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Overweight Who's in Control?
Encourages and guides patients who have struggled to lose weight. Stresses lifestyle change and increases awareness of behavior patterns, emotional aspects of eating, and pitfalls. Offers hints on changing overeating habits and preparing food in low fat ways.
English or Spanish 16 minutes $150


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Diabetes and Weight Control Change for a Lifetime
This video introduces the relationship between excess weight, lack of activity and the development of insulin resistance characteristic of Type 2 diabetes. Portion control, variety of foods, exercise, and responsible calorie reduction are emphasized as keys to long-term weight control.
English or Spanish 13 minutes $150

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How to Read and Use Food Labels
Here's an excellent way to end food label confusion. This video guide shows how to use the new labels as a powerful tool to help everyone improve dietary choices. It walks the viewer step-by-step through each part of the food label. Full of valuable information, especially for patients with dietary restrictions.
15 minutes $150

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Meal Planning The Food Pyramid in Action
This video shows viewers how to put the food pyramid into action for everyday meal planning. Two teens chide mom for using the old "four food groups" and end up planning the family's meals for a week. They learn how to personalize the wide range of servings given in the food pyramid and how to "pyramidize" everyday foods like sandwiches, breakfast and spaghetti.
18 minutes $150

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Nutrition Eat and Be Healthy
Uses the USDA Food Guide Pyramid to explain the concept of healthy eating. Offers practical advice for making this a permanent part of any lifestyle. Presents examples of how to add more grains, vegetables, and fruits into the diet. Explains how to avoid "fat traps," and reviews low-fat cooking techniques. Depicts healthier "pyramid-style" versions of typical American meals.
English or Spanish 18 minutes $150

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Heart Failure Eating to Feel Better
This program explains that the foods patients eat affect how they feel. After pointing out that limiting sodium is one of the best things people can do to control symptoms, this video shows patients how to select food, prepare food and eat to maintain health. The video covers sodium and fluid restriction as well as eliminating alcohol and tobacco. Patients, featured in the video, are shown working with a dietitian. This video covers tips for grocery shopping as well as dining out.
14 minutes $150

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Teen Nutrition Prevention of Obesity, Now and for a Lifetime
Teenagers learn how to make healthy food choices and rely on their natural hunger and fullness cues. They also find out how to differentiate between high fat, high sugar foods, and low fat, low sugar foods and identify "high risk" situations. Covers getting started on a regular exercise program and setting realistic goals.
21 minutes $150

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Low Back Pain
Offers guidelines for good posture when standing, walking, sitting, driving, and lifting. Plus, best sleeping positions, anatomy of the back, managing back pain, and more.
12 minutes $150

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When Someone You Love Suffers from Depression
This special program can show you how to intervene and make a difference. Find out how to recognize depression and help the depressed person get treatment. Courageous families tell their personal stories and we learn that treatment for depression works.
33 minutes $150

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Diabetes and Depression
This video explains that people with diabetes have an increased risk of depression and discusses living with both diabetes and depression. Recognizing symptoms, getting help, and various approaches to managing depression are included. The program utilizes information provided by real people with diabetes as well as various questions they can ask themselves to help recognize if depression is present.
English or Spanish 18 minutes $150

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Starting an Exercise Program
Encourages sedentary viewers to benefit from exercise. Practical guidelines for beginning a program are offered. Viewers discover the benefits of exercise and learn tips for incorporating exercise into their daily routine.
English or Spanish 12 minutes $150

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Exercise and the Older Individual
Reviews benefits derived from specific forms of age-appropriate exercise. Shows the older viewer that movement and exercise are synonymous. Illustrates that many household activities (cleaning, gardening, mowing the lawn, laundry, even cooking) provide easy opportunities to exercise.
English or Spanish 19 minutes $150

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Smoking Getting Ready to Quit
This video helps smokers think about quitting as well as develop the skills they need to quit. "Real" smokers cover "'real" stop-smoking issues. The video encourages smokers to talk to a healthcare provider about appropriate methods of quitting to find a way that's right for them. It discusses nicotine patches and gum, nicotine inhalers or nasal spray, and WellbutrinŽ. Dealing with smoking withdrawal is covered in detail as well as practical tips for dealing with potential relapse situations.
English or Spanish 15 minutes $150

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How to Beat Cigarettes
Offers guidelines to make patients more aware of smoking habits and suggests ways to quit. The program dispels myths and explains withdrawal. Helpful tips for coping effectively with potential relapse situations.
English or Spanish 16 minutes $150

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Guide to Stop Smoking (booklet)
Shows smokers how to create a successful quitting plan. Suggests coping strategies, ways to build a support system, and emphasizes that quitting is possible.
16 pages $000

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Heart to Heart How to Quit Smoking
Give your cardiac patients a quick start on making the lifestyle changes they need to make with this new six-part video series. Hosted by Murray Rubin (himself a cardiac patient), "Heart to Heart" tapes feature real cardiac patients in unrehearsed interviews.
12 minutes $150

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Smoking and Human Physiology
Uses dramatic statistics and "inner-body" photography to show just how serious a problem smoking is. Covers the dangers of second hand smoke and shows how a fetus is harmed. Points out that young people are the tobacco industry's current targets.
15 minutes $150

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Teens & Tobacco
This video looks at smoking from various viewpoints: through the eyes of teenagers who have begun smoking or chewing tobacco within the past few years, through the clinical eyes of a doctor, and from the vantage point of a middle-aged smoker who developed cancer of the larynx after decades of smoking.
19 minutes $150

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Living with Stress
Patients will be able to identify with people shown throughout the tape explaining how stress has affected them and how they have learned to cope with it. Explains that though drinking, smoking, or overeating may give temporary relief from stress, the long-term effects are damaging to health. Identifies stressors and explains how to cope.
English or Spanish 14 minutes $150

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In the Presence of Nature A Journey through our National Parks and Preserves Episode 1
This relaxation video takes viewers through images of swirling clouds, serene Adirondack forests and the warm, colorful countrysides of our homeland. Accompanied by the calming music of Hilary Stagg, it travels through the beaches of Cape Cod and the fertile swamps of the Everglades. Birds fly swiftly through the air evoking a tranquil peace and thorough relaxation. Make use of the beautiful scenery and calming music to help your patients minimize stress.
29 minutes $150

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In the Presence of Nature A Journey through our National Parks and Preserves Episode 2
A journey through lazy rivers and great vistas helps promote relaxation and stress reduction. Sunshine dances along the walls of the Grand Canyon and the great parks of Yellowstone and Yosemite in this video. Wildlife roams in its native habitat untouched by the march of time as melodic music collaborates to focus on the quiet, peaceful side of life.
30 minutes $150

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Relax Stress Relief
Perfect for CCTV, Relax includes the elements proven most effective in battling stress: muscle relaxation instruction, breathing techniques, calming natural sounds, serene visuals, and soothing music.
40 minutes $150

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Choices (Advance Directives)
Help patients understand their right to choose how they live, and under what circumstances they might choose to die. The Patient-Self Determination Act, the importance of Living Wills, and Power of Attorney are explained.
14 minutes $150

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Pain Management The 3 R's
This new video will help you educate patients about pain management, which is now part of the JCAHO standards. The video reviews the benefits of pain management and describes various pain measurement scales and ways of describing pain. Whether the patient has chronic or acute pain, or pain related to injury, surgery, or cancer, you can use this video to begin discussion. Pain assessment, treatment, reassessment, and adjustment of the treatment plan are all covered in this video. It also introduces the psychological component of pain management. The video provides practical guidelines for developing a pain management plan and helps both the patient and caregiver establish realistic goals.
English or Spanish 14 minutes $150

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