Pakesso Mukash and the Konnected.tv crew brave high altitudes on an epic journey to the Peruvian Andes to meet Zenón Gomel Apaza, a Quechua farmer who has spearheaded a campaign to combat hunger in Peru’s rural communities through ancient knowledge and agrodiversity. Zenón invites us into his garden to show us how he uses traditional farming methods and sacred rituals to cultivate an array of traditional Quechua food staples amid growing concerns about global warming.
Subjects: Nutrition
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Science to Go
Science to Go tells the stories and unravels the science behind of our daily bread. The series explains what we’re eating, how it’s made, and even what effect different combinations of foods will have on our bodies. For example, who knew eating coleslaw and drinking orange juice with a smoke meat sandwich will negate some of the unhealthy properties of the meat? By showing how food is made, and what food is made of, viewers can gain a new respect for what is on the plate and will allow them to make smarter decisions about what include in their daily diet. ( 13 x 26:00)
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Food Safety and Sanitation
It is estimated that over 2 million cases of food poisoning go unreported in Canada each year. This takes you through such topics as responsibility, microbiology and prevention of food borne illnesses. Interviews with Health inspectors, Microbiologists, Chefs and other food industry experts give you an overview of Food Safety and Sanitation…in understandable language. Ideal for professional food preparers, part time employees or the home cook, these programs will change how you handle and prepare food.
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Depression & Eating Disorder: Sterling’s Story
At the age of 13, Sterling was a cheerleader and cross country runner. After her uncle commented that she was getting a roll around her belly, Lindsay became obsessed with her weight. She stopped eating and, when she did eat, purging was the only option. She was losing weight beyond what was normal while still competing and running until the point where she mutilated herself and ending up in an institution. Lindsay was 5’7″ and weighed 95 pounds. Her body started to shut down. She stopped menstruating and the doctors warned her that she may never be able to have children. Her miraculous recovery is truly an inspiring story to all youth. The moral of this story: “One small unkind word can have devastating effects on another person’s life.”
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Food Poisoning: Prevention is Better Than Cure
So what is food poisoning? Another name is foodborne illness. This illness generally results from consuming food or drink contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, viruses or toxins. It often produces symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhoea, or fever. The symptoms are often the same as for gastro-type illnesses caused by other sources (other people carrying the bacteria, unhygienic surfaces, etc). This usually makes it hard to tell illness caused by food from the other sources of illness. Foodborne illness can occur from any fresh or processed foods consumed in a range of settings such as homes, restaurants, large catering establishments, schools and institutions. Most cases of foodborne illness can be avoided through good hygiene and good food handling practices.This program will look at – what is food poisoning? how is it caused? And methods to prevent it.
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Understanding And Managing Type 2 Diabetes
The incidence of diabetes around the world is rapidly rising. Predominant causative factors include age, lifestyle and obesity with up to 90% of the diabetic population having type 2 diabetes. As a direct result of this rise, the need for nurses with diabetic expertise has also risen. This program has been developed as a response to growing demand for diabetic nursing knowledge, signs and symptoms awareness, and management of type 2 diabetes. It will provide an invaluable learning resource for both nursing students and clinical nurses delivering hands-on nursing care.
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Food For Sports Performance
Food and nutrients are one of our basic needs. Food helps to give us energy, repair and replace cells and allow growth to occur. Food is also one of the most important factors in making us go “fast” and allowing for peak physical performance in sporting activities. When people exercise they burn energy, can damage muscles and become dehydrated. This program will help students to understand the role that both foods and nutrients play in allowing themselves and elite athletes to enhance physical performance and succeed in all sporting arenas, whether it is the local football competition or in the AFL.
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Wine
Its invention was probably an accident. Someone left a bunch of grapes in the bottom of a pouch, tasted it a few weeks later and bam, they were hit with a buzz. Since then, winemaking has become a sophisticated scientific process, from the grafting of two different types of vines to make growing possible anywhere in the world, to the technology used to create a red or a white. Every step is precisely thought out. Pheromone strips are used to control bug populations. And it may come as a surprise that this intoxicating mix of grapes and yeast is actually good for you!
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Corn
Corn is king. It’s in the food you eat, it’s in the pen you write with, it’s in the car you drive. Indeed, it’s one of the most versatile substances on the planet. It’s also a very different product than the one that once grew wild across North America. We’ll see how corn’s evolution has been shaped, and how a tiny kernel becomes a piece of popcorn.
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Cereal
The birth of breakfast cereal was the birth of the health food movement. Before that, breakfast was usually a fatty and vein-clogging combination of bacon, fried eggs, flapjacks and a mound of butter. The advent of corn flakes, oatmeal and other quick-to-prepare breakfast foods changed the way we start our day and the effect that our morning meal has on us.