Visual Learning Systems
Nutrition: The Six Essential Nutrients for a Healthy Body
In this video, viewers are educated about the importance of nutrients for their body's proper functioning, growth, and repair. The video begins by highlighting the six major types of nutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins,...
Science360
Nutrition, Hydration & Health - Science of NFL Football
"Science of NFL Football" is a 10-part video series funded by the National Science Foundation and produced in partnership with the National Football League. In this segment, NBC's Lester Holt looks at the physically demanding pre-season...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring the Digestive and Excretory Systems: the Role of Digestion
This series of videos takes students on a fascinating journey, following food as it travels through the digestive system. Clear animations illustrate the functions of the major digestive and excretory structures. Concepts and terminology...
Visual Learning Systems
Food and Digestion: Food and Nutrients
Every day we eat a wide variety of food to provide the body with the energy it needs. All food is not the same and contains different types of nutrients. This series of programs explores the six major groups of nutrients....
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Nutrients
This video provides a basic understanding of the six categories of nutrients found in food: proteins, carbohydrates, fats and oils, vitamins, minerals, and water. It explains the importance of each nutrient and gives examples of foods...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Nutrients: The Key to a Balanced Diet
In this video, the importance of nutrients for maintaining a healthy body is emphasized. It explains the six major groups of nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water. Each nutrient is described in terms of...
Sky News
Scientists warn that cooking with vegetable oils may be more harmful than cooking with other more traditional fats
VOICED: Shows Interior shots roast meal being cooked, served and eaten in carvery restaurant, voxpops with customers, interviews with chef and doctor and graphics explainer of levels of toxic chemicals. Next time you heat up some oil to...
Curated Video
UN: NKorea has better harvest but faces shortages
FILE: Hwangju County, North Korea - 30 May 2012
1. Tilt down from sky to parched paddy fields in drought-stricken land, puddles of water are from attempts at irrigation
2. Pan of dry paddy field
3. Close up of dried and cracked rice...
Curated Video
The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it's banning trans fats in food. The artery-clogging additive is widely considered the worst kind of fat for the heart and can lead to heart attacks and death. (Nov. 7)
Heart-clogging trans fats were once a staple of the American diet, plentiful in baked goods, microwave popcorn and fried foods.
Now, mindful of the health risks, the Food and Drug Administration is getting rid of what's left of them for...
Curated Video
WWII Rationing, Gardening
Boy Scouts Collect Scrap During World War II
Collecting Scrap Metal And Rubber
FDR Appeals To Conserve Rubber
Petrol Rationing During WWII
Conserving Petrol - Carpooling, Riding The Bus, Storing Cars
Women Give Up Silk And Nylon...
Curated Video
What Makes Nutrition Advice Confusing?
Newsy's Heath and Science correspondent Lindsey Theis looks into whether nutrition advice is helpful or confusing.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Army Calls For More Waste Fats
Woman cooking bacon in kitchen / poster appeal for waste fats / General Carl Hardigg speaks / Halloran General Hospital exterior and signage / disabled veterans exit hospital on crutches / kitchen cooks pour oil in containers.
Crash Course
Alkenes and Alkynes
What is the difference in alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes? How can you remember which is which? Viewers learn about naming rules, cis-trans isomerism, hydrogenation, halogenation, polymerization, and triglycerides from a short video...
TED-Ed
What Is Fat?
An animated fat molecule explains how some fats are beneficial and some are harmful. He describes triglyceride molecules and how the chemical bonding or overall shape determines the health value of each individual type of fat. This...
American Chemical Society
Thanksgiving Turkey Compilation
Why do people get so sleepy after eating big meals? Using a fun video about Thanksgiving food, learners explore turkey and the other foods common to Thanksgiving meals. They learn how deep frying a turkey changes the way it cooks as part...
Bite Sci-zed
Saturated vs. Unsaturated Fats
What are good fats and bad fats? Learn about the structure and function of lipids and how that relates to carbon bonding. Scholars explore the structural differences between saturated and unsaturated fats and examine relevant...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Leptin Feedback Control System
Hormones come from many parts of the body, including the hormone leptin produced by fat tissues. This in turn, controls each person's hunger levels. Interested nutritionists view the feedback loop relating food intake, hormone levels,...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
PPAR-gamma Activation in the Fat Cell
Each human contains more than six times the number of fat cells than there are people on the planet. Scholars learn how fat cells work to absorb fat and release hormones through a short animation. They recognize the relationship between...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Fate of Fat
Humans need fat for energy and nutrition, but how much is too much? A short animation shows the pathway of fat as it enters the body, breaks down through digestion, and travels for use or storage. Teaching tips offer multiple ways to...
Socratica
What Is Biochemistry?
Watch as chemistry comes alive! Socratica's biology playlist kicks off with a simple video detailing the principle components of biochemistry. Content includes carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleic acids. The narrator describes each class...
American Chemical Society
What is a Complete Breakfast?
Start your day—and your class—off right with an interesting video about breakfast! The resource, part of the American Chemical Society's Reactions series, tackles the most important meal of the day. The narrator explains what makes for a...
American Chemical Society
The Cold Truth About Fat
Our bodies store two types of fat: brown fat and white fat—and brown fats are actually efficient at burning calories! An episode of the ACS Reaction series compares exercise generating brown fat to shivering cold. It turns out 15 minutes...
MinuteEarth
Why Don't Sled Dogs Ever Get Tired?
What is the sled dog's secret to running for days on end without tiring? Turns out the answer is in their metabolism. Explore the metabolic processes of these amazing sled dogs. The science shows they are able to burn their proteins and...
Fuse School
How to Harden Vegetable Oils (Margarine) through Hydrogenation
Some margarine is soft while other margarine is hard; what causes the difference? The video explains the molecular structure of margarine and the process of hardening vegetable oils with hydrogen. It focuses on the various properties and...