Health Risks Of Vitamins Vs Minerals

The symptoms some people associate with foods like gluten, lectins, and others may be due to taking high dose vitamin and mineral supplements. Why manufacturers want consumers to believe all vitamin and mineral supplements are safe. Their safety is usually associated with healthy individuals. People who are overweight, have high blood pressure, or diabetes are not healhty. The warnings on supplement bottles are usually inadequate.

In this video:

• Difference between vitamins and minerals. 00:48
• A little is essential, a lot can be fatal. 2:26
• Water soluble vitamins; the safest vitamins. 3:13
• Fat soluble vitamins tolerable upper limits. 3:51
• High dose mineral supplement health risks. 4:58

Dietary Supplement Health Risks

How some dietary supplements can interfere with prescription drugs, produce false test results, and be fatal.

In this video:

• What are dietary supplements? 00:42
• Clinically unproven. 2:44
• Supplements that prevent nutrient deficiencies. 5:00
• A little is good, a lot can be fatal. 5:59
• Potentially dangerous supplements. 7:44

Iron Overload

When vitamins and minerals come from natural foods, the risk of an overdose is low. Many people take dietary supplements, especially fat soluble vitamins and minerals believing if a little is good, a lot should be better. While the body does not store most water soluble vitamins, it can store some minerals like iron. Excess iron usually ends up in the heart and liver. Untreated iron overload can be fatal. This video shares some of the risks of iron overload.

In this video:

• Why is iron essential? 00:53
• Iron and ferritin. 1:21
• Health risks due to iron overload. 2:24
• Medically reducing high blood iron levels. 4:48
• Sources of dietary iron. 5:39
• Foods that increase iron absorption. 6:27
• Foods that decrease iron absorption. 8:01

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.

Metabolic Syndrome

This video provides an overview of metabolic symptom, its risk factors, symptoms and how to prevent and minimize your risk for developing it.

In this video:

• What is metabolic syndrome? 00:40
• Metabolic risk factors. 1:14
• Risks of having metabolic syndrome. 3:52
• What causes metabolic syndrome. 4:40
• Symptoms of metabolic syndrome. 6:16
• Treatment. 7:10

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