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Micronutrients are major players in the nutrition game, so what do they do? Without the micronutrients, you wouldn't be able to access the energy the macronutrients provide. This program will help you understand their role and how they work! Topics include: Introduction to Vitamins, Vitamin Considerations, Minerals, and Water.
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When it comes to healthy eating, the nutrition labelcan be a great guide. A Nielsen study found, however, that 59 percent of shoppers have a hard time understanding what those labels really mean. Now, grocery stores are trying to make it easier by posting a “nutritional value," or NuVal, score. Some grocery stores are posting that score right next to the price.
8) The Diet Hop
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The Atkins diet, South Beach diet and Weight Watchers may seem like quick ways to shed some unwanted pounds. Next, we’ll show you some dangers you need to know when it comes to dieting.
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Welcome to a restaurant like no other. Where behind the scenes is not just the kitchen, but a secret gym and an army of exercisers - aiming to burn off every single calorie the diners eat. With a three-course meal plus drinks easily coming in at 2,500 calories, it's going to get sweaty. How will the diners feel when all is revealed? And how will they feel when they have to take a turn on the treadmills?
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More and more primary care doctors are using the kitchen as the place to prescribe a powerful medicine: healthy food. With poor diets linked to many deaths from preventable diseases, research has found that changing diet and becoming more active can be more effective than medication in preventing disease. Special correspondent Allison Aubrey of NPR News reports.
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Managing diabetes begins with an understanding of the lifestyle changes necessary to maintain good health-and proper nutrition is the foundation of that understanding. This program introduces key facts and actions that form the dietary front in the battle against diabetes. Viewers learn about meal choices designed to control blood glucose, maintain normal blood fat levels, and prevent or mitigate health care complications. Although frequent consumption...
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Proper nutrition plays a major role when we strive to reach our physical potential, and nutrition makes an important contribution to our well-being and ability to perform. Basal metabolism and physical activity determine the amount of food we should eat. This video shows how to eat right while in training, before competitions, and during the event. It reveals which of us should use carbohydrate loading and explains the safe way to gain or lose weight....
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In response to the widely seen documentary Super Size Me, this video follows two college students as they eat only fast food for a month-losing weight and lowering their cholesterol levels in the process. The trick? Aaron and Ellen stay within portion sizes appropriate for their body types. The experiment was organized and documented by Dr. James Painter of Eastern Illinois University's School of Family and Consumer Sciences and monitored by a physician...
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"This reference provides nutrition guidelines for a wide range of physically active clients - including vegetarians, pregnant and menopausal women, children and adolescents, older adults, people with diabetes, and participants in weight-restricted sports. Fitness Nutrition for Special Dietary Needs is ideal for athletic trainers and personal trainers who guide clients in proper eating for optimal exercise performance. The text may also be used as...
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