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Health and Its Significance
It explains health and its significance and describes conditions for good personal and community health.
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Kids Health: Body Mass Index
Determine your body mass index using this online calculator. This handy tool will even plot your BMI data on a graph.
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Pbs Kids: "Go Potty, Go" Song
Daniel and his friends sing about going potty in the morning before they go to school, when they're getting ready to go on a trip, and before they get into bed. This song aims to teach children to go potty even when they're not sure they...
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Pbs Learning Media: Help Prevent Diabetes With Exercise
In this animated video segment adapted from the Eagle Books series produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mr. Eagle describes to Rain That Dances and Thunder Cloud, two American Indian boys, how people used to be...
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Pbs Learning Media: Healthy Habits: Everyday Learning
This video demonstrates two of the most important habits we can teach children: covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze and washing your hands. In this video, a young girl demonstrates the correct procedure for performing these two...
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Pbs Learning Media: Learn to Sneeze and Cough With Grover
When you feel a tickle in your nose or throat, remember that there's a right way to sneeze and cough! Sneezing and coughing into the bend of your arm or elbow helps keep hands germ-free. Grover demonstrates in this Sesame Street video....
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Pbs Learning Media: Health Feels Great
Learn why nutrition and movement are important for maintaining a healthy body. [1:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: Goodbye Pacifier
Growing up means learning to say goodbye to things like pacifiers. This video teaches the benefits of giving up pacifier use and offers a strategy to help children transition. [1:00]
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Pbs Learning Media: Stand Up to Bullying
This video depicts a mock bullying scene with children playing a game and excluding one child. During the mock segment, Mackenzie, the host, identifies what bullying is, the different forms of bullying, and what to do if you or a friend...
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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: 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: Portion Distortion
This video gives viewers an inside look at what registered dietitian, Pat Mizerak, calls "portion distortion." [1:16]
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Pbs Learning Media: Label Reading Part 2
In this video, Move It! cast members learn the importance of reading nutrition labels and what parts are most significant. [1:31]
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Pbs Learning Media: Label Reading Part 1
This video helps people of all ages read nutrition labels correctly. Pat Mizerak registered dietician at United Health Services, points out important things on a label such as serving size and calories. [1:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Do the Mohawk Walk
In this video, children learn about teamwork and trust as they work together to complete physically and mentally tough challenges while on a ropes course. [3:02]
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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: Clip 6 B: Diabetes an Epidemic
Understand how processed foods that are cheap, convenient and everywhere are making people sick with diseases like diabetes especially in certain communities. Hear a young poet express her concerns about the foods that are making her...
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 6 A: Sugar Flood
Learn how prevalent sugar is in most things we consume and how eating and drinking too much of it can contribute to type 2 diabetes. [3:45]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 5: Serve More, Eat More
Discover that when food and drinks are served to us in large containers we tend to eat more even when we're not hungry. Food companies use this strategy to sell more products. [3:46]
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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: Clip 3: Phud Phads
Learn how the discovery of vitamins, while a major scientific achievement, also became a way for the food marketers to convince the public about the next "magic bullet" for optimal health, a trend that continues today. [5:06]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 2: Salt, Sugar, Fat
Learn about how the Western Diet, made up of lots of meat and highly processed foods full of salt, sugar and fat, leads to big profits for food companies and poor health for people. [3:35]
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Pbs Learning Media: Clip 1: Meet Anthony Scavotto
Learn how a real middle school student, Anthony Scavotto, and his family struggle to figure out what to eat to be healthy so he can play sports without getting tired, like other kids his age. [2:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: School Day Fitness
This Kindergarten through 2nd grade Kids in Motion activity is an exciting and relatable fitness activity about something all children understand- the school day! In this activity, students will focus on bending, exercising and...