NET AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
TO FOCUS ON HEALTHY LIFESTYLES
Free private viewing of the “Frontline” program “Fat.”
Free Health Screenings, Look at Causes of the Obesity Crisis and Discussion
Group at NETV
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following requests in the subject line:
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In a world inundated by tens of thousands of food ads
each year, influenced by a standard of beauty built on being thin
and fighting a primal craving, people are losing the war on fat.
On Wednesday, Sept. 1, at 6:30 p.m. (CT), join the NETV Network
and its community partners -- the Nebraska Health and Human Services
System, the One World Community Health Center in Omaha, the University
of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Cooperative Extension and the Nebraska office of the American Diabetes
Association -- in the Nebraska ETV studios in Lincoln (1800 N. 33rd
Street) for a free private viewing of the “Frontline” program “Fat.” |
As part of the “Nebraska Connects: Healthy Living -- Healthy Eating” project
examining the problem of obesity, the “Frontline” program
travels the globe in search of the causes of the obesity crisis, examining
how media and cultural ideals, as well as biology and genetics, influence
our relationships with food.
While bad diet and lack of exercise account for much of the obesity
problem, many individuals also blame the media. From food ads to Hollywood
to the fashion industry, “Fat” lays out the pervasive, contradictory
messages of high-fat, high-calorie food advertising and the glamorous
images of rail-thin models and celebrities exuding the message that to
be thin is to be beautiful. According to some experts the result is a
high incidence of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia and young
people, especially girls, jeopardizing their health with quick fix diets
and medications.
The program also looks at the pain and suffering of obese people who
every day must confront fat prejudice and explores scientific discoveries
on the role of genes in obesity, biological factors in weight gain/loss
and why there’s increasing support for the view that there is no
such thing as an “ideal weight.”
Free health screenings and information about Lincoln-area recreation
opportunities will be available for studio audience members. Following
the program, studio audience members can participate in a non-broadcast
moderated discussion with experts on health problems related to obesity.
No reservations are required.
Another special studio audience viewing and non-broadcast discussion
dealing with obesity will be held in January 2005. The Healthy Living
-- Healthy Eating project will culminate in March 2005 with a live, hour-long “Nebraska
Connects” program on Nebraska ETV focusing on the topic of family
and childhood obesity.
For additional information call Martha Florence at 402-472-9333, ext.
220. For answers to your health-related
questions call the Nebraska Health and Human Services System at 800-745-9311.
The Healthy Living -- Healthy Eating project is funded in part by The National Center for Outreach.
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