Category: Video Health Tip

Buying healthy salad dressing

Which salad dressing is best? Salad dressings can be a major reason why your past diets or attempts at weight loss have failed. Salad dressings, believe it or not, can be one of the most unhealthy items in grocery stores. And this is really a shame too, because they’re often used by well-meaning people who

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Investigating baby food ingredients

Everyone agrees baby food should be nutritious and safe. Nobody wants to harm babies, right? Why then do food companies routinely put profit before the health of your child? Tony goes in depth in this video touching on both Pedialyte and baby food. Pedialyte Pedialyte is a popular product for children to provide electrolytes and

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Oatmeal for the win

Should I soak my oats? Pound-for-pound, oatmeal is one of my favorite food staples of my diet because it’s very nutritious, inexpensive, and versatile . As is discuss oatmeal in this video keep in mind, you should always buy organic and soak your oats overnight to reduce phytic acid and improve your absorption of nutrients.

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Ditch the chewing gum

Chewing gum seems harmless, and there are harmless versions of it, however many of the mainstream chewing gum brands we find in grocery stores have chemical ingredients that are very concerning. Specifically, the carcinogenic preservative BHT and aspartame. Always check your gum ingredients for these two chemicals. BHT is so controversial, that food giant General

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Condiment shopping

A little history lesson The first video begins with the cold hard truth that’s difficult for a lot of people to swallow. Kraft foods, the largest food and beverage manufacturer in the United States, was actually owned by Phillip Morris beginning in 1989. Yes, that Phillip Morris. The second video expands upon that in further

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Buy this not that: Croutons

Don’t overlook croutons Croutons seem harmless. They’re just little tiny cubes of flavor and texture added to your favorite salads right? Honestly, I was really surprised how harmful mainstream croutons are when I flipped the package over. This is really unfortunate because so many people trying hard to be healthy (eating salads) are getting scammed

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Shopping for ice cream

Ice cream is known as a treat to indulge with but you don’t have to harm your health while enjoy ice cream, as I break down in this video, some frozen treats are better than others. What’s the sweetener? The first thing I look for is food dyes which are represented by a color and

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What is Mrs. Buttersworth hiding?

Maple syrup is a classic staple of so many of our kitchen. Pancakes and waffles just aren’t the same without the sweet goodness of this tree sap. In this video, I’ll surprise you by showing that what the iconic Mrs. Buttersworth is hiding in plain sight. Unfortunately, Mrs. Buttersworth isn’t alone and a lot of

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Sports drinks and coconut water

You’ll often see people at the gym working up a sweat and drinking sports drinks like Gatorade. Don’t be that guy (or girl). If you look at the label of these drinks, you’re going to see sugar often listed as the second ingredient. Remember, the first few ingredients listed on the label, are the most

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Saving money on produce

How’d he do that? In this video, I purchase the same exact apple twice from the same grocery store. The first time I paid $1.81 for the apple and the second time I paid $1.71 for the apple? Why? I removed the stem from the apple and removed it from the plastic bag. Why pay

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