get the oven-ready boneless skinless turkey breast, the oven-ready bone-in turkey breast or the premium basted bone-in turkey breast. All the Jennie-O breasts are pre-seasoned.

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How to Steam-Cook Meat to Be Tender

Many cuts of meat are tough and chewy because they come from muscles that get a lot of exercise. Cuts from the shoulder area of deer, lamb, cow and pig contain a lot of connective tissues that make the meat chewy, but the tissues melt when exposed to steam heat.

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How Do I Grill an Eye Round Roast?

The lean eye-of-round roast has a mild flavor and little waste. Though similar in shape and compactness to the far more tender tenderloin roast, the eye-of-round roast has a much firmer texture. The lack of marbling makes this roast tough and potentially chewy, especially when it is overcooked.

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How Many Calories Does Digestion Use Up?

The thermic effect of food refers to the amount of energy used by your body to digest, absorb and dispose of the food you ingest. Consider this the operating cost of working your digestive system; one of the few costs in life you may be happy to pay.

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