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

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

Marketing Tricks: Continuous Glucose Monitors

Ads for Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) emphasize the benefits and ignore the risks. This video reviews some of the benefits and risks of CGMs.

In this video:

• What is a continuous glucose monitor (CGM)? 00:53
• Is a continuous glucose monitor continuous? 2:59
• Do CGMs eliminate finger sticks? 3:29
• Who can use a CGM? 4:23
• Do CGM’s reduce your A1Cc? 5:56
• CGM contraindications. 7:47

Fast Food Calorie Quiz

How well do you know the number of calories in popular fast food items? Supersized fast food and prepared meals provide more calories than most people need. One meal can have a days worth of calories. Check your knowledge for 25 foods and beverages.

In this video:

• Quick serve, fast food and prepared foods. 00:42
• Calories and excess body fat. 1:19
• Satisfying wants versus needs. 2:24
• Fast food calorie quiz. 4:06

Essential Nutrients: Fad vs. Balanced Diets

Many popular fad diets are nutrient deficient diets marketed to overweight and obese people with one or more chronic diseases.

Nutrient packed balanced diets like Mediterranean and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) have been around for decades and in some cases millennia. They do not generate as much publicity or interest because they are not rapid weight loss diets. By eating a diet providing the nutrients your body needs, one can lose excess weight and keep it off.

In this video:

• What are essential nutrients? 00:35
• Nutrient abundant & deficient diets. 1:42
• Low carb 2:45
• Paleo 5:53
• Keto 7:20
• DASH 7:49
• Mediterranean 9:13

Mindful Eating Part II

Mindful eating is a diet that provides the nutrients your body needs while reducing the risk for chronic diet related disease. Obesity and chronic diet related disease are usually caused by diets high in prepared foods engineered to satisfy wants and not your bodies needs. Part II of this of this two part video provides mindful eating tips.

In this Video:

• Mindful Eating tips.

Mindful Eating Part I

Mindful eating is a diet that provides the nutrients your body needs while reducing the risk for chronic diet related disease. Obesity and chronic diet related disease are usually caused by diets high in prepared foods engineered to satisfy wants and not your bodies needs. In Part I of this two part video:

Part I
• Diet versus dieting. 0:38
• Wants versus needs. 2:03
• Letting food be your medicine. 4:32
• Why fad diets fail. 5:53

Part II
• Mindful Eating tips.

Added Sugar Versus Natural Sugar

Sugar is a leading contributor to weight gain and type 2 diabetes. Some low carb diets eliminate many foods providing natural sugars without providing any scientific evidence. Some people believe anyone with type 2 diabetes should not eat sweet fruit. Research shows people eating high plant food diets including sweet fruit are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

For many overweight Americans, the problem is not foods providing natural sugars, the problem is diets high in processed foods with added sugars.

In this video:

• What is sugar?
• Added versus natural sugar.
• Dietary sugar and blood sugar.
• Dietary sugar and diabetes.
• Dietary sugar and weight gain.
• Recommended limits for added sugars.

Is Fruit Good Or Bad Carbs?

Is fresh and minimally processed fruit good or bad carbs? Does eating fruit increase your risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes? Included in this video:

• Fruit carbs.
• Fresh vs. processed fruit.
• Fresh fruit nutrition.
• Whole fruit vs. fruit juice.
• Fruit and obesity.
• Fruit, blood sugar, & diabetes.

Carbs, Sugar, And Diabetes Facts & Myths

Carbohydrates are fiber, sugars, and starch.

Diets high in sugar and starch can overwhelm the pancreases ability to make insulin. Insulin allows cells to use sugar for energy. Unused sugar is converted to body fat.

A constant supply of sugar can dangerous increase blood sugar levels resulting in type 2 diabetes. In most cases type 2 diabetes is caused by diet and lifestyle. The risk of type 2 diabetes increase with a sedentary lifestyle.

Low carb diets have been around for decades. Today two popular low carb diets are Paleo and Keto. Some low carb diets restrict carbohydrates to 50 grams a day compared to 200 to 300 grams a day for many balanced diets.

Is it necessary to severely restrict carbohydrates to prevent or cure type 2 diabetes. In most cases, the answer is no.

This video shares some the facts and myths about carbohydrates and diabetes.

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