Food inc. is great and available on netflix. posted by ttyn at 8:39 AM on January 8, 2012 [3 favorites]
America the Beautiful
and
America the Beautiful II: The Thin Commandments posted by timsteil at 8:44 AM on January 8, 2012
King Corn is a quite depressing documentary about US corn farming and its effects on the country's diet, economy, etc.
I Want To Look Like That Guy charts the filmmaker's quest to go from chubby schlub to fitness model over the course of a few increasingly painful months. It exposes a lot of the myths of the fitness and diet industries and is a good complementary piece to the more well-known drugs in sport doc Bigger, Stronger, Faster. posted by Kandarp Von Bontee at 8:55 AM on January 8, 2012
Fat Head "debunks" Super Size Me. I was a little skeptical going in. I ended up enjoying it immensely and lost a little respect for Spurlock and his Super Size Me experiment.
A lot of my internet friends like Forks Over Knives. I have not seen it yet.
There is also Affluenza, about the perils of hyperconsumerism. It has a companion book, which I am reading and enjoying. I've not seen the doc though. posted by ian1977 at 9:03 AM on January 8, 2012 [1 favorite]
OP:Please recommend entertaining documentaries you've seen about weight loss, healthy eating, etc.
Me:"Do they need to be about food and health?..."
Forgive me! posted by ian1977 at 9:04 AM on January 8, 2012
Oh cool! The book (Affluenza) is available for freeonline. posted by ian1977 at 9:07 AM on January 8, 2012
Oh wait. maybe not. Protected key from the Library of Congress available to the blind and physically handicapped.
I am 0 for 2. Maybe I should go back to bed. posted by ian1977 at 9:09 AM on January 8, 2012
I favorited this comment on the blue and watched the NOVA program it links to. It was really eye-opening to me to see that training for a @#%ing marathon made people fitter, but (in most cases) barely altered their body fat percentage.
Slim Hopes is a little dated and preachy, but comes at the topic with a critical view of media and advertising. posted by Orinda at 10:06 AM on January 8, 2012
"The Beautiful Truth" (ignore the first few minutes- they're unbearably cheesy, but the rest of the movie is pretty interesting, and on a related note, "The Gerson Miracle". posted by devymetal at 2:30 PM on January 8, 2012
Second for Fat Head - available for streaming on Netflix
posted by ttyn at 8:39 AM on January 8, 2012 [3 favorites]