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.
Ringworm is a fungus that causes itchy, scaly ring-shaped skin infections. Common in cats, ringworm is highly contagious and easily spread among animals and humans. Ringworm infections are most likely to occur on body parts that are often sweaty, such as the groin and feet.
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Topical hydrocortisone cream is effective in treating swollen, inflamed rectal hemorrhoids, but you may also get good results using hemorrhoid cream to reduce swelling in other places.
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Coconuts grow on tall palm trees in tropical climates. The fruit of the coconut palm, coconuts are round nuts that start life green in color and turn brown as they ripen. To eat a coconut, you must break the seed in half. Inside a ripe coconut, you'll find fresh coconut meat and coconut milk.
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Cabbage is a cruciferous vegetable that is edible both raw and cooked. Red and green cabbage are two different cabbage varieties that have a similar flavor, although red cabbage tends to be more peppery than green. Heads of red cabbage are also smaller and denser than green cabbage heads.
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Convection ovens work like regular ovens, except convection models have large fans that constantly circulate hot air through the ovens. Since hot air is constantly hitting each part of your food as you cook in a convection oven, your food cooks faster and more evenly that it would in a traditional oven.
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Frying bacon on the stove top yields crunchy bacon, but it can also result in a greasy mess all over your kitchen. By slow cooking bacon in the oven, you can not only keep the splattering bacon grease contained, but you can also cook perfectly crisp bacon with minimal effort.
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You can cook lobster tails quickly and easily over the flame on a gas grill. Baste and serve the lobster tails with melted butter for a decadent meal, or cut back on fat and calories by brushing and serving lobster tails with a tangy vinaigrette.
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Cannellini beans are large, white Italian beans that have a creamy texture when cooked. Enjoy cooked cannellini beans in chili, soups, stews or bean salads. Use canned cannellini beans, which are already cooked, when you are in a hurry, or save money by cooking your own dried beans.
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Dried shiitake mushrooms keep at room temperature indefinitely, making them an attractive year-round alternative to fresh mushrooms. For most preparations, you'll need to rehydrate dried shiitake mushrooms first, then use them in whatever dish you are making.
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Damiana is a plant that grows well in the hot, humid climate in Baja California, Mexico. Several Mexican producers use the plant to make damiana liquor, a sweet, herbal alcoholic beverage that is rumored to be a strong aphrodisiac.
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Tiny quail make an easy and impressive dinner. Quail cook up quickly in a hot oven. Pick up some fresh, whole quail from the butcher and cook them by browning them on the stove top, then finishing them in the oven to get perfectly cooked quail with a nice, crusty sear.
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If the weather isn't cooperating, you can still grill a tasty chicken entree on your kitchen's stove top. You'll need a grill pan, which is a shallow stove top pan that has ridges to recreate the surface of a hot grill. You can find grill pans made from nonstick cookware or cast iron.
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Rather than buying a can of pumpkin puree, you can steam your own fresh pumpkin and use the tender, cooked meat as pumpkin pie filling or in a host of other baked goods, such as tasty seasonal cakes and cookies.
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Use applesauce to replace the oil in a cake recipe and you'll reduce the amount of fat and calories in the finished product.
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Red snapper is a saltwater fish that has a flaky white meat when cooked. Snapper has a milder flavor than other fish, making it a staple on many restaurant menus and in many homes.
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Raw potatoes sliced into French fry shapes cook up amazingly quickly when cooked in hot oil. While French fries aren't a healthy treat, you can at least choose the oil -- such as organic canola oil -- you use when you cook them at home, to reduce some of the potential health risks associated with fried foods.
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Boneless skinless chicken breasts are packed with protein while being lower in fat and calories than dark meat chicken or chicken cooked with the skin on. Smoked chicken breasts make an excellent lean protein source for any meal.
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Catfish fillets are a low-calorie source of protein. By grilling catfish fillets instead of frying them, you cut back on the amount of fat in the final dish. Choose lean grilled catfish as the centerpiece of a healthy meal.
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