Home Cooking Provides More Variety And Essential Nutrients

Most nutrient deficiencies are caused by a diet of highly processed foods. Healthy home cooked meals can provide more variety and essential nutrients for less calories than prepared foods.

In this video:

• Prepared versus homemade foods. 00:41
• From natural foods to processed foods. 1:38
• Why home cooking increases variety and essential nutrients. 2:30

Refined Flour Versus Sugar

Nutritional difference between refined flour and sugar and why sugar heads the list of many prepared foods.

In This Video:

• Why refine sugar and flour? 00:42
• Why sugar heads ingredient lists? 1:33
• Flour & sugar nutrition facts. 2:13
• Flour & sugar vitamin & minerals facts. 2:36
• Take aways. 3:05

Home Cooking Health Benefits

Home cooking has health benefits not found in most prepared foods like less calories, sodium, and synthetic additives. It can also provide essential nutrients without taking dietary supplements. The healthcare costs of prepared food diets is taking its toll in higher healthcare costs that are draining savings.

In this video:

• Food additives generally regarded as safe. 00:52
• Declining U.S. life expectancy. 1:19
• Are you what you eat? 2:10
• Obtain essential nutrients from natural foods. 3:19
• Home cooking reduces synthetic ingredients. 6:31
• Organic meals for less than prepared foods. 8:02

Health Risks Of Vitamins Vs Minerals

The symptoms some people associate with foods like gluten, lectins, and others may be due to taking high dose vitamin and mineral supplements. Why manufacturers want consumers to believe all vitamin and mineral supplements are safe. Their safety is usually associated with healthy individuals. People who are overweight, have high blood pressure, or diabetes are not healhty. The warnings on supplement bottles are usually inadequate.

In this video:

• Difference between vitamins and minerals. 00:48
• A little is essential, a lot can be fatal. 2:26
• Water soluble vitamins; the safest vitamins. 3:13
• Fat soluble vitamins tolerable upper limits. 3:51
• High dose mineral supplement health risks. 4:58

The Hidden Costs Of Prepared Food Diets

Many people eat a prepared food diet. It is convenient in the short-term. The increase in serious chronic diseases and cancer reveal the short-term convenience and have costly long-term consequences.

In tis video:

• Myth: Prepared foods save time & money. 00:40
• Letting corporations control your diet. 2:53
• Excess body fat increases profits. 4:01
• Hidden costs of prepared food diets. 5:28

The Chemical American Diet (CAD)

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

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

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

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

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

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