Title: A Walk in Your Shoes: Sizing Up the Situation
Media: Video Tape
Audience: Middle School and High School Students, Educators
Pub. Date: 2003
Description: This is an excellent video that covers what it is like to be overweight and descrimination. This is a great video for high school and middle school aged kids to show the effects of size descrimination. It is narrated by two girls, one obese and one a thin cheerleader. The cheerleader actually dresses up in a "fat suit" for one day and you follow her through the reactions she gets from other boys and girls.
Length: 24 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Culture and Nutrition, Middle School, Secondary School, Video Tape
Source: Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service

1 Copy

Title: Ask Sofia About Food Safety
Media: Videotape
Target Audience: Secondary School/Adult
Pub. Date:1996
A humorous program that provides important safety tips for purchasing, storing, preparing and serving food. Ask Sofia About Food Safety covers how to reheat leftovers, avoid cross contamination, choose meats, effectively store food, and proper ways of cooking to minimize food borne illness.
Time/Length: 12 minutes
Number of Copies: 3
Classifications: Food Safety and Sanitation, Secondary, Adult, Video Tape
Source: KNB Productions

3 Copies

Title: Basics: Fruits and Vegetables
Media: Video
Target Audience: Educators, Grades 7-12, Adult
Pub. Date: 2001
Description: Chef Paulette Mitchell demonstrates preparing fruits and vegetables, including selection, as well as cooking methods. Recipes and teaching materials included.
Time/length: 16 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Adult, Cookbook, Food Preparation and Presentation, Middle School, Secondary, Training Resource, Video and Worksheets
Source: Learning ZoneXpress

1 Copy

Title: Behind Closed Doors
Media: Video Tape
Audience: High School and Middle School Students
Pub. Date: 2003
Description: This video is narrated by Joan Lunden and goes behind the scene of the modeling industry to investigate the real way models look and what the media does to make them look perfect in photo shoots. This is an excellent resource for teaching Media Literacy and great for showing to high school and middle school girls who are comparing themselves to models in the magazines.
Length: 15 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Culture and Nutrition, Middle School, Secondary School, Video Tape
Source: LMNO Productions

1 Copy

Title: Body Talk 1
Media: Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials
Audience: Ages 12 and up, Educators
Pub. Date: 1999
Description: This award-winning video on body esteem looks at youth from diverse backgrounds to discuss the messages they receive from media, family and friends about their bodies. Real teens talk about the real issues. Perfection, plastic surgery, peer pressure, media pressure, excessive exercise, and irregular eating patterns are all touched on. Both female and male perspectives are offered. The video focuses on their healing as well at their struggles. Facillitator's guide is included.
Length: 28 minutes
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Culture and Nutrition, Other, Middle School, Secondary Scoool, Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials
Source: The Body Positive

1 Copy

The DVD highlights the importance of incorporating a variety of foods from MyPyramid and healthy breakfast ideas at fast food restaurants. It examines how breakfast choices affect your body, including muscles, bones, blood, brain, and your performance. It gives practical breakfast basics, including choosing a healthy breakfast cereal, vegetarian breakfast ideas, grab and go breakfasts.

1 Copy

Title: Breaking Size Prejudice
Media: Video Tape with Leader's Materials/Manual and Business Card CD
Audience: 11-17 yo, Middle School and High School, Educators
Pub. Date: 2000
Description: This video and educators guide (both in paper format as well as pdf on included business card CD) is designed to teach kids 11-17 to respect body size diversity and to enjoy the benefits of active living, pleasurable and healthful eating and a positive self-image. Interviews with people of different body shapes as well as various skits that apply to a middle school/high school audience are presented.
Length: 23 minutes
Number of Copies: 3
Classifications: Other, Middle School, Secondary, Video Tape with Leader's Manual/Materials
Source: University of Wyoming Extension: Family and Consumer Sciences

3 Copies

Title: Eat to Win: Nutrition for Athletes
Media: Video
Target Audience: Educators, Adults, Grades 6-12
Pub. Date: 2006
Description: When athletes step onto the field, court, or track, or dive into the pool, they want to perform their best. Putting good nutrition at the top of their training program will help them gain the competitive edge. This video dispels 10 common nutrition myths by explaining what to eat, when, and why using the USDA's MyPyramid as the guide.
Time/length: 20 minutes
Number of copies: 1
Classifications: Adults, Menu Planning and Production, Middle School, Nutrition Education, Secondary, Training Resource, Video
Source: Learning ZoneXpress

1 Copy

Title: Encyclopedia of Diet Fads
Media: Book
Target Audience: Educators, Adults, Grades 10-12
Pub. Date: 2003
Description: The Encyclopedia of Diet Fads describes many of the health fads and fashions of the past, as well as current trends in weight loss, examining the pros and cons of different plans. The authors help to identify effective means of losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Particular emphasis is placed on weight-loss programs aimed at young people, who are experiencing the highest rates of obesity in history.
Time/length: 242 pages
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Adult, Culture and Nutrition, Nutrition Education, Secondary, Special Diets
Source: Greenwood Press, Book

1 Copy

Title: Exploring History through Simple Recipes: American Indian Cooking Before 1500
Media: Book
Target Audience: 10-18 years old (juvenile literature)
Pub. Date: 2001
Description: This book discusses the everyday life, cooking methods, common foods, and celebrations and hardships of American Indians before 1500. Traditional recipes, kitchen safety, cooking equipment, a glossary, and a metric conversion guide are included.
Time/length: 32 pages
Number of Copies: 1
Classifications: Nutrition Ed., Book, Middle School, High School, Food Preparation and Presentation, Culture and Nutrition
Source: Blue Earth books

1 Copy