30 Foods Under 50 Calories

Many nature, minimally processed foods are low calorie foods. Processing like deep fat frying turns a low calorie food, like zucchini, into a high calorie. Frying adds calories but few essential nutrients. This video shares 30 common foods providing 50 calories or less per 100 gram (3.5 oz) or 28 gram (1 oz) serving.

In this video:

• Why low calorie foods? 00:40
• Most low calorie foods are plant foods. 1:48
• High calorie foods and portion control. 2:36
• 30 foods under 50 calories. 3:48

What’s In Your Food?

What’s In Your Food?

Most prepared foods have more chemical additives than essential nutrients. Some people condemn vaccines and eat hundreds of processed and prepared foods without given synthetic chemical additives a second thought. Besides adding unnecessary calories to their diet resulting in weight gain and increased risk of series chronic diseases, prepared foods also have dozens of poorly tested or untested chemical additives. Consumers are used as guinea pigs. Research shows people eating the fewest prepared foods have fewer diseases and live longer lives.

In this video:

• What are prepared foods? 00:43
• Minimally processed versus ultraprocessed. 1:32
• A better life through chemistry? 3:16
• What’s in a name? 5:58
• Slow foods versus prepared foods. 4:58
• What’s in your foods? 6:38

Creating A Sustainable Diet

Many people yo-yo diet starting a new weight loss diet, lose weight, stop the diet, and regain the weight they lost. And, many times a few extra pounds. One reason is unsustainable diets. While some claim to be sustainable, they either require high price ingredients like 100% organic, or restrict eating so many foods that dieters soon tire of the plan.

This video shares how to create a sustainable diet that meets your needs rather than a one-size-fits-all diet.

Sustainable diets not only you lose weight, it helps you n=maintain a healthy weight.

In this video:

• Excess body fat versus weight gain. 00:49
• Sustainable versus unsustainable diets. 1:38
• Ignore fast weight loss claims and testimonials. 3:50
• Excess weight loss math. 5:31
• Estimating your calorie needs. 7:57
• Foods you should cut or eliminate. 9:32
• Organic versus nonorganic foods. 13:20

High Fat Foods: Avocado vs. Cheese

Fat is an essential nutrient. The human body does not make fat out of other nutrients, but it does store excess calories from carbohydrates, protein, and fat as body fat. Some diets promote eating high fat foods. This video compares two high fat foods: avocados and cheese. Is one healthier than the other?

In this video:

• Diet, fat and calories. 00:34
• Animal versus vegetable fat. 1:46
• Avocado versus cheese nutrients. 2:49

Patented Dietary Supplements Facts & Myths

Dietary supplements in the U.S. are virtually unregulated. Supplement manufactures use a variety of marketing tricks to promote supplements and supplement ingredient quality, potency, and efficacy. One marketing trick is including patents in packaging and promotions. Patents do not guarantee quality, potency, and efficacy. A patent gives the patent holder the exclusive eight to make and sell and product.

In this video:

• What is a dietary supplement? 00:38
• What is a patent? 1:28
• Patented dietary supplements. 2:22
• Patented ingredients. 3:26
• Clinical proven versus patents. 4:03

Slow Versus Fast Weight Loss

A leading cause of yo-yo dieting are low calorie diet plans promoting fast weight loss. Most are nutrient deficient and lead to a slower metabolism making it easier to gain weight. People who lose excess fat slowly are more likely to achieve permanent weight loss while improving health.

In this video:

• Slow, permanent weight loss. 00:41
• Are your weight loss goals realistic? 2:38
• Calculate your body mass index (BMI). 4:08
• Estimate your current calorie needs. 4:40
• Estimate your ideal weight calorie needs. 6:23
• Develop a sustainable diet plan. 6:48

20 Low Iron Foods

Iron is an essential nutrient. Too little dietary iron can cause iron deficiency anemia. Some people have an inherited condition (hemochromatosis)  that can cause dangerously high blood iron levels. This video highlights 20 foods with 1.2 mg or less of iron per serving. Most are plant foods providing nonheme iron that is not absorbed as efficiently as animal food heme iron.

In this video:

• What is iron?
• USRDA for iron.
• Why eat a low iron diet?
• 20 low iron foods.

Rich Americans, Poor Americans

The USA is one of the wealthiest countries in the world that also has one of the highest poverty rates among wealthy countries. For decades the  wealth gap has been increasing as millions of Americans are encourage to live beyond their means using credit and spend rather than save.

In this video:

• The land of opportunity? 00:35
• Are you a rich or poor American? 2:44
• Poverty in America. 6:38
• Definition of poverty. 8:27
• Save or spend? 11:11

The High Cost Of Low Quality

Everyone likes saving money. Buying low cost products is like the saying, “You get what you pay for.”

Reviews on Amazon and other online retailers confirm that low cost usually equals quality like it rusted after one washing. Suddenly, a bargain is no longer a bargain.

In this video:

• The high cost of low quality. 00:38
• Poorly made in America. 1:27
• Price before quality. 3:06
• Made in American from foreign materials. 3:47
• Marketing hype not help. 4:33

Marketing Tricks: Invest In Gold to Beat Inflation

A 2022 magazine ad stated investing $150,000 in gold in 2000 would have over $1 million  dollars in 2022. That information is correct. What ads for gold do not reveal, is that gold was at an historic low in 2000, that people who bought gold at its high in 2011 have lost money, and that the same $150,000 investment in stocks would have been worth millions more.

One certainty about investing in gold is that the sellers always make a profit.

This video looks at some of the myths about investing in gold and other commodities.

In this video:

• Why invest in gold? 00:41
• Gold versus real estate and stocks. 1:40
• Gold and capital gains tax. 3:55
• Cost of owning gold. 4:59
• Is gold a good investment for you? 8:01

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