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Ten Healthy Cooking Tips for Thanksgiving

Cooking food is a great way to destroy harmful microorganisms but it also destroys essential nutrients. The best way to preserve the nutrients of foods is to eat foods raw. However, if the food needs to be cooked, you should cook it to avoid food poisoning. Even though cooking food will destroy some of its essential nutrients, if you learn healthy ways to cook food, you can minimize the amount of nutrients that are destroyed or lost during cooking. You can also make the food healthier by adding certain herbs, spices and healthy oils. The ten healthy cooking tips in this article should help you preserve more nutrients during cooking. Use these cooking tips to help you cook a Thanksgiving dinner that is as healthy as it is tasty.

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Five Healthy Cooking Tips to Boost Energy

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 very unhealthy because they contain saturated fat and 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.

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How to Cook Without Oil

Most people has been conditioned to think that cooking food without oil doesn’t taste good. In reality, food cooked without oil and can taste just as good or even better. In fact, many five star or high class restaurants cook their food with little or no oil. The food industry has convinced most people to believe that vegetable oil is healthy. Their marketing strategy is so successful that it made them billions in a short amount of time. Vegetable oil is one of the worst refined food to consume because it is 100 percent fat and is devoided of nutrients.

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Cooking Tips for Increasing Energy

Whole foods such as organic fruits and vegetables, should be eaten raw as much as possible. Cooking fruits and vegetables will destroy a good portion of their vitamins and minerals which are crucial for energy and health. Unprocessed meat should be cooked before eating to destroy bacteria and other harmful micro-organisms.