Tips For Novice Cooks Video Series

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.

Fad Diet Pseudoscience

The “science”” many fad diets use to support their claimed health benefits is actually based on pseudoscience, like animal studies, not on rigorous clinically trials.

In this video:

• Marketing pseudoscience. 00:42
• Nutrition science is not exact. 2:43
• Why nutrition science is not exact. 4:30
• Nutrition science and clinical trials. 6:14

Cutting Calories Not Foods

Most overweight, but healthy people without food allergies or irritable bowel  and other gastrointestinal medical problems do not have to cut foods or food groups to lose excess weight. In most cases, the problem is not the food, but too many calories from highly process foods.

A person can cut hundreds of calories from your diet by replacing highly processed (prepared) foods with minimally processed foods.

In this video:

• Is your weight gain due to your diet? 00:31
• Eliminating foods is easy. 1:18
• Cutting calories not foods. 3:33
• Calorie cutting tips. 4:52

Is Your Diet Protein Abundant Or Deficient?

Most healthy adults get enough protein from their diet and do not need protein supplements. Too much protein has more health risks than benefits.

In this video:

• What is protein? 00:45
• Sources of dietary protein. 1:17
• Why most people do not need supplemental protein. 2:45
• Supplemental protein and excess calories. 5:13
• High protein diet risks. 8:48

30 More Low Potassium Foods

30 foods providing 210 mg or less of potassium per serving for people needing to restrict potassium due to chronic kidney disease.

In this video:

• Why a low potassium diet? 00:30
• Nutrition label potassium daily value. 1:09
• 30 low potassium foods. 1:35

Garlic
Radishes
Paste, White, Cooked
Jalapeno Pepper
Endive, Raw
Scallions (Green Onions)
Onions
Apricots
Couscous, cooked
Figs
Plums
Milk Chocolate
Rapini (Broccoli Rabe)
Celery
Blueberries
Walnuts
Tangerine (Mandarin Orange)
Peaches
Green Bell Pepper
Turnips
Shrimp
Dark Chocolate
Spinach, Raw
Green Peas
Red Bell Pepper
Bulgur, dry
Peanuts, Roasted
Mustard Greens, Raw
Almonds
Peanut Butter

Dietary Supplement Health Risks

How some dietary supplements can interfere with prescription drugs, produce false test results, and be fatal.

In this video:

• What are dietary supplements? 00:42
• Clinically unproven. 2:44
• Supplements that prevent nutrient deficiencies. 5:00
• A little is good, a lot can be fatal. 5:59
• Potentially dangerous supplements. 7:44

Take Back Control Of Your Diet

If your diet is controlled by corporations (prepared foods, restaurant foods) you probably carry a few extra pounds and either have or will have one or more serious diet related chronic diseases.

Reducing the number of prepared foods can reduce the number of calories and amount of sodium in your diet. One leads to weight gain, the other to hypertension. Your diet will also have less chemical additives and more natural ingredients.

In this video:

• Why take back control of your diet? 00:41
• There is no Standard American Diet (SAD). 4:19
• Food quality marketing hype. 6:04
• The Monotonous American Diet (MAD). 7:18
• Who controls your diet? 9:47

Clinically Proven Fad Diet Myths

Why diet plans claiming to be clinically proven to reduce weight, improve health, slow aging, and eliminate chronic diseases usually do not deliver what they claim. And, diet plans with proven health benefits.

In this video:

• Types of clinical trials. 00:35
• Corporate funded clinical trials. 3:55
• Diets with proven health benefits. 5:41

Protein Versus Amino Acids

The human body uses amino acids in protein not dietary protein to make over 20,000 unique proteins.

In this video:

• What is protein? 00:44
• Protein and amino acids. 1:30
• How much protein do you need? 2:53
• Health risks of too much protein. 5:56
• Animal versus plant protein. 7:39
• Food, supplements, & essential amino acids. 8:39

High And Low FODMAP Foods

FODMAPs (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols) are undigested sugars (carbohydrates) that can cause bloating, gas, nausea, and gut pain. FODMAPS are prebiotics that feed gut bacteria. They are in grains, fruits, nuts, seeds, dairy, legumes, and vegetables. Gastrointestinal discomfort some associate with antinutrients can be due to FODMAPS.

A guide to over 100 high and low FODMAP foods including amounts in imperial and metric units for foods that can be eaten in moderation.

In this video:

• Definition of high and low FODMAP. 00:37
• Low FODMAP is not low carb. 2:16
• High FODMAP Foods. 4:07
• Low FODMAP Foods. 8:16

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Gut Pain? Antinutrients vs. Prebiotics (FODMAPS)

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