Nutrition/Malnutrition

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Designing Healthy Communities is the latest multimedia project from Media Policy Center.  This multi-hour series for PBS focuses on how by improving the design of our built environment we can address many of the nation’s devastating childhood and adult health concerns.

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The Hunger Chronicles is a documentary series for radio and web that explores the causes of the global hunger crisis and the most promising efforts to combat it. Partners are Homelands Productions, a nonprofit media cooperative specializing in public radio documentaries; Magnum Photos, widely considered the world’s most prestigious photo agency; NPR; Cornell University, and the USC Annenberg School. 

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The story of the bagel is the classic story of the immigrant made good in America – struggling, then prospering, and finally assimilating. This one hour documentary tells the fascinating tale of the bagel’s transcendence from urban Jewish street food to America’s favorite mass-market breakfast, and relates how the bagel itself has changed -and changed people’s lives - in the process.

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For nearly 20 years, the doctors, hospitals and clinics in Grand Junction, Colorado have been providing low cost health care with excellent results to nearly everyone in Mesa County, according to data in the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. Correspondent T.R. Reid will analyze the data, and explore the crucial question raised by the current debate over health care reform: how to control health care costs while improving the quality of care and increasing access.

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A documentary interviewing "news celebrities" and local radio news journalists, on the importance of local radio news coverage, the techniques involved for those just getting started, and the economic and social rationale for doing so. 

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The Vanishing of the Bees, a feature-length documentary, takes a piercing look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a keystone species vital to sustaining our ecosystem.

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"Germ Wars,” a 60-minute documentary, examines the epidemic in food borne diseases, and consumers fighting for the most fundamental of liberties-the right to choose our food.

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In the Nest is a feature length documentary about Kenyan children with imprisoned mothers and the German woman who takes them under her wing.

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Karla's Arrival is a human-rights documentary about a teenage mother raising her newborn on the same streets she herself grew up in. The film follows Sujeylin, a young mother living in a park in Managua Nicaragua, and her baby, Karla, through the first year of the child’s life; their complicated personal journey reveals a universal story and a dire human rights issue which has yet to be told.