Tips For Novice Cooks: Flour: Wheat & Gluten-Free
- At April 18, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, New Video
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Overview of consumer flours with and without gluten used for cooking and baking including shelf-life and storage.
In this video:
• Wheat versus gluten-free flour. 00:34
• Types of wheat flour. 1:34
• Storing flour. 3:19
The Chemical American Diet (CAD)
- At April 14, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Prepared foods have 100’s of untested or poorly tested chemical additives saving food makers millions of dollars, but can adversely affect the consumers health and damage DNA.
In tis video:
• Better eating through chemistry? 00:37
• The Age of Obesity. 3:38
• Diet and your DNA. 5:06
Tips For Novice Cooks: Herbs, Spices, & Extracts
- At April 11, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, New Video
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Herbs, spices, and flavorings should be selected based on your tastes and budget, not on the advice of internet influencers or popular cooking show hosts.
In this video:
• Fresh versus dried herbs. 00:39
• Ground versus whole spices? 2:30
• Use or best by dates. 3:55
• Natural and artificial extracts. 4:41
29 Low Phosphorous Foods
- At April 08, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Phosphorous is an essential nutrient. Some prepared foods like colas and cured meats have high levels of added phosphorous. This video highlights 29 plant and animal foods providing between 7 mg and 320 mg of phosphorus per serving.
In this video:
• Phosphorous: an essential nutrient. 00:33
• Phosphorous in natural foods. 00:57
• Phosphorous and prepared foods. 1:18
• 28 low phosphorous foods. 2:07
Marketing Tricks: Reverse Mortgages
- At April 02, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Education, New Video
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Senior Americans are sitting on trillions of dollars worth of equity. Many retired Americans discover their income and savings are not enough to make ends meet. Congress created reverse mortgages during the 1980’s to allow senior homeowners to tap into their homes equity. Assuming their home has any equity.
While commercials by companies who originate reverse mortgages claim it is an easy way to use built up equity there are limits and disadvantages. Like a conventional mortgage, the lender can foreclose on a reverse mortgage.
In this video:
• What is a reverse mortgage? 00:28
• Types of reverse mortgages. 2:26
• How you can use the money. 3:24
• Who owns the home? 3:52
• Reverse mortgage advantages. 4:25
• Reverse mortgage disadvantages. 4:50
Tips For Novice Cooks: Butter: Salted Or Unsalted
- At March 28, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips
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Most cooking shows recommend using unsalted butter. Many commercially prepared unsalted butters have natural flavors. Natural flavors are synthetic chemical additives. Many premium unsalted butters do not added chemical flavors.
This video shares the differences between salted and unsalted butter and why using unsalted butter is not the best way to control the amount of salt and sodium in your diet.
Why You May Not Need 4,700 mg Of Potassium Daily
- At March 24, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Potassium is an electrolyte that helps balance fluid levels in cells and blood. While sodium can increase blood volume, potassium decreases it. Plant foods are the best source of potassium, but it also comes from eating animal foods.
There are indications some people are not getting enough dietary potassium. Your doctor uses a blood test called Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP) to check your blood potassium and sodium levels.
Some websites claim adults need up to 4,700 mg of potassium daily. Others claim as little as 2,500mg daily is enough. For people with healthy kidneys, excess potassium is removed in your urine.
For people with kidney disease, excessive potassium can be life threatening. That is one reason potassium supplements are limited to 100 mg.
In this video:
• Do healthy adults need 4,700 mg of potassium daily? 00:46
• RDA, adequate intake and daily value. 2:45
• Potassium deficiency symptoms and risks. 4:41
• Low carb diets and potassium deficiency. 7:02
Tips For Novice Cooks: Frequently Used Kitchen Utensils
- At March 22, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips
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This video shares twenty multifunctional kitchen utensils for novice home cooks, and common utensil materials.
In this video:
• Common kitchen utensil materials. 00:34
• Multifunctional kitchen utensils. 2:34
• Optional utensils 6:22
Natural Versus Supplemental Protein
- At March 18, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Millions of people take protein supplements in the form of bars, beverages, capsules and pills. Many get enough protein from their diet.
While plant and animal foods provide complete protein (all nine essential amino acids), so protein supplement, like collagen, provide incomplete protein. Others have more nonessential amino acids than essential amino acids.
In this video:
• What is protein? 00:47
• Sources of natural food protein. 1:19
• Complete versus incomplete proteins. 1:53
• High versus low quality protein.2:41
• Added proteins. 3:47
• Supplemental protein is expensive protein. 5:20
Tips For Novice Cooks: Ovens
- At March 14, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, New Video
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If you are in the market for a new oven, this video shares the differences between consumer conventional and convection ovens.
In this video:
• Conventional versus convection oven. 00:43
• Convection versus true convection. 1:33
• Conventional oven advantages. 2:41
• Convection oven advantages. 3:43
• Converting from conventional to convection baking. 4:07