Nutritional disorders are diseases that are related to a person's state of nutritional health. They are a growing and deadly problem in the United States and around the world. But get this: they are preventable. This program covers the ins and outs of disorders and how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Topics include: What Are Nutritional Disorders?, Exploring Nutritional Disorders, Exercise, Weight Management, and Weight Loss.

By the year 2050, cops and robbers won’t look anything like it did in the past. Host Joe Penna talks to designers who’ve created a robotic security guard. He’ll work with a Harvard scientist who has developed a softball sized set of eyes and ears that allow crime fighters to see danger long before it can hurt them. And polygraphs could become a thing of the past if we can scan brain waves to see if people are telling the truth, or not.

Help to transform the planet in crisis with this indispensable guide to healthy, ethical, and economically sustainable food from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD -- "Read this book if you're ready to change the world" (Tim Ryan, US Representative). Food is our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies. What we eat has tremendous implications...

Modern food production is largely dependent on fossil fuels. Now that we are beginning to reach the end of them, the main question remains: How will we feed a global population of 9 billion people in 2050? In the Netherlands, Belgium and Silicon Valley, numerous startups have sprung up that use smart technology, big data and new distribution systems to find solutions. This program explores tomorrow's food, which not only needs to be sustainable, tasty...

Amazing but true: On the way from the farm to the dining-room table, more than half the food lands on the dump. Most of it before it ever reaches consumers. Why are ever-greater quantities being destroyed? This documentary seeks explanations from supermarket sales staff and managers, bakers, wholesale market inspectors, industrial agriculture workers, farmers and EU bureaucrats.

Looks at farming and the ways that children from different cultures help in the production and distribution of food around the world, with attention paid to environmental and food supply issues.

The U.S. government has given its stamp of approval to irradiation as a way of killing food-borne bacteria, germs, and parasites. If irradiated food is considered safe enough to give to immune-compromised patients in hospitals and astronauts in space, why is the practice of food irradiation so controversial? This program offers a balanced look at this important method of food purification as it explains how X-rays, electron beams, and gamma radiation...

Segments include: (1) Compost: How to Use It and How to Make Your Own; (2) Tomatoes: How to Grow the Best Tomatoes You've Ever Eaten; (3) Ant Problems: The Ultimate Rx; (4) Skunk Problems: A Safe, Pesticide-Free Solution; (5) Roses: How to Grow World-Class Roses; (6) Lawns: How Much Water is Enough?; (7) House Plants: Growing Beautiful Houseplants; (8) Weeds: The Last Word for Dealing with Unwanted Weeds; (9) Bug Sprays: A Homemade Recipe; and (10)...

After hearing about efforts in Venezuela to develop a more equitable as well as sustainable food and agriculture system, filmmaker Simon Cunich heads to Venezuela to investigate what we might learn about food sovereignty from the country's various initiatives to reduce the price of food by opening up urban land to community farming. So they may become urban gardeners, the nation is providing citizens with free seeds, tools, and other materials needed...