Five Healthy Cooking Tips to Boost Energy

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Cooking food can make it taste better but it can also make it more hazardous to our health. In the US, we like to use processed oil, margarine and butter to cook our foods. Using these types of oil to cook foods is unhealthy because when these oils are heated at high temperatures, they go through a chemical change and become carcinogenic. Processed oils, margarine and butter are unhealthy because they are full of empty calories. Another bad habit we like to do when cooking food is over salting it. Salt is important for cell communication because when salt is ionized in the body, it provides the electrolyte environment for proper nerve impulses. Unfortunately, most of the salts we buy at the grocery stores are contaminated with harmful substances.

Five healthy cooking tips to boost your energy

1. Coconut oil or ghee is one of the best oils for cooking food at high temperatures (e.g. 375°F) because it has a strong resistance to heat. Most of the other cooking oils found in grocery stores cannot be safely heated at high temperatures. When heated at high temperatures, these oils will go through a chemical change causing them to become carcinogenic. The coconut oil I recommend using is called Live Superfoods Raw Organic Virgin Coconut Oil (aff. link).
2. Avoid using oils that have been genetically modified. Independent studies have linked genetically modified food to birth defects and chronic diseases. In the US, most oil made from corn, soybean, canola and cottonseed are genetically modified.
3. When cooking food at low temperatures use water or vegetable stock instead of oil. Add more water or vegetable stock as needed and stir often to prevent food from sticking to the pan. If you are going to use oil, use as little as possible. Cooking oil is not healthy to consume because it is pure oil; therefore, it contains little or no nutrients.
4. Use natural sea salt (himalayan salt or celtic sea salt) instead of table salt to flavor food because it has not been processed. The methods used to process table salt are unhealthy because they contaminate the salt with bleach, aluminum silicate, dextrose and other hazardous chemicals. Other good alternatives for salt are herbs and spices.
5. When cooking vegetables, if necessary avoid peeling the skin. Instead, scrub the skin or wash it good. Avoid boiling vegetables because it will destroy a good portion of it nutrients. Steaming vegetables is a better way to preserve its nutrients.

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