LibGuides: Human Nutrition: Streaming Video

Streaming Videos

Clean Eating: The Dirty Truth Imagine if the food you choose to eat could "clean" your body and make you feel healthier. This film separates fact from pseudo-scientific fiction to unravel the diet conspiracy gripping the West: clean eating. Meet the biggest names behind this phenomena—people whose philosophies about food have influenced a generation, redefining what we think about the food we eat. In the world of clean eating, not everything is as it seems. Rather than improving physical and psychological wellbeing, is it actually doing the opposite? A BBC Production.
Clean Eating: The Dirty Truth Imagine if the food you choose to eat could "clean" your body and make you feel healthier. This film separates fact from pseudo-scientific fiction to unravel the diet conspiracy gripping the West: clean eating. Meet the biggest names behind this phenomena—people whose philosophies about food have influenced a generation, redefining what we think about the food we eat. In the world of clean eating, not everything is as it seems. Rather than improving physical and psychological wellbeing, is it actually doing the opposite? A BBC Production.
Diet and Disease DESCRIPTION Billions of dollars are spent on health care related to poor nutrition and diet. Limiting some foods and increasing others increase our chances for a healthy future.
Food Allergies What’s the difference between an allergy, a sensitivity, and an intolerance? Why do some schools have peanut-free zones? Can people have adverse reactions to artificial dyes? In this program, an expert presents information on the most common food allergens, covering their symptoms, tests used to diagnose them, and the range of treatments available. People with celiac disease discuss good alternatives to gluten, and a young man who is lactose-intolerant explains why it isn’t so hard to avoid pizza and ice cream when sticking to a special diet. A viewable/printable worksheet is available online.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto "Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants." With those seven words, journalist Michael Pollan distills a career's worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people's health by today's industrially-driven Western diet. Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most urgent questions of our time: What should I eat to be healthy? Distributed by PBS Distribution.
The Mediterranean Diet Understand the potential health benefits from the Mediterranean Diet, and learn what foods are included and limited in the eating pattern.
The Men Who Made Us Thin Series Investigative journalist Jacques Peretti turns his attention to the diet industry where business is booming as obesity escalates. In this thought-provoking series, Peretti examines the connections between obesity and weight loss, and confronts some of those who are making a fortune from people’s desire to become thinner. Traveling to the U.S. and speaking to insiders to discover industry secrets, he examines the scientific reasons why so many diets fail long-term and why, in spite of this failure, people return to them time and time again. He charts the story of the fitness industry, asks why the food industry spends so much money promoting exercise and examines the checkered history of pharmaceutical solutions to weight loss in the race to find a safe and effective pill to make us thin. A BBC Production.
Nutrition for Infants and Children The saying “You are what you eat” is oh-so-true—especially for little ones. This video explains the importance of good nutrition for newborns, infants, and toddlers and examines its beneficial effects on their growth and development. Filled with how-to and when-to advice, the video also discusses the relative merits of breast-feeding and bottle-feeding, potential food allergies, the importance of a balanced diet and physical activity even at a young age, and special dietary preferences like vegetarianism. Perfect for new parents and parents-to-be, caregivers, and anyone who wants to learn more about feeding children from day one through age five! A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online.
The Perfect Diet For You? Fighting Fat with Science Series In a groundbreaking experiment, this series brings together the world’s foremost experts in genetics, biochemistry, neuroscience, nutrition science and applied behavioural medicine to test the latest weight-loss theory. Based on the latest scientific research, the central tenet of this theory suggests the key to sustained weight loss could be in knowing which physiological group, or ‘diet tribe’, you belong to. The only way to diet successfully is to understand your body’s individual biology and bespoke needs. The Perfect Diet For You? tests this theory on 75 people and follows the dieters through the ups and downs of their individual weight-loss programme. But will the experiment prove a success?
Postpartum Nutrition
Reading and Understanding the New Food Label This program highlights changes in the new food label, which will be required in 2018. Viewers learn how it has been simplified for the consumer and modernized based on current nutrition science.
Sugar Overload: Corporate Profits vs. Public Health With the average American consuming about 22 teaspoons of sugar every day, it’s no wonder obesity and other health problems are on the rise. But here’s what’s really frightening: eighty percent of the sugar we consume isn’t in candy or desserts—it’s hidden in foods like “healthy” breakfast cereals, yogurts, and microwave meals. This film shows how consumers are being misled about the quantity and form of sugar in their diets, and how the health effects of sugar are being downplayed as the sugar lobby continues to go on the offensive. According to some doctors, sugar is not just an empty calorie, it’s a poison as dangerous as nicotine and a leading cause of a number of serious illnesses. As well as the epidemic in child obesity, sugar has been linked to diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and many common cancers. Once again, the truth is a bitter pill. A part of the series Underhand Tactics: Investigating Corporate Culture.
To Improve Patients' Diets, The Doctor Is In The Kitchen More and more primary care doctors are using the kitchen as the place to prescribe a powerful medicine: healthy food. With poor diets linked to many deaths from preventable diseases, research has found that changing diet and becoming more active can be more effective than medication in preventing disease. Special correspondent Allison Aubrey of NPR News reports.
The Truth About Fat Fat has a reputation as public health enemy number one. We’ve spent decades trying to eat less of it—yet today we’re unhealthier than ever. This engaging film sees a group of health service workers undergo a series of eating trials—including a bold experiment to investigate the effects of giving up fat altogether. Monitoring the effects of their drastic diet, the program demonstrates how, for healthy people, low-fat diets are bad news. Discover how a portion of steamed salmon has more fat than a pizza, learn how the fat from a greasy meal turns up in your blood within a matter of hours, and find out why fat may even help with weight loss. Stuffed full to bursting with more astonishing facts and surprising experiments, this BBC Horizon program reveals how a little bit of what we like can be good for us. A BBC Production.
The Truth about Healthy Eating: Introduction DESCRIPTION Fiona Phillips tries to be a healthy eater. She will team up with experts to better understand how we can eat and drink our way to good health. She will test top-selling health drinks, supplements, and detox products. A BBC Production.
What We Eat We like to think of ourselves as having a healthy diet, eating more fruit and knowing more about which foods are good or bad for us. But what’s the truth—are we eating well or not? In this informative film, Professor Alice Roberts discovers the real story behind our modern-day eating habits. From the teabags that contain hefty doses of potentially dangerous fluoride, to the much-maligned hard cheese that could actually help you lose weight, this timely documentary profiles the foods we love to eat most. What do our choices say about us? What goes into our food and how can we get the best out of it? And, most importantly, what’s in your shopping trolley? A BBC Production.
Anti-Oxidants and Cancer DESCRIPTION Fruits and vegetables contain phytochemicals and antioxidants that help lower risk factors.

Streaming Video

Streaming video may be viewed anywhere. If prompted, enter your Logan email credentials to continue.

Search for additional videos at:

Films on Demand
10,000+ videos covering the subjects of Allied Health, Education, Health & Medicine, Biology, Family & Consumer Science, Nursing, Physical Science, and Psychology.