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

Marketing Tricks: OTC Hearing Aids

Heavily advertised low cost over-the-counter hearing aids may not improve hearing as claimed or require more manual adjustments like volume control.

They also are not designed for people with severe hearing loss.

In this video:

• OTC hearing aids versus PSPAs. 00:40
• OTC hearing aid marketing hype. 1:27
• Protecting your hearing. 4:46

Marketing Tricks: What The FDA Does And Does Not Approve

How some companies increase sales by implying FDA approval, certification, or registration and even use FDA logos. The lowest level is FDA certified. A process where a manufacturer claims their device is identical to an FDA approved device.

In this video:

• What is the FDA? 00:41
• What the FDA approves and does not approve. 1:32
• What is FDA registered? 4:03
• Checking For FDA Approved, Cleared, or Authorized Medical Devices 5:38

What You See Versus What You Get

How prepared food makers use stylized photos and deceptive descriptions to market and sell their products. And, it most cases it is perfectly legal.

In This video:

• Food photo inaccuracy. 00:39
• Enlarged to show unrealistic details. 3:05
• Food name inaccuracy. 4:32
• The art of deception. 5:29

Allergens & Prepared foods

Food allergies can be serious even life-threatening. Most prepared foods list major allergens like eggs, milk, soy, and wheat, but there can be a warning in fine print about cross-contamination by other allergens.

A new trend to eliminate the need for a cross-contamination warning is adding the allergens to the food. This is convenient for the food maker, but reduces the variety available to consumers with food allergies.

In this video:

• Major food allergens. 00:41
• Allergens and prepared foods. 2:11
• Cross-contamination. 2:53
• Adding food allergens to reduce production costs and liability. 4:15
• Restaurant foods and allergens. 5:26

Fresh Produce Facts & Myths

U.S. supermarket fresh fruit and vegetables are not as fresh or nutritious as you think. Produce harvested a year or more before being sold can be called or labeled fresh.

In this video:

• Definition of fresh produce. 00:46
• Fresh versus frozen produce nutrients. 2:26
• Why low prices may not save you money. 4:59
• Do consumers have a right to know how fresh is supermarket produce? 6:16

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

Marketing Tricks: Food Labels & Ads

U.S. food makers use a variety of names, labels and certifications to make highly processed foods appear to be healthy foods, and how supermarkets use weekly ads to lure shoppers into their stores to buy highly processed foods.

In this video:

• Same name, lower quality. 00:47
• Meaningless marketing terms. 2:28
• Sales boosting certifications…for a small fee. 4:26
• Misleading supermarket sale prices. 6:41
• The high cost of deregulation. 9:50

15 High Vitamin E Foods

Vitamin E is an essential nutrient and antioxidant. This video features 15 sample foods high in vitamin E.

In this video:

• What is vitamin E? 00:39
• Vitamin E functions. 1:08
• Vitamin E deficiency. 1:38
• Vitamin E RDA and contraindications. 2:16
• 15 high vitamin E foods. 3:59

Direct To Consumer Food Sensitivity Test Facts & Myths

Food sensitivity is a marketing term not a medical condition. Some foods do cause allergic reactions and intolerances. There are tests for food allergies. This video shares some of the facts and myths about home food sensitivity tests, their accuracy, and potential risks.

In this video:

• What is food sensitivity testing? 00:52
• Sensitivity versus allergy and intolerance. 2:59
• Direct to consumer food sensitivity tests. 4:47
• Immunoglobulin G (IgG) & Immunoglobulin E (IgE). 5:39
• Direct to consumer food sensitivity test risks. 6:47
• Food sensitivity facts and myths.

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