Low Carb Vs. Low Calorie Diet

Many people believe a low carb diet is a low calorie diet. Many low carb foods are high calorie foods. If you need to reduce the number of calories in your diet, you need to reduce the amount of high calorie foods in your diet.

In this video:

• What is low carb? 00:40
• Carbs and food energy (calories). 1:20
• Good versus bad carbs. 2:00
• Low carb, high calorie comfort foods. 3:39

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

Do Your Meals Provide 30 Grams Of Protein?

Many healthy people eat diets providing more protein than they need. The supplement industry wants you to believe otherwise.

Some guidelines recommend getting 30 or more grams per meal (90 g per day).

Take this videos quiz to check if know what meals provide less, more, or equal 30 grams of protein.

In this video:

• How much is 30 grams of protein? 00:40
• Protein and amino acids. 1:24
• Animal versus plant protein. 2:10
• 30 grams of protein meal quiz. 3:37

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

Brown Rice Versus Black And Wild Rice

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

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

Copyright 2012-2024 DiTuro Productions, LLC