Summary: This collection of 16 video clips (1 minute to 2 minutes 30 seconds each) takes a close look at nutrition and obesity. Topics range from the benefits of organic farming, to similarities between hunger and drug cravings, to links between vegetables and healthy vision, nutrients and memory, genes and body fat storage, and race and hereditary conditions. Video clips include: Nutrition * Purely...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This collection of 13 spectacular video clips offers insights into weight management, nutritional supplements, and more. Healthy and unhealthy eating, vitamins and vitamin deficiencies, food additives, and the actions of salt and water in the body are considered. Video clips include. Weight Control * Battling the Bulge: Overindulgence * Battling the Bulge: Glycemic Index * Battling the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: With energetic graphics and simple experiments, this program illustrates the entire process of digestion in human anatomy. An outline of food types and how they nourish the body begins the video, followed by a step-by-step guide through the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and large and small intestines. The processes of the liver, pancreas, colon, and rectum are also described. Distinguishing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program provides a thorough introduction to the structure and functions of the digestive tract. Using modern body-imaging techniques, the program explores where fat is located and how its distribution within the body differs from person to person. The program also explains how dietary fat is digested and assimilated by the body, how food becomes body fat, and how our lifestyles dictate...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Most animals, including humans, are essentially food-processing tubes. In this program, anatomy guru Gunther von Hagens lays out the human body's seven-meter digestive tract end-to-end, showing viewers each stop on the gastrointestinal highway. Beginning with the tongue, salivary glands, pharynx, and epiglottis, von Hagens uncovers and removes the esophagus, stomach, duodenum, small and large...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program, one segment of the widely-acclaimed The Living Body series, looks at appetite and hunger. In some of the most dramatic interior film of the series, it shows the actions of a salivary gland, the swallowing reflex, and the powerful churning of the stomach as food is broken down and processed.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program examines the processes by which the digestive system acts as a power plant for the body by turning food into energy. Topics discussed include the process of energy conversion; the structure and function of the organs of the digestive system; the role of enzymes; and maintaining a healthy digestive system.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005