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.

Diet and Nutrition Cooking and Baking

Kabardin horse with lick-log on pasturage

How to Make Your Own Salt Block

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Stellina Aubuchon

Salt blocks, also known as salt licks, are used by farmers for domesticated animals and by hunters to attract deer. Echonet.org states that salt blocks provide animals with the proper nutrients that they not only need but desire, and they can smell the sodium from far away.

African baby in high chair wearing party hat and eating cake

How to Substitute Oil for Butter in a Betty Crocker Cake

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Stellina Aubuchon

Many Betty Crocker cake mixes call for butter in the recipe. It is possible and common to substitute oil for butter when cooking a Betty Crocker cake. Essentially, butter contains 80 percent fat while oil is 100 percent fat; replacing butter with oil adds more fat to a Betty Crocker cake mix.

Stellina Aubuchon has been writing since 2003. She writes on health and communication issues for various websites. Her past writing experience includes her master’s degree thesis on college students' oral health. Aubuchon is working towards her doctoral degree in communication studies, with a specific emphasis in health communication, sensation-seekers and risky behaviors.