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6 videodisc (DVD)s (ca 30 min. ea.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
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Body beautiful -- Detox devils -- Sensory overload -- Summer shock -- Love story -- Againts the clock |
| Summary |
Body beautiful: This episode looks at the issue of body image and how it affects most of us in some way or another. In today's society even healthy living is taken to excess. Fuelled by the admiration heaped on minuscule pop stars and supermodels and superfit athletes and actors, in the Western world slim equals beautiful. Body image has become such an obsession that people follow dangerous diets, age their joints and muscles through obsessive exercise and spend much of their lives worrying about not being the right shape or size |
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Detox devils: Detox is the latest fashionable cure-all for the toll that a hectic life, bad diet, excessive drinking, late nights and pollution take on the body. It's all too easy to overindulge, but now a multitude of detox treatments claim to offer a way of reversing the effects of an unhealthy lifestyle - if one is willing to shell out the money |
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Sensory overload: Our senses are an amazing part of normal bodily function - absolutely necessary for our survival yet completely taken for granted, by most of us anyway. It is generally assumed we have five of them, but this is now actually been shown to be wrong. Some scientists say we have nine, some say twenty-one. In fact no one really agrees how many we have |
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Summer shock: Holiday time... Safe? Fun? Relaxing? Think again! Most people love going abroad, getting away from it all and catching a few rays. But though our minds might get a rest, our bodies are put under more strain than ever. Body Hits unravels the psychological and biological tensions involved in spending two weeks in the sun |
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Love story: What goes on inside your brain and body when you experience the incredible highs and lows of love? Dr John Marsden uncovers the science behind the quest for love.Why is it that we are attracted to some people but not to others, and what are we really looking for in an ideal partner? John follows Kashmira, a hopeful single speed-dater, and reveals the truth about the biology of attraction |
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Against the clock: What happens if you don't get enough sleep? How long has anyone survived without it? Witness how John struggles to stay awake for as long as he can and discover what happens to his brain and body as he undergoes a series of challenging tests. How will sleep deprivation affect his ability to make a split second decision on a driving simulator and at a shooting range – and know he has got it right? |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC1 broadcast February 25, March 4, 18, 25, April 1, August 21, 2009. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
| Performer |
Presenter: John Marsden |
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Originally produced: BBC, 2004 |
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Rating:PG |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
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Body image
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Health
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Mind and body
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Mind and body
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| Author |
Marsden, John Dr
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ABC-TV (Australia)
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British Broadcasting Corporation
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