Healthy Eating Makes a Difference

199342 min 30 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Sheila Murphy

Production: Michael Hendricks

Script: Sheila Murphy

Produced by Savoury Productions with the financial assistance of the Canadian Hemophilia Society and Health and Welfare Canada.

This title is an acquisition.

Part of a food resource kit for people living with HIV and AIDS, this video offers practical information in everyday language on how those with depressed immune systems can improve their quality of life. Stressing personal empowerment, it includes helpful hints on nutrition and how to make healthy food choices and prepare meals safely, as well as easy-to-follow recipes that are quick, inexpensive and delicious! Made with the help of HIV-positive individuals, the video also offers tips on how to deal with loss of appetite, nausea, diarrhea and weight loss. (A 200 page book that complements the video is available free of charge from the National AIDS Clearinghouse (613) 725-3769.)

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Être mieux en mangeant mieux

Subject categories

  • Health and Medicine > AIDSCoping with Illness and DyingFood Issues and Nutrition
  • Food and Food Industries > Diet and Nutrition

Credits

director
Sheila Murphy
script
Sheila Murphy
editing
Sheila Murphy
narrator
Sheila Murphy
producer
Michael Hendricks
photography
Bernard Fougères
sound
Daniel Masse