Healthy eating is a challenge-sometimes, it's even a battle. With vending machines, convenience stores, and fast food restaurants almost everywhere, nutritional value can go down in defeat. This high-energy video shows how to defend against the dangers of junk food. Straightforward discussions and dramatizations arm students with a wealth of information on the updated 2005 food pyramid, the different kinds of fats and sugars, how to read ingredients labels, and how to control what foods are available. Commentary from nutrition and food policy experts provides backup, with insights into junk food packaging and advertising tactics. Stop losing battles! Join the Junk Food Wars.

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Sept. 19, 2005. Learn360 is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

Teens at Risk: An Epidemic of Obesity (4:22) -- What Food Does to the Body (1:52) -- Healthy Eating Pyramid (4:49) -- Defining Junk food (3:26) -- Fast Food Restaurants (3:04) -- Convenience Stores and Food Labels (4:26) -- Vending Machines (3:16) -- Eating Right at Home (3:10) -- Eating Right (10:12).