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.

How to Make Water on the Knee Go Away

Water on the knee, also called knee effusion, can be a symptom of several different conditions, including infection, injury or gout, tumor or osteoarthritis of the knee joint.

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Homemade Turkey Sandwich

Calories in a Turkey Sandwich on Wheat Bread

A turkey sandwich on whole-wheat bread can be low in calories and saturated fats and can be eaten more often than higher-fat choices such as cheeseburgers, tacos or other fried food.

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How Many Calories are in Homemade Vegetable Soup?

Homemade vegetable soup can be very low in calories, depending on the ingredients, and full of nutrients. Vegetable soup is made with broth and diced vegetables, and is often thickened with pureed vegetables, flour, cream, potatoes or rice.

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Spaghetti with pesto sauce.

Calories in Pasta With Pesto

Pesto means paste, and interestingly, so does the word pasta. Pesto refers to a paste of herbs, nuts and oil used to flavor foods. Pasta refers to the dough or paste used to make spaghetti, rigatoni and other dried and fresh pastas.

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Calories in Turkey Meatloaf

Turkey meatloaf is easy to prepare, lean and healthy. It provides protein as well as vitamin B6, selenium and niacin, without the fat of red meat. There are a variety of ways to prepare ground turkey, besides meatloaf, so you will find it easy to add to your diet.

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Vegetable Pad Thai Calories

Pad Thai is a quick stir-fried noodle dish sold in small restaurants and street carts all over Thailand. It is a good vegetarian dish as you can substitute soy sauce for the fish sauce and add tofu for protein, rather than shrimp or chicken.

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Roasted turkey leg with mash potato, chestnuts and brussels sprouts.

The Calories in a Turkey Leg

Roast turkey legs are perfect for a small scale holiday dinner for two. Turkey legs have the traditional holiday flavor, but are less work to prepare than an entire turkey. Cook just the drumsticks, or use the entire leg, drumstick and thigh.

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Fresh Green Chinese Cabbage, Pok Choi or Pak Choi

How To Clean the Inside of Your Body

You feel the need to do something about your health, to cleanse your body of the accumulation of unhealthy foods, toxins from pollution, smoking, drinking too much coffee, too much sodas or wine or sweet tea, a vegetarian detox diet for a weekend or a whole week can not only cleanse your body but it will give you a jum

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Beef

How to Use a Roaster Oven to Cook a Chuck Roast

Chuck roast is a flavorful cut of beef that needs slow cooking to make it tender. Cooking in a roaster oven is convenient because it is portable. You can plug it in the garage, for instance, if the weather is hot or your kitchen cramped.

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barbeque grilled

How to Grill Cod Fillets

Atlantic cod is caught in the northwest Atlantic from Greenland to North Carolina. It has been a popular fish for over 1,000 years and was part of the desire to discover and explore North America, according to Mark Kurlansky, author of "Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World."

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raw steak with tomato

How to Cook Beef Flap Meat

Flap steak is cut from the bottom sirloin and is sometimes call beef loin tip. It is less tender than more expensive steaks, but has a good beef flavor. It is ideal for marinating and needs to be cooked quickly on high heat to medium rare. Cut the cooked steak thinly across the grain before serving.

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Tomato sauce

How to Cook Sausage in a Tomato Sauce Gravy

Italian-Americans on the east coast of the U.S. often call tomato sauce "gravy." Apparently it comes from the Italian word sugo, which means gravy. Sugo al pomodoro is tomato gravy, and sugo all'arriabbiata is a spicy tomato gravy.

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buckwheat cooked with stewed chicken gizzards

How to Cook Gizzards in a Crockpot

The gizzard is an muscular organ found in the digestive tract of poultry. Since birds don't have teeth to grind their food, the gizzard helps them to grind their food before digesting it. Gizzards are used in many different cuisines from China where it is stir-fried to the southern U.S., where it is braised or fried.

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Still life of cannellini beans (also known as white kidney beans) on wooden table

How to Cook Peruano Beans

Peruano beans are mild beans from Mexico that are light cream, buff or yellow, with a mild taste and creamy texture. They can be used in any recipes that call for navy, canellini or pinto beans. Although the beans are a common ingredient in Latin American cooking, they originated in the Andes Mountains in Peru.

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meatloaf with onion, pepper and garlic

How to Cook Meatloaf Without Bread

Good meatloaf is flavorful, moist and tender. It can be sliced without falling apart and tastes as good the second day as the day it was made. Meatloaf recipes contain ground meat, flavorings and binders. Starches, milk and eggs can all be used as binders in meatloaf recipes.

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