Nutrition Videos

Our media partners provide tips in videos

Highmark Healthy High 5 has media partners who have aired Highmark Healthy High 5 reports and other videos that highlight nutrition topics. We encourage you to watch these video reports for tips on how to combat childhood obesity and provide children proper nutrution. Click on the television station logos below to visit their website to watch the videos.

WHTM videos (click logo to access video links)

News Stories

• Eating Healthy Over the Holidays — #1
• Smart Picks in the grocery store — #15

Vignette Archive

• Good Nutrition and Healthy Habits for your Family — #2
• Foods on the Go — Healthy Snacks to Take on the Go — #3
• Portion Control — Easy ways to recognize portion size — #4
• Scavenger Hunt at your local grocery store — #5
• Tips for Childhood Nutrition and Physical Activity — Ways to start healthy habits early in a child’s life — #13

TV Archive

• 7/26/10 —  Assembling the Ideal Meal — Ways to make quick and healthy meals
• 8/24/09 — Healthy Dairy — How to make eating dairy foods fun for your kids
• 8/10/99 — Eating Healthy on a Budget
• 7/27/09 — Healthy Store Tour — Where the healthy foods are located in the supermarket
• 12/17/07 — Childhood Diabetes — The health risks to kids who are overweight
• 11/26/07 — Fighting Childhood Obesity, Part 2: The high incidence of childhood obesity
• 11/5/07 — What Schools are Doing to Combat Childhood Obesity, Part 1: How one school has improved their school lunches
• 10/15/07 – Fighting Childhood Obesity

WTAE videos (click logo to access video links)

• Eating Healthy Tip #1 — How to determine portion sizes
• Eating Healthy Tip #2 — Healthy Snacks on the go
• BMI — What does BMI (Body Mass Index) mean and what to do with the letter you get from your school?

WICU videos (click logo to access video links)

• Apple, Pear, or Carrots? — Give your child healthy food choices for his or her lunchbox
• Avoid the Food Wars — Make it a family lifestyle to have healthy foods handy
• Why Chips? — How often should kids have unhealthy foods?
• Quick Easy Choices — Start slow in making diet changes

Did You Know?

• Studies illustrate that the health habits children develop at a young age will continue with them through adulthood. In fact, preventable illnesses make up approximately 70 percent of illness and associated costs in the U.S. according to the New England Journal of Medicine.