Tips For Novice Cooks Video Series
- At January 29, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, New Video
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Prepared foods account for 60% of the American diet. The trend from home cooking to prepared foods has increased since the 1980’s. The results have been decreasing life expectancy and increasing heart disease and diabetes.
The problem is not eating prepared foods, but eating the wrong prepared foods. Comfort foods that are high in calories and sodium and low in most essential nutrients.
Many Americans pay for prepared foods (restaurant, fast foods, store bought) with credit not disposable cash.
Home cooked meals, despite misinformation from the food industry, saves thousands of dollars a year per person and healthier than prepared foods costing much more.
With home cooking, you can eat steak for less than the cost of a hamburger meal.
Fad Diet Pseudoscience
- At January 28, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
The “science”” many fad diets use to support their claimed health benefits is actually based on pseudoscience, like animal studies, not on rigorous clinically trials.
In this video:
• Marketing pseudoscience. 00:42
• Nutrition science is not exact. 2:43
• Why nutrition science is not exact. 4:30
• Nutrition science and clinical trials. 6:14
Cutting Calories Not Foods
- At January 22, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
Most overweight, but healthy people without food allergies or irritable bowel and other gastrointestinal medical problems do not have to cut foods or food groups to lose excess weight. In most cases, the problem is not the food, but too many calories from highly process foods.
A person can cut hundreds of calories from your diet by replacing highly processed (prepared) foods with minimally processed foods.
In this video:
• Is your weight gain due to your diet? 00:31
• Eliminating foods is easy. 1:18
• Cutting calories not foods. 3:33
• Calorie cutting tips. 4:52
Is Your Diet Protein Abundant Or Deficient?
- At January 14, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
Most healthy adults get enough protein from their diet and do not need protein supplements. Too much protein has more health risks than benefits.
In this video:
• What is protein? 00:45
• Sources of dietary protein. 1:17
• Why most people do not need supplemental protein. 2:45
• Supplemental protein and excess calories. 5:13
• High protein diet risks. 8:48
Marketing Tricks: What The FDA Does And Does Not Approve
- At January 08, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
How some companies increase sales by implying FDA approval, certification, or registration and even use FDA logos. The lowest level is FDA certified. A process where a manufacturer claims their device is identical to an FDA approved device.
In this video:
• What is the FDA? 00:41
• What the FDA approves and does not approve. 1:32
• What is FDA registered? 4:03
• Checking For FDA Approved, Cleared, or Authorized Medical Devices 5:38
30 More Low Potassium Foods
- At January 02, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
30 foods providing 210 mg or less of potassium per serving for people needing to restrict potassium due to chronic kidney disease.
In this video:
• Why a low potassium diet? 00:30
• Nutrition label potassium daily value. 1:09
• 30 low potassium foods. 1:35
Garlic
Radishes
Paste, White, Cooked
Jalapeno Pepper
Endive, Raw
Scallions (Green Onions)
Onions
Apricots
Couscous, cooked
Figs
Plums
Milk Chocolate
Rapini (Broccoli Rabe)
Celery
Blueberries
Walnuts
Tangerine (Mandarin Orange)
Peaches
Green Bell Pepper
Turnips
Shrimp
Dark Chocolate
Spinach, Raw
Green Peas
Red Bell Pepper
Bulgur, dry
Peanuts, Roasted
Mustard Greens, Raw
Almonds
Peanut Butter