Creating A Sustainable Diet
- At February 10, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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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
2023 Diet Tips: Small Changes-Huge Health Benefits
- At January 08, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
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
Essential Nutrients: Fad vs. Balanced Diets
- At February 22, 2022
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
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
The Never Say Diet Weight Loss Plan
- At January 26, 2022
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
Every year millions of people do on a special weight loss diet. For most overweight people, excess weight (body fat) is due to a diet providing too many calories. Excess calories are converted to body fat. The human body is very efficient storing body fat.
Conversely, millions of people eat foods banned by many diets and live long, healthy lives. This video shares why and how to cut calories and lose weight without eliminating foods you love.
In this video:
• What is a diet? 00:42
• When to omit foods from your diet. 2:16
• Do you need dietary supplements? 5:48
• Nutrients and calories. 7:24
• Cutting calories not foods you love. 10:02
Why Americans Should Learn Basic Metric Units
- At December 12, 2021
- By Daniel
- In Education, New Video
- 0
The U.S. is the only country than still uses Imperial units for weights and measures. Many online retailers are promoting and selling products using metric units. The comments frustrated Americans make when they discover they received less than what they thought they were buying would be humorous if it wasn’t for the fact that some unscrupulous sellers take advantage of American buyers limited knowledge of metric units.
Knowing basic metric units also benefits Americans traveling abroad and dieting since nutrition information in usually in grams or milligrams not ounces.
In this video:
• “Why don’t you use metric?”
• A brief history of U.S. metric system. 1:09
• The U.S. is more metric than Americans think. 4:20
• The cost of not using metric units. 6:51
• Cooking and dieting with metric versus U.S. weights and measures. 7:35
• Basic metric units you should know. 12:18
10 Dumb Diet Tips
- At July 22, 2019
- By Daniel
- In Diet
- 0
Americans are bombarded by dieting tips. Some are helpful like eat more high fiber foods and less processed foods. Other tips can be confusing or even misleading.
For example, nuts are considered a healthy food and Americans are advised to add nuts to their diet on a daily basis. Since most countries are use the metric (SI) units of measure, people in those countries may be advised to eat 30 grams of nuts daily (about 1 ounce, 160 calories). Some diet experts advise Americans to eat a “handful” of nuts daily. Depending on your hand size and how many nuts you can hold you could eat up more than 300 calories of nuts daily. For a 2,000 calorie diet, 300 calories is 15% of total calories versus 8% for one ounce of nuts.
This video looks at ten common diet tips and why they are not as helpful as they can or should be.