Books are great, but sometimes we just want to kick back and watch a movie or lecture. Here are some food based videos that I recommend.
Motivation To Reduce Carbohydrates
Fat Head is the first movie you should see. It is highly entertaining and does a brilliant job explaining how bad science and political nonsense got our society embracing low-fat diets. Not to give too much away, but our first time filmmaker takes direct aim at Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me for fraudulent journalism.
Motivation to Not Eat Industrialized Grain Fed Animals
Food, Inc. is the shocking documentary that exposes where our food comes from and how it got to be that way.
Motivation to Eat Organic Vegetables and Meats
Fresh is the positive solution to Food Inc. My full review is titled Fresh the Movie – For Those That Still Haven’t Read Omnivores Dilemma.
The Case Against Fructose
If you think fruit juice is an innocent way to get your vitamins, then I highly recommend taking 89 minutes out of your life to watch Sugar: The Bitter Truth. This is a college lecture, so the science gets detailed in the middle, but the message is clear.
The Truth About Diets, Exercise and Obesity
Why We Get Fat is a 1 hour and 43 minute lecture by Gary Taubes, the author of my favorite nutritional book Good Calories, Bad Calories. Beyond outstanding. Gary logically goes through and destroys the myths that surround what everyone believes about diets and obesity.
I enjoyed the Taubes and Sugar videos. Adding Food, Inc. to my Netflix. I keep hearing about that one.
Even better! It’s available for instant viewing.
Someone just posted full notes for Good Calories, Bad Calories.
I watched Killer at Large again and decided it is too flawed of a film to be on this list. So I removed it from the post. I posted my reasons here.