Why can’t we combine both to get to know what could be happening to our food industry or where the food comes from or what happens when we over eat or when we go for healthy food diet?
Many producers and directors worked on several such short movies/ documentaries and presented on screen. These movies worth watching for betterment of our health, our family health.
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Here is a selection of top 8 movies that are related to nutrition, diet, food industry that hold good for all time.
Food is better medicine than drugs! “you are what you eat” this is a basis for this movie. Worldwide people are suffering from obesity and eat junk food a lot. This film tells us how the food we eat shapes us.
What we should do to feel better with our health? As Hippocrates said “Let food be thy medicine” and food choices that we make today helps us or hurts us in longer term. The movie also uncovers the hidden agenda of health care industry.
In this 2008 movie, nutritionist, dieticians, naturopaths, including an investigative journalist – all talk about the influence of raw food, organic food, food safety and nutritional therapy to improve health!
The movie makers (Directors: James Colquhoun, Carlo Ledesma) labels the medical industry as “sickness industry” industries those make profit more from treating the symptoms of illness than curing the illness.
What obesity, illness and steroids can do to our body? – watch this documentary to find out. The main character Joe Cross with 100-pound overweight, an autoimmune disease and in addition steroids in the body decides to act on his health improvement.
It is an inspiring movie. Joe Cross takes control to bring down his weight from 310 pounds.
He believes in body’s ability to heal itself and makes up his mind to support his belief. He trades the junk food for fresh vegetables and fruit juice and hits the road with his juicer to cover 3000 miles with a goal to achieve balanced lifestyle.
Joe also meets another fellow Phil Staple who is morbidly obese man weighing 429 lbs. Along with his own journey to reduce and get healthy, Joe helps Phil to start his dieting regime to become healthy.
Directed by: Joe Cross and Kurt Engfher, 2010 movie. It is an inspiring movie because what many of us think impossible was made possible by Joe. Drinking green juice for 60 days and achieving his goal with diet change! – a inspiring story.
A must watch movie! In this Oscar nominated documentary truth unfolds in front of our eyes and makes us think about where we get our food from.
The movie examines the corporate farming and its influences on everyday food. In the movie, scary truths about the corporate controlled food source unveils.
Animal abuse, animal farming, use of growth hormones for more meat (chicken, beef, pork) production, policy makers lobby – all these graphic documents are reveals on the screen. Movie segments also talks about legal and economic power of food labeling by major food companies.
The powerful movie changed the way American think about the food. Movie was often shown in colleges, vegan support groups, conferences everywhere!
Movie was directed by Robert Kenner in 2008, Michael Pollan is the consultant who also appears in the movie. Eric Schollaser is the co-producer of the movie.
A movie directed by Lee Fulkerson, with a concept similar to super size me by Morgan Spurlock. The difference is here in this documentary Lee explores only plant based food.
No meat, no animal protein, dairy is no good, skim milk is not better either as it contains animal protein ends up in more cholesterol. Also, one need to cut down on sugar, salt and fat.
In this documentary two food scientists focus on the popularity of processed and fast foods that lead to epidemic rates of diabetes, obesity, chronic pain and other conditions.
Instead of eating in a fast food chain, Lee in this movie eats only the plant based whole food for six months and ultimately comes out of blood pressure medications, reduced cholesterol, losing lot of weight, more energy and sleeps better!
Movie stresses on vegetarian diet and asks the viewers to contact their physicians before trying such diet.
Movie also indicates that plant based diet can reduce the risk of conditions such as cancer and can get you off medications! This 2011 movie is filled with statistics and research!
Produced by Academy award winner actor Leonardo De Caprio, this movie (2014) is all for far veganism. The movie explores the threat from animal agriculture to environment and to fossil fuels.
Director Kip Anderson probes question why the Greenpeace like environmental organization keeps quite when we know the fact that the meat industry and big farms lobby for the profit and has tie to the government.
The claim made in this documentary is that most global greenhouse gases that are driving climate change are produced by animal agriculture.
Apart from Greenpeace the other environmental organizations investigated in the film include Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, Rainforest Action Network etc!!
A documentary (2012) by Markus Imhoof who is a decedent of beekeeper family focuses on importance of honey bee and the fear of their extinction that can cause change in our food system.
Many bee species are under the verge of extinction. More than honey gets into the mystery of dwindling bee population worldwide (America, Australia, Switzerland, China and other countries) and how the food supply will be affected by bee’s disappearance.
The colony collapse disorder and agribusiness of honey production – the two phenomenon is well connected by Markus in the documentary.
Movie is also a tutorial of biology and social behavior of bees and cinematography is wonderful (by Jorg Jeshel). Swiss Alps to interior of beautiful beehives brings bees close to your heart and is one must see document.
The film also covers aspects like pesticide effect that sprayed on almond flowers in California and its impact on bee colonies. Randolf Menzel, a German neurobiologist views bee colony as a single large animal!
Per Menzel, the worker bees make up the body, and the drone and the queen are male and female sexual organs. As per this definition a colony of 50,000 bees represents a single organism with nearly 500 billion nerve cells (as compared with the human brain’s 100 billion).
In this movie, Director Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences of eating nothing but McDonald’s food for about month. Spurlock himself becomes a proverbial guinea pig in this hilarious and terrifying movie.
Every day for a month, three meals a day- he eats nothing but supersize order from the McDonald’s menu. While examining the effect of influence of food industry and fast foods on the health Spurlock finds out the influence of fast food diet on his health.
After watching movie many ask one question “why will one eat only MacDonald’s food for a month?”
Movie was made in 2004 (shortly after McDonald’s controversy and legal battel )and still one of the most viewed nutrition related movie – a documentary is available to watch online too.
