Fill my DVD queue with healthy-living flicks.
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Documentaries similar to 'Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead', 'Super Size Me', etc.
Please recommend entertaining documentaries you've seen about weight loss, healthy eating, etc.
Please recommend entertaining documentaries you've seen about weight loss, healthy eating, etc.
America the Beautiful
and
America the Beautiful II: The Thin Commandments
posted by timsteil at 8:44 AM on January 8, 2012
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
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.
Seconding Food Inc.
posted by Fairchild at 8:55 AM on January 8, 2012 [2 favorites]
A lot of my internet friends like Forks Over Knives. I have not seen it yet.
Seconding Food Inc.
posted by Fairchild at 8:55 AM on January 8, 2012 [2 favorites]
Dive was pretty decent. About dumpster diving and food waste.
Botany of Desire might not completely fit your bill, but still very interesting and about food.
Do they need to be about food and health?...
Pyramids of Waste is about planned obsolescence.
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]
Botany of Desire might not completely fit your bill, but still very interesting and about food.
Do they need to be about food and health?...
Pyramids of Waste is about planned obsolescence.
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
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 free online.
posted by ian1977 at 9:07 AM on January 8, 2012
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 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
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 Future of Food
The World According to Monsanto
A Farm for the Future
posted by leigh1 at 11:04 AM on January 8, 2012
The World According to Monsanto
A Farm for the Future
posted by leigh1 at 11:04 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
posted by devymetal at 2:30 PM on January 8, 2012
Second for Fat Head - available for streaming on Netflix
To Market To Market to Buy a Fat Pig
What's on Your Plate?
posted by probablysteve at 7:10 PM on January 8, 2012
To Market To Market to Buy a Fat Pig
What's on Your Plate?
posted by probablysteve at 7:10 PM on January 8, 2012
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