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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Can Eating Chocolate Make Your Throat Burn?

Chocolate is made from cocoa solids, which comes from the beans of the Theobroma cacao plant. Cocoa solids contain flavonoids, which are health-promoting antioxidants.

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Diet for Calcium Oxalate Crystals in the Urine

Kidney stones are small, hard, sharp crystals that can lodge in the kidneys or the ureter, which is the tube that carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder, and are potentially very painful. The most commonly occurring stones are made of calcium combined with either phosphate or oxalate.

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Platelets & Vitamin B-12

An essential nutrient, vitamin B-12 has a number of physiological roles in your body, including a role in nerve function and cell growth. Healthy vitamin B-12 levels also promote the health of your blood cells, including platelets.

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What Are the Effects of Alcohol on Vitamins & Minerals?

Alcohol is safe in moderation -- generally defined as one drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men. People who exceed these amounts or abuse alcohol daily often develop vitamin and mineral deficiencies because alcohol interferes with the body's ability to absorb nutrients.

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B12 Injection Dosage

Vitamin B-12 is required for the transformation of protein and fat into energy. The metal cobalt is incorporated into vitamin B-12, which is the basis of the alternative name of this vitamin, cobalamin.

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