El cinematógrafo Morgan Spurlock graba el período de 30 días de su vida en que no come más que comida rápida de McDonald's. El documental también examina el problema de la obesidad en los EE.UU.; programas del almuerzo de las escuelas; y el efecto de los grupos de presión de la industria de la comida rápida.
Las utopías inducidas por las drogas de cuatro personas de Coney Island se hacen añicos cuando sus adicciones se intensifican.
'The Game Changers' se centra en atletas de élite, soldados de las fuerzas especiales, científicos visionarios, iconos culturales y héroes cotidianos. Cada uno de ellos en su misión para crear un cambio en nuestra manera de comer y vivir.
Nola Devlin is an unassuming, frumpy magazine editor who is overlooked and teased by her coworkers. Though, when she is behind the glow and anonymity of her computer screen, she becomes the famous advice columnist Belinda Apple. Nola’s friends, tired of being overworked and overweight, band together to create the Cinderella Pact, vowing to lose pounds by following the advice of Belinda Apple. When her secret identity is threatened, Nola is forced to take her own alter ego’s advice. But, as the group of friends drops dress sizes, their real issues are exposed, and better-than-expected life changes begin to blossom.
Dominick DiNapoli is a man who loves food and is overweight as a result. After an obese cousin dies due to health problems, Dominick's sister Antoinette sets out to help him lose weight. Although he has a hard time trying to slim down, Dominick finds inspiration when he meets and falls for shop owner Lydia. Can he get up the courage to ask her out, or will he go back to the comfort of overeating?
Lo que la Salud es una tierra que rompe el documental de longitud del rasgo de los cineastas premiados de Cowspiracy, que sigue el viaje emocionante del cineasta intrépido, Kip Andersen, ya que destapa los impactos de alimentos de animal industriales muy tratados en nuestra salud personal y mayor comunidad, y explora por qué las organizaciones de salud principales siguen promoviendo la industria a pesar de estudios médicos innumerables e investigación mostrando efectos deletéreos de estos productos en nuestra salud.
The two remaining puppets learn about eating healthy, but things go awry when they receive a mysterious phone call.
This documentary explores the impact that food choices have on people's health, the health of our planet and on the lives of other living species. And also discusses several misconceptions about food and diet.
Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior.
100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn't end well— with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn't far behind. FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe's personal mission to regain his health.
Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad for us.
Five friends travel to a secluded island for a purifying week-long water fast. With no food and electricity, a long forgotten hate surfaces.
In Defense of Food tackles a question more and more people around the world have been asking: What should I eat to be healthy? Based on award-winning journalist Michael Pollan's best-selling book, the program explores how the modern diet has been making us sick and what we can do to change it.
Imagine eating nothing but traditional, authentic Japanese cooking for 12 weeks. What sort of health benefits would this kind of diet have on one's body? In a dieting experiment similar to Supersize Me, but towards improving health, award-winning actor and comedian Craig Anderson does just this. Through a series of entertaining and educational scenarios filled with culinary secrets and cultural chaos, Craig investigates how the traditional Japanese diet, along with their active lifestyles, results in the Japanese population being the healthiest and longest living people on the planet. Miso Hungry is a light-hearted documentary about one man's journey to find a simple, painless path towards a healthier life.
We all want more energy, an ideal body and beautiful younger looking skin... So what is stopping us from getting this? Introducing 'Hungry For Change', the latest 'Food Matters' film. 'Hungry For Change' exposes shocking secrets the diet, weightloss and food industry don't want you to know about. Deceptive strategies designed to keep you craving more and more. Could the foods we are eating actually be keeping us stuck in the diet trap?
Jill is an escort. When she meets Alex who pays to watch her eat, her own desire becomes obsessional. EAT is a descent into the twisting paths of a transgressive and insatiable pleasure.
Uno de cada tres estadounidenses es prediabético. Un gran porcentaje de ellos no sabe que está enfermo. La diabetes de inicio en la edad adulta ya no es una enfermedad para los obesos y los ancianos. Millones de estadounidenses que hacen ejercicio regularmente y comen una dieta recomendada por el USDA se clasifican como "flacos". La conexión entre la dieta estadounidense estándar y numerosos trastornos metabólicos es ahora un hecho tácito en la mayoría de los círculos médicos.
Joe Cross took viewers on his journey from overweight and sick to healthy and fit via a 60-day juice fast in the award-winning Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. With Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2, he looks at keeping healthy habits long-term.
"The Perfect Human Diet" is an unprecedented global exploration to find a solution to our epidemic of overweight obesity and diet-related disease - the #1 killer in America. The film bypasses current dietary group-think by exploring modern dietary science, previous historical findings, ancestral native diets and the emerging field of human dietary evolution; revealing for the first time, the authentic human diet. Film audiences finally have the opportunity to see what our species really needs for optimal health and are introduced to a practical template based on these breakthrough scientific facts.
