Why You May Not Need 4,700 mg Of Potassium Daily
- At March 24, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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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
- At February 10, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Education, New Video
- 0
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
- At February 06, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Education, New Video
- 0
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
- At February 01, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, New Video
- 0
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
- At January 29, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, New Video
- 0
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
- At December 26, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
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
- At August 08, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
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
- At July 26, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
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
Using A Kitchen Scale For Cooking And Portion Control
- At March 26, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
A majority of overweight and obese people eat too many calories for their activity level. Contrary to popular belief, it only takes a few hundred, not thousand, extra calories to go from a healthy weight to obese.
Unlike most countries using the metric system, Americans use the imperial system of cups to weigh most recipe ingredients. The accuracy of measuring cups can vary more than the accuracy of affordable kitchen scales. A good quality scale is accurate to within 1 gram (1/28th oz). In addition to cups, Americans deal with vague descriptions like small, medium, or large bananas etc. Cups and sizes are used by the USDA and FDA for serving sizes. In some cases, serving sizes are specified in grams, but most Americans do not own a kitchen scale and cannot measure foods in grams.
Whether grams or ounces, when it comes to diets, excess calories becomes body fat. Is a meal serving of frozen potatoes the 85 grams (3 oz) on the nutrition label or more. Is a steak 4 oz (113 g) or more. In most cases, it is much more.
Using a kitchen scale, you can create perfectly portioned meals providing all or most essential nutrients. And, you are in control of your diet and ingredients not a faceless corporation.
In this video:
• Diet and portion control. 00:42
• Weight versus volume (cups). 2:23
• Selecting a kitchen scale. 4:45
• Using a kitchen scale for cooking. 8:45
• Using a kitchen scale for portion control. 10:45
Balanced Versus Unbalanced Diets
- At March 06, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
- 0
Many fad diets require supplemental protein, vitamins, and minerals. In some cases the supplements are available form the diet promoter. Until the 20th century, essential nutrients came from foods not supplements. Eating a balanced diet should provide a healthy person with all or most essential nutrients without excess calories. Many people eat high calorie unbalanced processed food diets. Processed foods are designed to satisfy wants not needs.
In this video:
• What is a balanced diet? 00:41
• Balanced diet and supplements. 2:14
• Balanced diet and exercise. 3:29
• Balanced diet and aging. 4:38
• Balanced versus unbalanced diet examples. 6:27
• Balanced diet tips. 7:49