Posts Tagged ‘youth’

Marketing Junk Food to Kids – Marion Nestle

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/08/14/Marion_Nestle_What_to_Eat

NYU nutritionist Dr. Marion Nestle examines the controversial food industry practice of creating advertising directed at children.

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Marion Nestle, NYU Professor of Nutrition and author of Food Politics, Safe Food, and What to Eat, gives a talk entitled What to Eat: Personal Responsibility or Social Responsibility.

Nestle discusses the U.S. food system including supermarket strategies. She informs and advises the audience at the Chautauqua Institution’s 2008 program about what and how to eat.

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

Duration : 0:6:45

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Nutrition Facts Label Pt III – Intro to Sugars & Sweeteners

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

I talk about different forms of sugars that are used in products and other packaging design/features a product uses in order to catch attention. This is an introduction to sugars and sweeteners that may be contained in a product. It’s presented in a “Vlog-ish” format.

Summary: There are many forms of sugars and added sweeteners. Some include Sugar alcohols such as Mannitol, Sorbital, Xylitol just to name a few. There are many different kinds of sweeteners used in products, such as high fructose corn syrup. If a package claims that it contains no sugar, it may be true, but you still have to look if they add alternative forms of sugars, and those are sugar alcohols. Added sweeteners are also used in substitution for sugars. So have an open mind when reading packaging labels and try to make sure you know what “alternative” forms of sugars can still do, whether it’s good or not. This summarizes the first half of the video.

2nd half of the video pertains to looking at other various info provided by the product’s packaging. Such as flavor, design, and others.

Enjoy the video!

Music (in order of appearance):
Jeopardy Think song
Bach – Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude

Duration : 0:3:2

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Nutrition Facts Label Pt II – Serving Size

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

This is part 2 of nutrition facts label video. Another take on nutrition facts label. Talks about serving size and sugar contained in product with various facts.

Music in background (in order of appearance, not counting our own YHA theme song in beginning and end):
Mozart – Turkish March
Mozart – 5th Symphony

Duration : 0:5:31

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