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Battling eating disorders
Explains how to recognize eating disorders, how friends and loved ones should communicate their fears and concerns, and how those who suffer from these often fatal illnesses can find professional help. Special emphasis is placed on identifying anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating as actual diseases, not as misguided lifestyle choices -- a realization necessary for effective treatment.
Critical condition America's obesity crisis
Discusses and explores the correlation between being poor and obesity.
Dying to be thin
Abnormally thin -- Cultural pressures -- The search for answers -- Treatment -- The ballet world -- Running on empty -- Bulimia nervosa -- Road to recovery.
Documentary on anorexia nervosa and bulimia, eating disorders that have grown increasingly prevalent in contemporary American society. Experts in the field discuss some of their underlying causes (especially cultural pressures to be thin), their physiological and psychological effects, and some medical and therapeutic treatments that have been developed. The interviewees include patients representing particularly vulnerable groups: young women from troubled families, dancers, fashion models, and athletes.
Vitamin Basics
This program answers the basic questions about vitamins without hype or bias. What are vitamins? How do they work? should you take supplements?