Summary: Greater physical stamina, better concentration at school or work, a more efficient metabolism-the evidence is overwhelming that a healthy breakfast is the key to a productive day. Yet it's the meal most likely to be skipped by children, teenagers, and adults alike. This video brings home the importance of the day's first meal by exploring the numerous mental and physical benefits of a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Depriving the human body of proper nutrition is like taking away a car's gasoline-as well as its steel, aluminum, rubber, and upholstery. This program explores the function and importance of nutrients, explaining why we need a balanced food intake and illustrating the health problems that result when we don't eat properly. Viewers learn about a wide variety of necessary vitamins and minerals...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: There's a good reason that canned and bottled beverages are called liquid candy and that term is not reserved for soda pop alone. Vitamin-enhanced waters, teas, and juices are loaded with empty calories from sugar, adding inches to Americans' waistlines and possibly contributing to rising rates of chronic disease. In this program registered dietician Susan Moores presents five segments that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Microwave meals—they’re a bonanza for retail giants, but how do they effect public health? Is the old-fashioned home-cooked dinner an endangered species? This program reports on the rise of factory-processed food and its growing impact on the general public’s diet and cooking skills. Viewers meet culinary writer Joanna Blythman, who believes prepackaged meals help perpetuate a hectic lifestyle...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program describes how the combination of the five food groups provides the human body with those elements essential for its proper functioning, how vitamins contribute to the growth and health of the human body, and why vitamins must be ingested. Finally, the program stresses the importance of good nutrition in maintaining good health and the energy levels necessary to successful living.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Trendy low-carb diets: healthy or hype? Use this video to give your students a detailed overview of simple and complex carbohydrates and how they work in the body. Also, the video questions the effectiveness and safety of low-carb diets as a weight-loss regimen. A balanced look at a complicated and controversial subject. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Eating for optimal health can be a formidable task-especially during the teens and twenties, when metabolic changes, new social situations, and more challenging responsibilities can turn life upside down. In this program, young adults discuss the diverse elements that go into making healthy food choices. Topics include the components of a balanced diet, how to interpret food labels, and how to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Each year, millions of people attempt to slim down-and fail. If super-diets and weight-loss fads don't work, what does? This program presents ten science-based approaches to losing weight without starving as volunteers put the theories to the test. Experiments reveal the relationship between plate size and food consumption, why soup is the most filling of meals, how low-fat dairy products...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Despite both an abundance of food and detailed nutritional labels, we as Americans are still unsure if we're getting the proper amounts of vitamins and minerals in our diets-so unsure that we spend around three billion dollars annually on supplements. But what is it exactly that vitamins and minerals do in the body? And are we already getting enough nutrients from what we eat or should we use...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: There’s no end to the number of “miracle” diets advertised on TV. Combat their influence with this video, which illustrates what’s really needed to reach and maintain a healthy weight - commitment, discipline, and attention to dietary details. Focusing on bad eating habits as the main factor in America’s obesity epidemic, the program also cites lack of exercise along with cultural and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: When diabetes forced Yvonne to take her health seriously, she enlisted the help of a registered dietician and started exercising. By looking at Yvonne and others, this program details how the right foods combined with an adequate amount of exercise can help you avoid certain diseases and cope with existing medical conditions. Basic exercise tips and fitness assessment pointers are combined with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Fad diets and "miracle" products are not the keys to attaining long-term physical health. This program uses the success stories of people who have made fitness a lifelong goal to illustrate the benefits of living a healthful life that includes smart food choices and regular exercise. By eating well and staying active, students can attain optimum performance both athletically and academically.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In response to the widely seen documentary Super Size Me, this video follows two college students as they eat only fast food for a month-losing weight and lowering their cholesterol levels in the process. The trick? Aaron and Ellen stay within portion sizes appropriate for their body types. The experiment was organized and documented by Dr. James Painter of Eastern Illinois University's School...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Proper nutrition plays a major role when we strive to reach our physical potential, and nutrition makes an important contribution to our well-being and ability to perform. Basal metabolism and physical activity determine the amount of food we should eat. This video shows how to eat right while in training, before competitions, and during the event. It reveals which of us should use carbohydrate...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This Telly Award-winning overview of the USDA's MyPyramid system is designed to help teens learn to balance healthy eating with physical activity for a lifetime of good wellness habits. It explains how to eat for energy, control calories, and add physical activity to daily routines-and a segment on the MyPyramid.gov Web site presents personal eating plans tailored to age, gender, size, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Telly Award-winning video dispels ten common myths about eating and sports training, setting the record straight on calories, carbs, protein, hydration, and how to eat for maximum muscle-building and performance. Using a Q&A-style format, Eat to Win eliminates confusion about dieting, under-eating, body image, energy bars and drinks, carbo-loading, caffeine, fruit juices, and how the human...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: It was a bad day for the Nutrient Team! In this humorous parody of investigative reporting, a group of inquisitive teenagers must find vital foods stolen from their science exhibit-fast. In the process, they uncover important facts about protein, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, and water. Plus, expose-style "nutrient makeovers" show just how important these substances are to good...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Fast food is a delicious-but-fattening fact of teenage existence. This video returns to Eastern Illinois University as Ellen and Aaron further explore the concepts and strategies introduced in Portion Size Me. The game plan? After calculating caloric needs based on height, weight, age, gender, and activity level, they order smarter, skip the "little extras," and eat smaller portions. The true...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Bold claims about the curative powers of "superfoods" and other trendy products represent a daunting challenge for today's consumer. How reliable are these assertions? What happens when a no-nonsense medical doctor applies rigorous scientific testing to the health hype on product labels? This program takes viewers on an eye-opening journey led by Dr. Lesley Regan, a veteran physician and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: When the USDA replaced MyPyramid with MyPlate, the goal was to simplify dietary recommendations by providing at-a-glance guidelines without having to weigh and measure at every meal. This program explores the key concepts of MyPlate and how it correlates to the more detailed Dietary Guidelines for Americans, including portion sizes, proportions, food group choices, and caloric balance. The...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Depending on who's doing the talking, the messages about food and nutrition that students hear can be confusing and even outright contradictory. In this video, the host and two teens take a closer look at controversial nutrition topics to get the straight facts on food safety, organic foods, genetically engineered foods, food allergies, MSG, functional foods, dietary supplements, and more. An...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Fast food often gets a bad rap-and for good reason! High amounts of saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, and sodium, plus a lack of fruits and vegetables, make most fast foods a great choice for flavor but a questionable choice in terms of nutrition. In this video, Rickey and Genevieve explore the world of fast food with humor as they help viewers learn how to make the healthiest choices when...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In this program cookbook author and world traveler Paulette Mitchell presents food and nutrition know-how gathered from markets around the world, but easily applied to any home-cooked meal. Mitchell demonstrates that fresh items found at most farmer's markets and grocery stores can replace packaged and processed foods, and offers tips for incorporating these ingredients into easy-to-prepare...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: In this Telly Award-winning video, a pair of high school classmates prepares for a debate on healthy eating while a nutritionist gives dietary advice and interviews with students provide a real-world view of eating habits. Topics covered over the course of Teen Nutrition include the F.A.T.S. method of eating and activity, the P.L.A.N. method of changing bad eating/activity habits, why MyPyramid...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010