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

Refined Flour Versus Sugar

Nutritional difference between refined flour and sugar and why sugar heads the list of many prepared foods.

In This Video:

• Why refine sugar and flour? 00:42
• Why sugar heads ingredient lists? 1:33
• Flour & sugar nutrition facts. 2:13
• Flour & sugar vitamin & minerals facts. 2:36
• Take aways. 3:05

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

Tips For Novice Cooks: Recipe Blog Nutrition And Stylized Food Photos

Most cookbooks, cooking shows, and blogs use professional stylized photos you should ignore. In most cases your version will not look like the photo or video. Even foods plated by a cooking shoe host are stylized to make them more appealing. It is legal, but deceptive. Courts allow stylized photos citing “reasonable consumers” know they do not represent the actual foods.

In addition to stylized food photos are nutrition facts that are too good to be true. All commercially prepared foods must have accurate nutrition information. The requirement does not apply to recipe blogs. Nutrition information that sounds too good to be true probably is.

In this video:

• Ignore stylized recipe photos. 00:33
• Recipe blog nutrition facts accuracy. 2:48

Tips For Novice Cooks: Recipe Ingredient Measurements & Temperature

Some recipes require more accurate ingredients measurements than others. For example, cakes, muffins, biscuits, pastries and pie crusts.

Most recipe blogs and cookbooks using measuring cups do not specify which type of cup to use; wet or dry. There are significant difference that can drastically affect a recipe.

Also, some cake recipes specify sifted ingredients and room temperature ingredients.

This video clarifies when to use room temperature ingredients, what room temperature means and how to accurately measure ingredients.

In this video:

• Why use room temperature ingredients? 00:30
• Accurately measuring ingredients. 2:15

Tips For Novice Cooks: Anatomy Of A Recipe

Many recipes promote failure instead of success. Recipe blogs now dominate the internet. Anyone can become an expert cook, nutritionist, diet expert, and food photographer. At least according to their blog.

Many recipe blogs provide more advertisements than useful information. Blogs that offer nutrition facts can provide erroneous or misleading information to make their recipe appear to be healthier than it actually is.

In this video:

• Anatomy of a recipe. 00:37
• Recipes are a guide. 1:38
• Beware of inaccurate statements and tips. 4:37

Tips For Novice Cooks Video Series

Prepared foods account for 60% of the American diet. The trend from home cooking to prepared foods has increased since the 1980’s. The results have been decreasing life expectancy and increasing heart disease and diabetes.

The problem is not eating prepared foods, but eating the wrong prepared foods. Comfort foods that are high in calories and sodium and low in most essential nutrients.

Many Americans pay for prepared foods (restaurant, fast foods, store bought) with credit not disposable cash.

Home cooked meals, despite misinformation from the food industry, saves thousands of dollars a year per person and healthier than prepared foods costing much more.

With home cooking, you can eat steak for less than the cost of a hamburger meal.

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

Milled Flax Seeds Vs. Wheat Flour

Nutritional comparison of milled flaxseeds (meal, flour) and wheat flours.

In this video:

• What are flaxseeds? 00:41
• Ground versus whole flaxseeds. 00:59
• Milled flax versus flax flour. 1:21
• Flax and ALA omega-3. 2:14
• Flaxseed versus wheat flour. 3:40
• Flax and flour nutrition. 5:18
• Flaxseed and flour protein. 6:14

Ketosis Facts & Myths

Keto diets are very low carb diets. Its goal is replacing glucose with ketones for fuel. Many keto diets are low carb diets that can cause vitamin and mineral deficiencies and have negative long-term health benefits. Many keto recipes provide more calories than a balanced diet of animal and plant foods. Fats make up 60% to 80% of a recipes calories, and fat has more than twice the calories (9 per gram) of carbohydrates and protein.

In this video:

• What is ketosis? 00:52
• What are keto diets? 2:11
• Keto diet and calorie counting. 4:46
• Ketosis without keto diets. 6:59
• Reduce calories, reduce carbs, or both? 8:25
• Keto diets and essential nutrients. 9:35
• Ketosis and protein. 11:02
• Ketosis essential vitamins and minerals. 12:15

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