Cut Calories & Increase Nutrients: Slow Foods vs. Fast Foods

Prepared foods are convenient, but usually provide too many of some nutrients (calories, salt, sugar, refined flour), and too few essential nutrients (vitamins, minerals).

Home cooked meals can significantly reduce calories while providing more essential nutrients.

In this video:

• What is fast food? 00:46
• What is slow food? 1:10
• Your diet provides essential nutrients. 1:45
• Your body’s needs versus wants. 3:37
• Why most fast foods are low nutrient fat foods 6:38
• Fast versus slow food calories and nutrition. 8:40

Online Lists You Can Ignore

You search the internet for product reviews and get back numerous websites about the “10 Best” “Best (fill in the blank) for 2023.” Many times these sites do not agree which product is best and the reviews are vague, reviewer qualifications and testing methods are not disclosed.

Most are are commercial business accepting advertising and manufacturer incentives to sell low price, low quality products, or best selling products by internet retailers.

This video shares how to separate biased from unbiased lists and reviews.

In this video:

• There are lists for almost everything. 00:46
• .org websites versus .com websites. 1:33
• Can you trust a trusted domain name? 3:33
• Experienced testers or corporate executives? 5:10
• Biased unbiased reviews and ratings. 5:59
• Why are D-rated products listed? 7:37

Is Your Diet Nutrient Deficient?

Essential nutrients must come from your diet because your body cannot make them. Essential nutrients include fat, carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and minerals.

Many diets are nutrient deficient emphasizing some essential nutrients and not others. Nutrient deficient diets require supplemental nutrients.

This video shares how to verify your diet provides all essential nutrients your body needs before resorting to dietary supplements.

In this video:

• Essential nutrients & nutrient deficiencies. 00:32
• Symptoms and tests:
• Fat deficiency 3:14
• Protein deficiency 4:46
• Carbohydrate deficiency 6:47
• Mineral deficiency 8:42
• Vitamin deficiency 11:37
• Home testing and self-help risks. 13:10

Fast Metabolism And Weight Loss

Your metabolism works 24 hours a day to keep you alive but, does a fast or slow metabolism affect your weight and weight loss? A fast or slow metabolism has more to do your level of activity that your diet. Most people can to increase their metabolism without dietary supplement and fad diets. And, no supplement or diet will significantly effect weight gain caused by your genes, hormones, and medications.

In this video:

• What is metabolism? 00:44
• Sources of dietary energy. 2:29
• How your body burns calories. 3:23
• Metabolism and breaking your fast. 5:51
• 700 calorie meals. 7:31
• Excess calories and body fat. 10:30

Marketing Tricks: Income Tax Relief Companies

You owed income tax but haven’t paid any for years? No problem. You paid a lot less than than you owed? No sweat. You are being audited? Relax! There are companies promising dramatic income tax reductions and protection from IRS wage garnishment and property liens. In many cases, these companies relieve you of your money not your tax bill to perform services tax payers can perform for free.

In this video:

• Tax relief company marketing hype. 00:40
• IRS and state hardship programs. 1:18
• Do you qualify for a hardship program? 2:02
• FTC tax relief company complaints. 2:37
• IRS hardship programs self-help. 3:12

Using A Kitchen Scale For Cooking And Portion Control

A majority of overweight and obese people eat too many calories for their activity level. Contrary to popular belief, it only takes a few hundred, not thousand, extra calories to go from a healthy weight to obese.

Unlike most countries using the metric system, Americans use the imperial system of cups to weigh most recipe ingredients. The accuracy of measuring cups can vary more than the accuracy of affordable kitchen scales. A good quality scale is accurate to within 1 gram (1/28th oz). In addition to cups, Americans deal with vague descriptions like small, medium, or large bananas etc. Cups and sizes are used by the USDA and FDA for serving sizes. In some cases, serving sizes are specified in grams, but most Americans do not own a kitchen scale and cannot measure foods in grams.

Whether grams or ounces, when it comes to diets, excess calories becomes body fat. Is a meal serving of frozen potatoes the 85 grams (3 oz) on the nutrition label or more. Is a steak 4 oz (113 g) or more. In most cases, it is much more.

Using a kitchen scale, you can create perfectly portioned meals providing all or most essential nutrients. And, you are in control of your diet and ingredients not a faceless corporation.

In this video:

• Diet and portion control. 00:42
• Weight versus volume (cups). 2:23
• Selecting a kitchen scale. 4:45
• Using a kitchen scale for cooking. 8:45
• Using a kitchen scale for portion control. 10:45

LED Lighting Facts & Myths

While LED lights use significantly less energy than incandescent and CFL lighting they are not ideal for all uses. This video highlights some of the advantages and disadvantages about consumer LED lighting.

In this video:

• What is a LED? 00:44
• Incandescent, CFL, LED lighting. 1:24
• What are COB LED lights? 2:37
• Quality and longevity. 4:03
• Don’t pay for more lumens than you need. 5:39
• LED lighting facts and myths. 7:11

30 High Protein Plant Foods

Protein is an essential nutrient to maintain muscles and for 100s of proteins throughout the body. Food protein is not used directly. Proteins are made of amino acids. Nine amino acids must come from food.

Meat, diary, poultry and fish are high in essential amino acids. Vegans and vegetarians obtain essential amino acids from plant foods. A plant based diet can also supply all essential amino acids.

This video highlights  30 common plant foods providing 2 to 17 grams of protein per 100 gram (3.5 oz) serving. The serving size for nuts and seeds is 28 g (1 oz) due to there high fat and calorie content.

In this video:

• Protein and essential amino acids. 00:40
• The incomplete protein myth. 1:21
• Plant protein versus animal protein. 2:24
• The supplemental protein myth. 3:44
• 30 high protein plant foods. 5:14

Balanced Versus Unbalanced Diets

Many fad diets require supplemental protein, vitamins, and minerals. In some cases the supplements are available form the diet promoter. Until the 20th century, essential nutrients came from foods not supplements. Eating a balanced diet should provide a healthy person with all or most essential nutrients without excess calories. Many people eat high calorie unbalanced processed food diets. Processed foods are designed to satisfy wants not needs.

In this video:

• What is a balanced diet? 00:41
• Balanced diet and supplements. 2:14
• Balanced diet and exercise. 3:29
• Balanced diet and aging. 4:38
• Balanced versus unbalanced diet examples. 6:27
• Balanced diet tips. 7:49

Gluten-free Fried Fish Fillets

Frying is one of the fastest ways to cook fish fillets. It can go from pan to table in about 10 minutes including preheating the skillet.

For people with celiac disease or wheat allergy, restaurant and prepared breaded fish is off limits. That does not mean that fried fish is off the menu completely.

This video shares two simple ways to cook gluten-free fried fish fillets in just minutes. The simplest is seasoned fillets with no coating. The other replaces wheat flout with corn starch and cornmeal.

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