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The Inside Story With Slim Goodbody
Young
children, with guide Slim Goodbody, take a tour of the amazing human
body. With his insides illustrated on his outside, Slim sings and
dances his way through ingenious working models of body parts and
systems. He pauses frequently to show children what’s happening
under their skin (and in it) and what they can do to keep themselves
healthy and ready to enjoy life. Episode Descriptions1 Lubba Dubba:
The Inside Story of Your Heart and Blood — Slim explores
the heart and circulatory system through a reenactment of the circulatory
system and footage of a beating human heart. 2 The Breath
Of Life: The Inside Story of Respiration — Using giant
working models, Slim explains the respiratory system. His concluding
song is about good breathing and care of the lungs. 3 Down, Down,
Down: The Inside Story of Digestion — Gives a step-by-step
explanation of how food is digested. Slim goes on to talk and sing
about nutrition and diet. 4 The Team
That Hustles: The Inside Story of Your Bones and Muscles —
A friendly skeleton joins Slim for a chat about bone structure. 5 The Smart
Parts: The Inside Story of Your Brain and Nervous System —
Slim illustrates the major brain regions and the paths of impulses
throughout the nervous system. He goes on to talk about reflexes
and the autonomic nervous system. 6 The Sensational
Five: The Inside Story of Your Senses — Models show how
the eye, ear, nose, mouth, and skin are "windows on the world."
Slim invites viewers to think through some challenging questions
with him. What’s the value of the senses? What’s it like
when a person is missing a sense? 7 The Little
Giants: The Inside Story of Your Glands — Slim explores
the fascinating electrical and chemical partnership between the
brain and the glands and the importance of the thyroid and pituitary
functions. 8 The Body
Symphony: The Inside Story of Your Whole Body — Explains
the harmony of the body’s complex systems and the basic cellular
structure, showing how cells are grouped into tissues, organs, and
organisms. 9 Protection
Against Infection: The Inside Story of the Immune System and AIDS
— Explains how the immune system protects the body from
attacking viruses and defines AIDS. Demonstrating how AIDS weakens
the body's immune system, he describes ways the virus can spread,
answers common questions about AIDS, and challenges students to
make healthy choices. 10 Attention
to Prevention: The Inside Story — Slim defines a drug as
"a powerful chemical that can change the way you think or feel."
Some drugs are helpful, but others are dangerous and should be avoided. 11 The Cycle
of Life Part I: The Inside Story of Growing Up — Slim explains
that while all people pass through the same stages of life as they
age, no two people do it in exactly the same way or time. 12 The Cycle
of Life Part II: The Inside Story of Growing Up — Slim
describes the onset of adolescence and leads into a study of young
adulthood, middle age, and old age. Finally, Slim explores the issue
of death in a song that portrays this stage as an integral part
of the life process. 13 The Food Pyramid: The Inside Story of Nutrition — Join slim as he travels inside the food pyramid to explore a balanced, healthy diet. |
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