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.

Healthy Brain Diets &Foods




Many factors affect brain health. One you can control is your diet. Poor diets negatively affect your brain and overall health. Healthy, sustainable diets positively affects your brain and overall health. Your diet and increase or decrease your risk of dementia.

In this video:

• A healthy brain versus dementia. 00:39
• Unproven social media solutions. 1:29
• Diet versus supplements. 2:14
• Healthy brain diets. 3:12
• Healthy brain foods. 4:31

2023 Diet Tips: Small Changes-Huge Health Benefits




Every year millions of people resolve to change their diet and lose excess weight. Every year, more and more people are classified as overweight or obese.

Fad diets usually require radical changes for weight loss and better heat. But, small, sustainable, affordable dietary changes can produce permanent weigh loss and reduce your risk for many serious chronic diseases. Most people gain weight due to a poor diet of processed foods providing too many empty calories.

In this video:

• Why are you changing your diet? 00:39
• Think diet not dieting. 3:01
• Obtaining essential nutrients from foods. 4:36
• Small changes to achieve a healthy weight. 8:04

Food Versus Dieatary Supplements




Except for vitamin and mineral deficiencies, most dietary supplement are a poor substitute for a balanced diet. Protein supplements may help people eating low protein diets retain muscle mass, but supplemental protein does not increase muscle mass. Most people do not need supplemental protein, vitamins, and minerals.

In this video:

• What are dietary supplements? 00:39
• What are essential nutrients? 2:03
• Nutrient overdose. 2:39
• Nutrient deficiency. 3:55
• Food versus dietary supplements. 5:59

Sour Cream vs Plain And Greek Yogurt

https://youtu.be/E5luUZRpFzs

Plain and Greek Yogurt are low calorie substitutes for sour cream in many recipes. Depending on the recipe, yogurt can replace all or part of the sour cream increasing protein while reducing fat calories.

In this video:

• What is sour cream? 00:36
• What is yogurt? 1:03
• Sour cream and yogurt ingredients. 1:35
• Sour cream and yogurt nutrition. 2:21
• Substituting yogurt for sour cream. 3:10

Pegan Diet Facts & Myths

https://youtu.be/sF-_JgnpulA

Facts and myths about the pegan diet combining the “health benefits” of vegetarian and paleo diets. Pegan is the brainchild of Dr Mark Hyman, best selling diet book author and PBS pledge drive program host. Like most fad, miracle diets, pegan’s health benefits are miraculous results are only documented on Dr. Hyman’s website, books, and PBS program. There are no published clinical trials to back up his claims.

Like most fad diets, pegan emphasizes eating mostly organic foods, and pasture raised or grass-fed meat. It is another diet for the haves while the have nots struggle with increasing obesity and diabetes.

In this video:

• What is a pegan diet? 00:39
• Approved pegan diet foods. 1:30
• Banned pegan diet foods. 2:15
• Claimed health benefits. 5:15
• Returning to home cooked meals. 7:34
• Pegan diet facts & myths. 9:05

Lowering Uric Acid Fad Diet Facts & Myths

https://youtu.be/dZo2voCYu80

2022 introduced the uric acid diet. Another fas diet that concentrates on theoretical chemical imbalances instead of address the poor American diet of highly processed food  providing too many fat and sugar calories. This video shares facts and myths about blood uric acid a byproduct of metabolizing purine in foods and beverages.

In this video:

• What is uric acid? 00:42
• Normal blood uric acid levels. 00:57
• High uric acid health risks. 1:55
• High and low purine foods. 4:22
• Low uric acid diet facts and myths. 6:33

Decoding Ingredient And Nutrition Labels




Diets are made of choices. Many Americans eat a diet of prepared foods without knowing what is in their food. This video shares how to use nutrition and ingredient information to make healthy diet choices.

n this video:

• Definition of prepared foods. 00:41
• Why ingredient and nutrition information is important. 1:36
• Decoding the nutrition facts label. 3:34
• Decoding the ingredients list. 7:55

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