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
29 Low Phosphorous Foods
- At April 08, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
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
Why You May Not Need 4,700 mg Of Potassium Daily
- At March 24, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
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
Natural Versus Supplemental Protein
- At March 18, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
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
Salt vs. Herbs & Spices
- At March 12, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Salt is an essential mineral providing the electrolytes of sodium and chloride. Some people with heart or kidney ceases are advised to limit their salt intake.
Unlike salt, herbs and spices have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, anti-viral chemicals.
In this video:
• Salt advantages and disadvantages. 00:42
• Difference between salt, herbs, and spices. 2:15
• Are herbs and spices superfoods? 2:52
• Substituting herbs and spices for salt. 4:11
Tips For Novice Cooks: Little Or No Cooking Recipes And Meals
- At February 16, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, New Video
- 0
Eating healthy meals does not require a lot of cooking experience. A food industry myth is that eating out is more economical than home cooking. And yet, one of the first thing cut during hard economic times is dining out.
You do not have to spend hours in the kitchen preparing healthy meals. Hundreds of recipes and meals requiring little or no cooking. When you compare the cost of home cooked or prepared foods to commercially prepared foods you can eat organic meals for a fraction of the cost.
In this video:
• Cooking is older than homo sapiens. 00:36
• Recipes that do not require cooking. 1:54
• Simple cooked recipes. 3:34
• Slow cookers versus pressure cookers. 6:01
Carbs Versus Calories
- At February 12, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Low carb diets have guaranteed weight loss and disease prevention for more than 60 years. Instead of low carb they should be called low refined carb diets.
Replacing carbs with fat and protein may not be enough to cause weight loss and prevent or cure chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. Billions of people around the world eat high plant food diets and live long, healthy lives.
In this video:
• Sources of food calories (energy). 00:39
• What are carbs? 00:56
• Processed versus natural carb calories. 2:03
• Carbs and diabetes. 2:48
• Carbs and weight gain. 4:27
Brown Rice Versus Black And Wild Rice
- At February 04, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, New Video
- 0
Brown, black, and wild rice are gluten free whole grains. This videos compares their nutrition, and the differences between black and wild rice.
In this video:
• What is black rice? 00:38
• What is wild rice? 1:29
• Nutrition: carbohydrates, fat, protein. 2:22
• Nutrition: vitamins & minerals. 2:46
• Cooking times. 3:06
• Storage and shelf life. 3:31
Tips For Novice Cooks: Anatomy Of A Recipe
- At February 01, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, New Video
- 0
Many recipes promote failure instead of success. Recipe blogs now dominate the internet. Anyone can become an expert cook, nutritionist, diet expert, and food photographer. At least according to their blog.
Many recipe blogs provide more advertisements than useful information. Blogs that offer nutrition facts can provide erroneous or misleading information to make their recipe appear to be healthier than it actually is.
In this video:
• Anatomy of a recipe. 00:37
• Recipes are a guide. 1:38
• Beware of inaccurate statements and tips. 4:37
Tips For Novice Cooks Video Series
- At January 29, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, New Video
- 0
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.