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Reality TV meets the new MyPlate Dietary Guidelines in this real-life video example of a teen accepting a new challenge each week. Registered dietitian Christina Meyer-Jax gives our teen, Lexi, advice, feedback and encouragement with four dietary/fitness challenges, including:
Eat balanced. Move more.
Eat more good stuff.
Eat less bad stuff.
Move!
Watch Lexi transform as she increases her food IQ and activity level.
54321+8 Count Down to Your Health DVD gives an overview of six things teens and adults can do each day to stay healthy. Viewers will discover and learn about the importance of fruits and veggies, drinking water, positive mental health, limiting screen time, getting physical activity and enough sleep. The countdown provides an easy way to remember the expert-recommended amounts of each one. In this DVD, medical professionals share the facts behind the numbers and students share some practical advice about how to live the countdown.
Countdown to Your Health for Kids DVD gives an overview of the six things kids can do each day to stay healthy. Perfect for elementary students, kids will discover the importance of eating fruits and vegetables, drinking water, having positive mental health, limiting time spent in front of a screen, getting plenty of physical activity and enough sleep. This DVD focuses on the numbers for health essential for kids, including an overview of age-appropriate sleep recommendations, presented by medical professionals giving the facts behind the numbers and kids who give practical advice on how they live the countdown.
When's the last time you ate off a pyramid? The Create a Great Plate MyPlate Dietary Guidelines DVD is based on the USDA's new MyPlate campaign. The DVD shows teens what healthy eating looks like, and tells them how to:
Go into the kitchen with Registered Dietitian Melissa Halas-Liang as she shows two students how some of their favorite meals can be both nutritious and delicious by using the MyPlate guidelines. Key messages for each food group are explained while they apply the dietary guidelines to a variety of favorite foods, including:
Favorite foods like tacos and pizza
Breakfast
Snacks
The kitchen how-to segments are interspersed with interviews of real kids eating and talking about their favorite nutritious foods!
Nutrients are the substances in food that work to keep our bodies healthy and eating a variety of foods from the food groups will give your body the nutrients it needs maintain good health. Registered Dietitian Melissa Halas-Liang and two students explore the functions, benefits and sources of the six types of nutrients, including:
When women are pregnant or breastfeeding, they have special nutritional needs. Registered Dietitian Melissa Halas-Liang explains the nutritional considerations for women and their new babies during pregnancy and while breastfeeding, including:
Do you ever stop and wonder what's on YOUR plate? Discover what's on the new MyPlate food icon developed by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). This DVD is an overview of good food choices and the MyPlate food guide that highlights the best choices from each food group. Includes interviews with teens about their favorite healthy foods.
Take a walk down the aisle of any supermarket or chemist these days and you are bound to be confronted by shelves full of nutrient supplements, ranging from vitamin A to zinc. But are they worth the price you pay for them? This information-packed program takes a balanced look at the essential nutrients needed by the body, the type of person who is most likely to take dietary supplements, and what differences - both good and bad - they can make to our everyday life. This program is a fresh look at a modern multi-billion dollar industry, including the rules of product labeling, and the cunning marketing that leverages off well-known sporting celebrities.
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Most young people acknowledge the need for fuels that won't harm the planetˇXbut do they realize that also applies to fueling the body? This program guides students through the basic concepts of healthy eating and the principal nutrients that keep the human anatomy functioning properly. Outlining the properties and benefits of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, water, vitamins, and minerals, the video explains the difference between macronutrients and micronutrients, illustrates the functions of monosaccharides and disaccharides, highlights the virtues of whole grains, pinpoints the dangers of dehydration and vitamin deficiency, and presents eye-catching animation and in-depth commentary from nutrition experts clarifying each topic.
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Whether they're viewed from a behavioral standpoint or from a profound psychological perspective, one thing is clearˇXeating disorders stress the body's systems and put individuals at increased risk for disease, infertility, organ failure, and death. This video pinpoints the dangers of anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and other eating disorders, exploring their possible causes as well as ways to overcome them. Showing how food consumption (or avoidance of it) is often the one thing that eating-disorder sufferers feel they can control, the program features dramatized case studies that enlighten viewers in a nonconfrontational way. With the aid of expert commentary, it also provides practical information on identifying signs of eating disorders in others and emphasizes the importance of persuading them to seek professional help.
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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 weightˇXcommitment, 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 technological issues. Viewers learn about Body Mass Index, or BMI; the risks of being overweight or obese; ways in which healthy eating and exercise help to prevent a range of diseases; and the benefits of fiber, vitamins, minerals, and proper hydration. Students will also gain an understanding of calorie intake and expenditure using a simple formula.
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This informative program explains the nutrients our bodies require for optimum health and how these requirements change throughout our lives. It reviews the stages of our life cycle, the basic nutritional needs at each stage, and encourages thoughtful and well informed meal planning for three important life stages: toddlers, pregnancy and the elderly. The content is presented in a clear manner with lots of real-life examples and practical tips from experts in the field. With this information, viewers will understand the nutritional needs and therefore dietary requirements needed, and the effects that deficiencies can have on our health.
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This program investigates the factors that play significant roles in determining the foods we love and those we just can't stomach! With help from nutritionist Ros Ryan, and the experiences and opinions of everyday people from around the world, we reveal the physiological, psychological, social, and economic factors that affect our choice of foods. From satiety - our bodies telling us whether we are hungry or full - to positive and negative associations we have with certain foods, and the impact of culture, religion, lifestyle, peers, and the media, this is a rewarding examination of why we prefer certain types of foods over others.
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Understanding Nutritional Basics: Ideas, Insights, and Information is designed to provide an easyto-understand guide on nutrition for athletes at all competitive levels and interests. The DVD reviews the key concepts involved in sports nutrition, and details what athletes should eat and why if they want to be at their competitive best. The DVD also features a special section that answers several of the most commonly asked questions that athletes have concerning sports nutrition.
Are you eating enough of the right foods to keep yourself healthy? Severe health problems can arise if our body doesn't receive the correct amounts of specific nutrients. But where do these nutrients come from? And in what foods are they found? This program explores the nutritional dangers of not eating a balanced and nutritional diet. We discuss the functions of nutrients as well as different types of food and energy sources. We investigate the difference between macro and micro nutrients, the consequences and associated health problems associated with a poor diet, and the importance of eating a variety of food types in moderation.
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The ever-increasing pace of life for people of all ages means it is critical to plan for healthy eating accordingly.
In this program, teenager Jesse takes us through a dramatised story of how, once again, his mother has to work back and puts him on a mission of preparing the dinner for that night, with the usual parting instruction: "ˇK.a 'healthy' dinner, JesseˇK." Jesse, by his own admission, is just not one hundred per cent sure about what real healthy food is but he's willing to find out. In following his story, the program covers areas including the function of food; understanding nutrients; today's fast-paced society; designing menus; and different menus. We also hear from two professional dieticians, Melanie McGrice and Ingrid Hilton. In an engaging and thorough way, this program covers important areas about healthy and nutritious menu planning.
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Fast food often gets a bad rap. High amounts of saturated fat, trans fat, sugar, sodium, and calories, and a lack of fruits and vegetables make most fast food choices not the best in terms of nutrition. Join Rickey and Genevieve as they explore the world of fast food with fun and humor as they help viewers learn how to make the healthiest choices when eating on the go at fast food restaurants.
Reviews
"Two smiling, upbeat teens offer facts about good nutrition and tips for eating healthy in our fast food worldˇKthe teen presenters may make the information more palatable to viewers. Preteens and teens in health classes may be receptive to the information and think twice before eating fast foods." - School Library Journal, January, 2010
"The video was fun and creative and it shows better choices for teens to make when at fast food resaurants; showing the diseases tha tcome with bad eating habits is very important. It was good because you were learning from teens." - Mid-Hudson Library System, November, 2009
"Good video--creative, hip and informative. I don't think kids know the problems of fast food and could really help them choose better food." - Mid-Hudson Library System, November, 2009
In a world of countless food choices and nutrition messages, it can be challenging to know what teens should and shouldn't eat. Host and two teens set the facts straight about breakfast, body image, portion size, physical activity, the importance of fruits and vegetables, beverages, significant nutrients, late night snacking, vegetarian diets, and acne in this fun and entertaining title.
Developing and maintaining a healthy and well balanced diet is just as important for the elderly as any other age group. For elderly people who can no longer look after themselves, it is of vital importance that adequate meals are provided that will meet the nutritional requirements of this age group.
Nutrition sources, portion size and meal frequency are all covered, as well as strategies for getting older people to eat.
Aged care workers will find this program invaluable when tending to the nutritional and dietary needs of the elderly.
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During adulthood, with the exception of when a female is pregnant, physical growth stops and our bodies enter a maintenance stage that continues until our last days.
This program explores the complex range of nutrients required during our adolescence/youth and adulthood.
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Good nutrition for children does not just happen; it takes knowledge and planning. The registered dietitian in the presentation increases our understanding of nutritional guidelines and the affects of early nutrition on growth and development. Viewers explore the distinct nutritional needs of young children during four stages: birth to 4-months, 4-12-months, 1-3-years and 4-6-years. The expert alerts parents and caregivers to negative trends in children's eating habits and shows how to promote exercise as part of a lifelong habit of good nutrition. Active, young children, parents and caregivers illustrate ways to incorporate healthy eating habits into our daily lives.
The nutritional needs and challenges adolescents face can be difficult. A registered dietician will identify specific nutrients needed to meet the physical, mental and emotional demands of teen-agers. Did you know certain foods can make you feel happy, sad, sluggish or tired? Learn how different foods affect you. The presentation also delicately confronts symptoms, side effects and causes of eating disorders. You also will see the difference between healthy eating habits and unsafe "dieting."
In this program we look at the requirements for development during adulthood.
The program covers issues such as growth and development during the three stages of adulthood; importance of continuing good nutrition and exercise; the problem of weight gain; changing eating patterns; role of the Recommended Dietary Intake as a tool; metabolism; and calcium needs.
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In this program we look at the requirements for development during childhood. The program covers issues such as: when does childhood begin and end?, average weight and height gain per year, nutrients required for healthy bone and muscle development; fat cell numbers, requirements for high energy level intakes, requirements for high intake levels of calcium, phosphorus, Vitamin D, iron, zinc and B group vitamins, 'healthy' snacks and the fussy eater.
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In this program we look at the requirements for development during infancy. The program covers issues such as: the energy needs and sources of energy for infants, the pros and cons of breast vs bottle, mothers' nutrition during lactation, iron supplements, the introduction of solids, the introduction of more textured foods, eating with the family, grazing and foods to avoid.
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In this program we look at the requirements for pregnancy and prenatal development.
The program covers issues such as: nutritional requirements during each trimester, what environmental factors may affect the embryo, obtaining adequate nourishment during the early stages of pregnancy, during which women often feel nauseous, additional nutrient requirements in relation to protein, iron, calcium and zinc and the Australian Recommended Dietary Guidelines.
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