TED-Ed
How to Spot a Fad Diet
Learn how to separate the fat from the meat—the facts from the misinformation about diets—with a short video that offers guidelines for assessing diet regimens that offer long-term health benefits as opposed to short-term changes.
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Real-Life Math | Health Educator
Get healthy using math (although exercise helps, too!). Future consumers analyze a set of nutritional labels to compare caloric and nutrition information for two cereal brands. After watching a video of a health educator explaining how...
Curated OER
Digestive Enzymes, Nutrition and Your Health
As Natalie describes in this video, nutrition is about more than just having a healthy diet. Your body's absorption, digestion, and elimination is key in your overall health. The function of enzymes is clearly explained along with the...
Fuse School
Salt and Diet
Salt is necessary for your diet, but too much or too little and it causes health problems. These problems, as well as what salt does in your body, are the focus of a video that also looks at where salt is found in food and how much salt...
SciShow
The Deal with Fat
Fats are essential to a balanced diet and help bodies use certain vitamins as well as maintain healthy skin and hair. While watching the video, learners explore fat, which is certainly talked about a lot in terms of health. The narrator...
American Chemical Society
Do Vitamin Supplements Really Work?
Is that multivitamin really keeping you healthy and balanced? Junior nutritionists weigh the pros and cons using a video from the American Chemical Society's Reactions playlist. Topics covered include types of vitamins and minerals, what...
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Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Heart Disease: America's Leading Cause of Death
This video adapted from 'The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease in America' examines the environmental factors that decades ago made heart disease the leading killer in America. While its root causes were unknown at that time, today...
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 4: Marketing Low Fat
Learn why the campaign to reduce fat in our diet is the best example yet of how the science of nutrition can get highjacked by the ideology of nutritionism. [1:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Fast Food Fools
Registered dietician, Molly Morgan of Creative Nutrition Solutions, works with Move It! cast members in this video to give a brief overview of how to make healthier choices while dining out. [3:10]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 9: Secrets of the French
Learn that culture can be a very powerful way to teach us how to eat, and how the French have traditions and customs that help them eat well. [4:39]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Nutrition and Health: Lesson 1
This lesson will look at the effect that diet and exercise have on normal body functions. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Nutrition and Health."
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Pbs Learning Media: Food Choices
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos promote the importance of understanding nutritional information and eating a well-balanced diet, focusing on food choices. Students learn about different types of foods from around the world, how to read...
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Pbs Learning Media: Mixed Nuts
In this Fizzy's Lunch Lab video, Fizzy introduces the Nuts! -- Almond, Pistachio, and Hazelnut -- to talk to students about why nuts are a healthy food choice that should be included in their diets, and to explain that each specific nut...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sugary Drink Smarts
In this video, Mackenzie teams up with Molly Morgan, a registered dietician, Tim, and Derek, Binghamton Senators hockey players, to show viewers the amount of added sugar in some of the most popular beverages. [7:37]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 7: Going Farming!
Learn how in certain neighborhoods it's very difficult to find fresh, healthy, affordable food. See how some schools are responding by giving students opportunities to get excited about growing, preparing, and eating plant-based food....
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Pbs Learning Media: Zucchini Croquette
Awab and Ritaj show us how to make Zucchini Croquette in this video. Using a variety of healthy ingredients, such as, zucchini, whole wheat flour, egg and shallots, the pair explains why this is a healthy and delicious recipe. [3:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: Apple Canoes for Two
This Fuel It! video depicts Katherine and Megan as they make their healthy snack called Apple Canoes for Two. Using apples to represent canoes, the girls use various other healthy ingredients to create their playful yet nutritious snack....
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Pbs Learning Media: Chunky Monkey Bars
Follow along in this Fuel It! video, with Alexis as she makes Chunky Monkey bars using a variety of healthy ingredients such as oats, flaxseed, macadamia nuts and banana chips. [5:56]
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Pbs Learning Media: Crickets on Sand
Learn how to make your own hummus in a unique and healthy snack in this Fuel It! video with Brittany, Bryce and Pamela. After making their own hummus from chickpeas and spices, they spread it on a cake and top it with edamame to create...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fruit Fold Ups
In this Fuel It! video, Ella and Sela team up to create a delicious and healthy variation of the fruit roll up. The pair spread peanut butter on a tortilla and then top it with apples and sharp cheese to create their Fruit Fold-Up. [3:39]
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Pbs Learning Media: Fruit Muffins
Brady and Noel work together to create gluten free optional Fruit Muffins in this Fuel It! video. The two use healthy ingredients such as brown rice flour and a variety of fruits to create an alternative to the sugary muffin often found...
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Pbs Learning Media: Fruit Trail Mix
In this Fuel It! video, Becky demonstrates how to create a healthy version of the much-loved snack, trail mix. Using a variety of dry ingredients, such as raisins, peanuts and banana chips, she creates her own Fruit Trail Mix. [3:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: Go Green Snack Variety Dips
In this video, Veronica, Julie and Olga demonstrate how to create three healthy yet delightful dips. [1:53]
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Pbs Learning Media: Good Morning Muffins
Learn how to create a healthy alternative to the traditional breakfast muffin in this Fuel It! video with Mara. Using fruits, vegetables and other healthy ingredients, she creates what is called the Good Morning Muffin. [2:10]