Nutrition

What Should We Eat? The Vegetarian Debate (2003)

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This program challenges all eaters to make decisions about food. Should people eat lots of meat? Just a little? None at all? Are vegetarians on to something or just a fringe group afraid to eat a creature that looks cute? Is meat a key part of a healthy diet or does it contribute to cancer and heart disease? Its easy to find extreme views on this subject, but what are the real issues?

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Length:

00:23

What Should We Eat? The Vegetarian Debate

Global Eating: Learning From Other Cultures (2003)

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What can we learn from other cultures about food and nutrition? Some countries share our love for food yet manage to avoid our epidemic of obesity. How do they do it? By studying how other cultures eat, we can gain some useful (and tasty) ideas to adapt to our own needs.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

High

Length:

00:22

Global Eating: Learning From Other Cultures

Healthy You (2011)

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Childhood Obesity Initiative | WXXI Public Broadcasting is committed to the serious issue of child obesity and wellness. It's easy to learn how to become a "Healthy You." Just check out these short videos from WXXI. The Healthy You initiative includes television and online segments on nutrition, fitness and heart health.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Middle

Nutrition (2005)

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Nutrition explains how your body uses food for many purposes: to provide energy, to keep you from getting sick and to help you grow. Viewers explore key topics such as food groups and healthy food handling, and learn how to read labels effectively to make the best food choices.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:23

My Pyramid: Choosing Nutritious Food and Healthy Activities (2007)

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What is Food? Drawing on prior knowledge our young nutritionist leads kids on an exploration of nutritious foods, healthy activities and appropriate serving sizes. They'll learn to classify and compare foods by nutritional value and food group. Students will prepare attractive examples of healthy meals and snacks and practice making healthy choices when eating out!

Grade Level:

Primary

Length:

00:21

My Pyramid: Choosing Nutritious Food and Healthy Activities

Preschoolers: Physical Development (2008)

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Viewers will learn the physical characteristics of preschoolers, how gross and fine motor skills are developed and the physical milestones that most children reach during this stage. We also take a look at the natural activities children are drawn to which help their physical development and strategies to encourage these activities.

Grade Level:

Professional

Length:

00:21

Nutrition (1995)

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Bill likes to be active, a lean, mean, nutrition machine. Find out about his eating habits in this episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

00:23

Digestion (1993)

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Take time to digest this show.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

00:23

Nutrition

What Should We Eat? The Vegetarian Debate (2003)

Global Eating: Learning From Other Cultures (2003)

Healthy You (2011)

Nutrition (2005)

My Pyramid: Choosing Nutritious Food and Healthy Activities (2007)

Preschoolers: Physical Development (2008)

Nutrition (1995)

Digestion (1993)

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