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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This program lays out the damage obesity is doing to our nation's children. We follow the families of four overweight kids from Boston, San Francisco and Wisconsin as they seek help and try to make positive lifestyle changes. The show also describes the strong forces that cause kids to consume too many calories and expend too little energy, with issues ranging from school lunch and the decline of physical education to whether it should be legal to...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
So far, the volunteers have successfully been losing weight, but now the honeymoon period is over. It is the final two months of the diet, and their minds and bodies are fighting back. Dr. Chris van Tulleken and Professor Tanya Byron find out if the new personalized diets will help them stay on course, and the experts reveal the scientific secrets to permanent dieting success.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This program provides viewers with the "skinny" on fat, sharing scientific insights into how to lose weight, maintain weight loss, and prevent weight gain. Stories include: weight-loss tips from a supervised program at Washington University; the history and myths of dieting; the benefits and drawbacks of bariatric surgery (in which stomach size is reduced); the importance of losing weight (even just a little) to prevent or reverse diabetes; and the...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This program gives parents and caregivers tools to make the best nutritional choices for children, starting at birth! What and how we feed our children matters; instilling healthy eating habits early in childhood can help prevent obesity later in life. Volume 1 addresses feeding your baby, from birth to age 1. Topics include: breastmilk and formula, starting solids, baby food basics, self-feeding, and family meals.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
This program gives parents and caregivers tools to make the best nutritional choices for children, starting at birth! What and how we feed our children matters; instilling healthy eating habits early in childhood can help prevent obesity later in life. Volume 1 addresses feeding your baby, from birth to age 1. Topics include: breastmilk and formula, starting solids, baby food basics, self-feeding, and family meals.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Language
English
Description
Why have rates of obesity, morbid obesity, and super obesity increased so dramatically since 2000? Backed up by meticulous research, this two-part set is a provocative, thorough investigation into the upsurge of obesity in America. The first chapter, Prevalence, documents the rapid rise of serious weight issues in all age groups since the 1970s and the cost to the health care system of treating the diseases that result. Contributing factors such as...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This program examines the scope of the obesity epidemic in America and explores the serious health consequences of being overweight and obese. Stories include: a unique long-term population study in Bogalusa, a small town in Louisiana, which linked early childhood weight problems with adult heart disease; the negative impact of excess weight on liver function; the risks and dangers of weight gain and diabetes; and the devastating societal costs of...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This program explores the obesity epidemic from a diverse array of perspectives. As we learn, a myriad of cultural factors have contributed to the weight of the nation, including agribusiness, marketing, socioeconomics, automation and convenience, and the relentless drive for corporate profits. Virtually everything about our modern world plays to our natural, biological urges to eat more and move less, preventing us from making the best choices for...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In May 2012, the Institute of Medicine and others launched a major campaign in hopes of curbing the rise of obesity in America. PBS NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez and Dr. Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health discuss the personal and public consequences of obesity.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Nearly one out of every three children born in 2000 will develop diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those numbers are prompting a series of efforts to combat obesity. PBS NewsHour correspondent health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2008
Language
English
Description
Locusts are one of the major insect pests in the world, invading vast areas of the globe at blistering speeds, demolishing crops as they go. It turns out that locusts are rabid protein seekers and can teach science a lot about the problem of human obesity. This video clip takes a close look at these hungry little insects that often start out as shy, harmless creatures.
17) Butter
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012
Language
English
Description
In this first episode, Jacques Peretti traces those responsible for revolutionizing our eating habits to find out how decisions made in America 40 years ago influence the way we eat today. The story of how high-fructose corn syrup has found its way into almost all processed foods and soft drinks and how fast food chains championed the idea of snacking between meals is examined.
19) Dietland
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called "Jennifer"--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club"--
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Perfect Human Diet is an unprecedented global exploration to find a solution to our epidemic of overweight, obesity and diet-related disease; the number one killer in America. The film bypasses current dietary group thinking by exploring modern dietary science, previous historical findings, ancestral native diets and the emerging field of human dietary evolution; revealing for the first time, the authentic human diet.
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