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Carbs
Just what is a carbohydrate? We wear carbohydrates, write on carbohydrates, and even live in “a  house of carbs?” Learn about blood sugar, insulin, diabetes, and the role of glucose, fructose, sucrose and lactose and much more.

What Is A Calorie
A calorie is a measurement of energy—of fuel power.  Find out how much energy is in a calorie; how we count calories; what calories have to do with gaining weight, and more.

Fast Food Survival Guide
An educational program that doesn’t completely trash fast food? This video begins by showing that fast food offers some value to modern society.  A balanced approach will hold the attention of fast-food eaters much better than the usual warning to “don’t eat this evil stuff because it will make you fat!”

Beauty & The Feast:  Eating With Your Eyes   
Why is there so much beauty in food? The program explores a fascinating variety of ways that our eyes help us determine that subtle reaction to color and taste.  Food has never looked so good.

What Should We Eat?  The Vegetarian Debate  
This video 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?  It’s easy to find extreme views on this subject, but what are the real issues?  Will the future find a world in which we no longer need to “use” animals to survive, or will meat eaters rule the planet? This video suggests people need a reason TO eat meat just as vegetarians need a reason to avoid it.

Eater Beware!  From Chemical Stews To Organic Gardens  
Food and risk.  We are increasingly concerned about the safety of our food supply.  Thousands seek organic foods they see are “safer” and free of potentially dangerous chemicals. This timely and important video gives a foundation to help guide food choices and understand the revitalized interest in organic foods.  Yes, it’s about nutrition, but it’s also about science and how to assess the risks of daily life..

Global Eating: Learning From Other Cultures
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.

Food Processing: A Video Field Trip
What happens to food between the farm and the fork?  Take this video field trip inside food processing plants to learn how food makers put real strawberries in cereal boxes, create potato chips with just the right crunch, make a beef roast ready to heat, mill wheat into flour, make cheese, and can food. Viewers learn the scientific foundations for freeze-drying, flash freezing, vacuum cooking, canning, and see how enzymes work.

Bugs for Breakfast: Food and Culture
A multi-cultural look at how we eat! Don’t worry, we don’t show people eating bugs. But you will  • Learn why people eat  • Explore strange eating patterns  • Whey we eat cows and corn and not swans and dandelions   • Why more people in our culture eat meat   • Food taboos  • Will future generations view eating meat as a health risk?  • Will “laboratory safe” food pills be in our future  • Do humans around the world eat like you?  • Most people in the world don’t use forks and spoons  • Why guys don’t go out for soup & salad

From Farm to Table
Food! We talk about it all the time. What shall we eat? Where can be buy it? What’s healthiest, lowest in fat or barbs, cheapest, or just plain tastiest? But the aspect of food we usually discuss least may just be the most interesting and informative. Where does all this food come from?

Nutrition Basics: Why Food Matters
Each of us eats about 50 tons of food in a lifetime. From this mountain of edibles we obtain 4 basics of life-water, energy, protein and a handful of vitamins and minerals. Nutrition basics if about why we need to eat and why we have to choose carefully.

Food Additives
In the past few days, you’ve probably eaten several hundred chemicals during your snacks and meals.  Some you probably know about, but there may be a lot you’ve never heard of and even some whose names you can't pronounce!  Are all these chemicals safe?  Which are healthy, and which aren’t?  And is it true that they can be found in even the simplest foods? Convenience foods are so commonplace in our diets, we rarely think of them as being convenient.  Take a loaf of bread for example; it would spoil within just a few days if it didn’t contain preservatives.  Our peanut butter jar would be full of an oily mess if it didn't contain an additive. Farm raised salmon would look white and unsavory without a color additive. From the history behind preserving foods to new concepts in enriching foods, this program presents examples of the many additives that are used to flavor, color, and preserve so much of what we eat

Breakfast Eggstravaganza
Host, creator, and professional chef Erik “Egg” Berlin mixes cooking basics with a unique visual style and original hip-hop music to cook up a program young viewers will enjoy. Kids learn how to prepare: Chili and Eggs with Tortilla Crisps; Huevos Rancheros; French Toast, Fruit and Yogurt Parfait. Includes worksheets on “Understanding The Recipe” and “Safety and Sanitation”.

 
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