Enter into the plastic-wrapped world of the food industry – past, present and future. Students will gain an understanding of what it means for a food to be organic and watch as the Standard Deviants cast discusses fresh, local foods and their alternatives.
Subjects: Food Technology
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Teaching Systems: Nutrition (2011) Superpack
All 8 DVDs in one package. The Standard Deviants Teaching Systems are simply the most effective method for students to learn and for teachers to teach. This educational programming is optimized for classroom use. Each module is a topic-based video that containsFull Public Performance Rights. The digital workbook includes teacher’s guides, classroom notes, quizzes, games, and graphic organizers. The subject matter correlates directly to state standards and is produced and designed by the Cerebellum Academic Team of professional scriptwriters, students, professors, actors, comedians, and teachers.
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1: Intro: Cells and Macronutrients
Everyone needs to eat and this program explains why. This program provides the breakdown of the six main types of nutrients that your body needs to fuel you everyday. Topics include: What is Nutrition, Macronutrients: Carbohydrates, Fats and Proteins.
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2: What Your Body Does With Food
The topics of digestion is always discussed after that Thanksgiving meal, 4th of July BBQ, or birthday cake with belly rubs and sighs, but this program explains what the actual process is and why it happens!
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3: The Food Spectrum
We know that nutrients come from foods. But hold on there smarty pants, what foods? How do you maintain a well-balanced diet? How do you know you’re getting everything you need? This program unlocks a whole new door in understanding what foods do for you and your body.
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Dietary Supplements: Health or Hype?
Take a walk down the aisle of any supermarket or chemist these days and you are bound to be confronted by shelves full of nutrient supplements, ranging from vitamin A to zinc. But are they worth the price you pay for them? This information-packed program takes a balanced look at the essential nutrients needed by the body, the type of person who is most likely to take dietary supplements, and what differences, both good and bad, they can make to our everyday life. This program is a fresh look at a modern multi-billion dollar industry, including the rules of product labeling, and the cunning marketing that leverages off well-known sporting celebrities.
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No Accounting for Taste: Why We Eat What We Eat
This program investigates the factors that play significant roles in determining the foods we love and those we just can’t stomach! With help from nutritionist Ros Ryan, and the experiences and opinions of everyday people from around the world, we reveal the physiological, psychological, social, and economic factors that affect our choice of foods. From satiety – our bodies telling us whether we are hungry or full – to positive and negative associations we have with certain foods, and the impact of culture, religion, lifestyle, peers, and the media, this is a rewarding examination of why we prefer certain types of foods over others.
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Menu Planning: Toddlers, Pregnancy, the Elderly
This informative program explains the nutrients our bodies require for optimum health and how these requirements change throughout our lives. It reviews the stages of our life cycle, the basic nutritional needs at each stage, and encourages thoughtful and well informed meal planning for three important life stages: toddlers, pregnancy and the elderly. The content is presented in a clear manner with lots of real-life examples and practical tips from experts in the field. With this information, viewers will understand the nutritional needs and dietary requirements needed, and the effects that deficiencies can have on our health.
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The Cooking Process: How Food Changes
Food is a vital component of life for every human being. People from every country of the globe use different combinations of herbs, spices and cookery methods to produce delicious food. This program looks at the changing characteristics of food during the cookery process. We also investigate how the addition or substitution of an ingredient or an alternative cookery method can make a dish unique and exciting, and typical of a certain country or region. As a cook, we need to be aware of how and why food changes and it is only then that we can become true Masterchefs in our own kitchens.
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India’s Population Boom Tests Green Revolution’s Legacy
Fred De Sam Lazaro reports from India about new questions about the environmental impact of the nation’s first major initiative to grow more food to meet the needs of a booming population.