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

29 Low Phosphorous Foods

Phosphorous is an essential nutrient. Some prepared foods like colas and cured meats have high levels of added phosphorous.  This video highlights 29 plant and animal foods providing between 7 mg and 320 mg of phosphorus per serving.

In this video:

• Phosphorous: an essential nutrient. 00:33
• Phosphorous in natural foods. 00:57
• Phosphorous and prepared foods. 1:18
• 28 low phosphorous foods. 2:07

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

30 More Low Potassium Foods

30 foods providing 210 mg or less of potassium per serving for people needing to restrict potassium due to chronic kidney disease.

In this video:

• Why a low potassium diet? 00:30
• Nutrition label potassium daily value. 1:09
• 30 low potassium foods. 1:35

Garlic
Radishes
Paste, White, Cooked
Jalapeno Pepper
Endive, Raw
Scallions (Green Onions)
Onions
Apricots
Couscous, cooked
Figs
Plums
Milk Chocolate
Rapini (Broccoli Rabe)
Celery
Blueberries
Walnuts
Tangerine (Mandarin Orange)
Peaches
Green Bell Pepper
Turnips
Shrimp
Dark Chocolate
Spinach, Raw
Green Peas
Red Bell Pepper
Bulgur, dry
Peanuts, Roasted
Mustard Greens, Raw
Almonds
Peanut Butter

High Copper, Zinc and Selenium Foods

Sample of common foods high in the essential trace minerals, copper, zinc, and selenium.

In this video:

• What are trace minerals? 00:39
• Copper’s functions, RDA and foods. 1:40
• Selenium’s functions, RDA and foods. 4:10
• Zinc’s functions, RDA and foods. 6:11

Vitamin K1 vs K2 and K3

Vitamin K is an essential vitamin needed primarily for blood clotting. K1 is abundant in plant foods. Some high protein and animal food fad diets claim K2 from animal foods is also essential. Unlike K1 that must come from your diet, gut bacteria makes most form of K2. This video shares the difference between K1, K2 and K3.

In this video:

• What are vitamins K1, K2 and K3? 00:38
• Vitamin K function. 2:50
• Vitamin K deficiency. 3:12
• Vitamin K RDA. 3:48

10 High Vitamin B9 (Folate) Foods

This video shares what is vitamin B9 (folate), its functions, RDA, and 10 foods high in vitamin B9.

In this video:

• What is vitamin B9? 00:47
• B9 functions. 1:16
• B9 deficiency. 1:47
• B9 RDA 2:34
• 10 High vitamin B9 foods (spinach, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, Romaine lettuce, Avocado, broccoli, mustard greens, kidney beans, oranges, peanuts). 4:34

This video is the seventh in a seven part series about essential B vitamins.

10 High Vitamin B7 (Biotin) Foods

This video shares what is vitamin B7 (biotin), its functions, and 10 high foods high in B7.

In this video:

• What is vitamin B7? 00:45
• B7 functions. 1:09
• B7 deficiency. 1:24
• B7 RDA 2:42
• 10 High vitamin B7 foods (beef liver, eggs, pork, beef, sunflower seeds, sweet potato, almonds, tuna, spinach). 3:52

NOTE: This video is the sixth in a seven part series about essential B vitamins.

Copyright 2012-2024 DiTuro Productions, LLC