Documentary
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.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Super Size Me
Food Matters
Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
The Perfect Meal
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2
Fat Chance
Eating Our Way to Extinction
Average Joe on the Raw
The Game Changers
Pepánek nám nepapá
PlantWise
Health for the Americas: Planning for Good Eating
The Food Cure: Hope or Hype?
Welcome to My Home
Forks Over Knives
An Obese World
Joe Weider's Bodybuilding Training System, Session 8: Nutrition & Diet
Fasting
Run on Fat: Cereal Killers 2
Fat Fiction
SIMILAR MOVIES
Super Size Me
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 2004
Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or obese. He submits himself to a complete check-up by three doctors, comparing his weight along the way, resulting in a scary conclusion.Food Matters
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2010
With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide sickness industry and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2014
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 circlesThe Perfect Meal
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2023
A food-loving and scientific tribute to the Mediterranean diet and, not least, the liquid gold: olive oil.Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2014
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.Fat Chance
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2017
Fat Chance is a grassroots Australian story of physical conquest that will change the way you feed your family forever. This new documentary follows Warren Hepsworth who sets out to ride a pushbike from Perth to Melbourne on a low-carb, high-fat diet. You’ll see Warren’s preparation for the ride as well as highlights and lowlights from the journey, and the diet change. The movie attempts to debunk the notion that athletes have to carb load and that you can’t get your energy from fat. In the process we learn that much of what we’ve been told about a healthy diet is wrong.Eating Our Way to Extinction
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2021
With searing insight that shines light in dark corners, EATING OUR WAY TO EXTINCTION is a compelling feature documentary that opens the lid on the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about. Confronting and entertaining, this documentary allows audiences to question their everyday choices, industry leaders and governments. Featuring a wealth of world-renowned contributors including Sir Richard Branson and Tony Robbins, it has a message of hope that will empower audiences.Average Joe on the Raw
IMDB 9 | Jun , 2011
A 30-year-old " Average Joe" tries eating a clean, raw, plant-based diet and working out for 60 days, on an experimental journey to test the effect on his physical, mental, and emotional life. He hopes to transform his complacency and fatigue (on the Standard American Diet) to an improved version of himself. Medical benchmarks are measured, as experts and others weigh in with opinions and commentary along the way, in a light-hearted look at the modern struggle for health. This is an open conversation, offering hope to us all.The Game Changers
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2019
From the UFC Octagon in Las Vegas and the anthropology lab at Dartmouth, to a strongman gym in Berlin and the bushlands of Zimbabwe, the world is introduced to elite athletes, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, cultural icons, and everyday heroes—each on a mission to create a seismic shift in the way we eat and live.Pepánek nám nepapá
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1951
PlantWise
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2021
PlantWise follows the inspiring stories of six people, each struggling with debilitating health conditions. They learn that the standard American diet — high in fat, sugar and salt and low in fiber and nutrients — is the culprit behind many chronic illnesses. With hope, they discover this epidemic of diseases — heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure — may be reversible. By embracing the benefits of a whole-food, plant-based diet, they’re able to improve or reverse their chronic conditions and find renewed energy and vitality. Weaving together personal stories and evidence-based science, PlantWise puts forward an inspiring message of hope.Health for the Americas: Planning for Good Eating
IMDB 4.6 | Apr , 1946
An educational short from Disney on the importance of good nutrition.The Food Cure: Hope or Hype?
IMDB 10 | Apr , 2018
THE FOOD CURE presents an intimate portrait of six cancer patients who make the radical decision to turn their backs on conventional medicine and put their faith in a controversial alternative cancer treatment based on food.Welcome to My Home
IMDB 8.5 | Jan , 1987
In Brenda Dickson's self-produced video infomercial, the soap star strikes various poses in various baroque evening gowns whilst standing in various corners of her opulent mansion. Then, “through the magic of Hollywood,” Dickson invites the viewer to “teleport into my closets” for lessons on “style, which is as important in your life as your look.”Forks Over Knives
IMDB 7.1 | May , 2011
Examines the profound claim that most; if not all; of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled; or even reversed; by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Cameras follow "reality patients" who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole-foods, plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments - while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.An Obese World
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 2020
As obesity progresses inexorably, Sylvie Gilman and Thierry de Lestrade investigate the causes of this planetary plague and reveal the fight waged in certain countries to stem it.Joe Weider's Bodybuilding Training System, Session 8: Nutrition & Diet
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1994
Session 8 covers some essentials of nutrition for adding muscle definition and mass: macronutrients, proteins, fats, how much to eat and when, losing fat, maintaining muscle, the importance of eating of enough carbohydrates, and year-round consistency.Fasting
IMDB 5.8 | Dec , 2017
Fasting may serve as the solution to solve our epidemic of chronic illnesses today. However, most think of only one method of fasting when they hear the term ‘fasting.’ This documentary explores 7 different methods of fasting including Time-Restricted Feeding, Intermittent & Prolonged Fasting, Long-Term Water Fasting, Religious Fasting, Eating Disorders, Improvising or Fasting Unsafely, Fasting Mimicking Diet, and Juice Fasting. The film interviews 54 people including the world’s leading scientists and medical professionals on fasting, as well as individuals who used fasting to treat obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular problems, skin problems, high blood pressure, chronic headaches, joint pain, and many others. This feature motion picture is the most comprehensive and objective look at fasting on film.Run on Fat: Cereal Killers 2
IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 2015
World class triathlete Sami Inkinen & Dr Steve Phinney challenge the efficacy & safety of "carb loading" for sports performance.Fat Fiction
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 2020
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.