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.

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

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

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