패스트푸드를 좋아하세요? 비만인가요? 영화 는 패스트푸드, 비만인 소비자와 다국적기업간의 관계를 파헤치고, 학교 급식, 건강의 기준, 다이어트, 중독에 대한 공포를 보여준다. 감독 모건 스펄록은 촬영이 진행되는 한달 내내 맥도날드 제품만을 먹으며 자신을 실험대상으로 사용하고, 의사, 요리사, 청소년, 체육교사, 변호사등과의 인터뷰를 통해, 패스트푸드를 애호하는 미국인들이 합법적, 재정적, 물리적으로 치루는 대가가 무엇인지 찾아간다. (2004년 제9회 부산국제영화제)
미망인 사라는 평소에 TV 다이어트 강의 <태피 티본스 쇼>를 보는 것이 유일한 낙이다. 그러던 어느날 사라는 그 TV 쇼의 출연 섭외를 받고 들떠, 남편과 함께 참석한 아들의 고교 졸업식 때 입었던 아름다운 빨간 드레스 속의 자신을 상상하지만 살이 찐 그녀에게 드레스는 너무 작아져 버렸다. 그래도 시청자들에게 빨간 드레스 속의 모습을 보여주겠다는 일념으로 결국 의사를 만나 알약을 복용하면서 위험한 다이어트를 감행한다. 한편, 약을 사기 위해 엄마의 애장품 1호 TV를 동네 중고점에 끊임없이 팔아치우는 사라가 가장 사랑하는 아들 해리는 삶의 목표 없이 헤매이는 아름다운 여자친구 마리온과 달콤하고 행복한 미래를 꿈꾸며 외부의 현실과는 단절된 채 살아간다. 그러던 중 해리의 친구 타이론과 함께 한탕 해 멋지게 살아보자고 결심한 이들은 마약 딜러로 나서 성공하지만 모두 헤로인 중독자가 된다. 처음에 쉽게 얻어진 승리감에 도취한 사라는 점점 더 많은 양의 약을 복용하면서 수척해지고 방향감을 잃어간다. 이제는 자신의 아파트에 고립되어 냉장고, TV가 자신을 공격하는 여러가지 환각에 사로잡히고, 타이론은 거래 중 경찰에 잡혀 보석금으로 모은 돈 모두를 날리며 예기치 못한 문제에 부딪히는데...
육식과 채식 중 힘을 기르는 데 효과적인 식단은 무엇일까. UFC 선수가 직접 답을 구하러 나섰다. 그런데 분석 결과가 모두의 상식을 뒤집는다면? 바로, 채식이 그 답이라면? 육식과 채식에 관한 오해와 진실이 밝혀진다.
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?
현대 식생활의 폐해나 건강문제를 의사를 비롯한 다양한 전문가들이 색다른 시각에서 조명한 다큐멘터리
The two remaining puppets learn about eating healthy, but things go awry when they receive a mysterious phone call.
세계 각국의 다양한 사람들의 바른 식생활에 대한 견해를 담은 다큐멘터리
13살이 된 멜라니는 어머니가 케냐로 여행을 간 사이 엄격하기로 소문이 난 다이어트 캠프로 보내진다. 캠프에서 지루한 생활을 하던 중 양호실에서 근무하는 40대 의사에게 묘한 매력을 느끼기 시작한다.
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.
One in three Americans is pre-diabetic. A huge percentage of them do not know that they are sick. Adult onset diabetes is no longer an illness for the obese and elderly. Millions of Americans who regularly exercise and eat a diet recommended by the USDA are classified as "skinny-fat". The connection between the standard American diet and numerous metabolic disorders is now an unspoken fact in most medical circles
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.
