Documentaries?

A good portion of documentaries aren't actually good resources for information. This is just sort of a heads up.

I've seen all of the popular ones, they all sucked.

Well, Fat Head was decent for about 20 minutes.

i dont off hand but if you want a docu about never giving up

Touching The Void

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A good portion of documentaries aren't actually good resources for information. This is just sort of a heads up.

This. While there are some entertaining documentaries out there, many of them are extremely biased, sometimes with misleading information, and do not show the "whole picture" if you catch my drift. I watch them for the entertainment value, and I don't take them as gospel.

That said, there are a few I find interesting, such as Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, and Food, Inc.

There is one on Netflix right now, streaming, called "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" - I think it is very good. A man documents his life before, during, and after doing a juice fast and then travels around the country talking to other people about it. I know someone that just watched it and tried a juice fast for three days - lost 10 lbs.

I saw an interesting one last night on alternate day fasting. Not sure of its availability outside the UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01lxyzc/Horizon_20122013_Eat_Fast_and_Live_Longer/

One that I liked was "Spirit of the Marathon". It follows some people training to run the Chicago marathon. Might not be quite what you're looking for, but I enjoyed it.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/bigger-stronger-faster/ - - awesome documentary about bodybuilding

Pop culture junkies tend to think of Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as entertainment figures. In Poughkeepsie, NY, back in the 1980s, filmmaker Christopher Bell and his brothers viewed them as heroes and became bodybuilders. Like the Hulkster, Mike and Mark Bell even turned to professional wrestling. Chris, a former staffer at Venice’s famous Gold’s Gym, doesn’t use anabolic steroids–he did try them once–but his heroes have and his brothers do, leading him to look deeper at this increasingly common practice.
While Bell explores the health costs of juicing, he’s mostly concerned with the moral consequences involved in the use of performance-enhancing substances. Though he refrains from judgment, he stopped taking steroids because it felt dishonest. Naturally, his burly brothers feel otherwise. Aside from his family, Bell speaks with doctors, lawyers, congressmen, gym rats, and professional athletes, like Olympic sprinters Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis and Tour de France cyclist Floyd Landis.
He also includes footage of José Canseco, Barry Bonds, and Mark McGwire testifying during the federal grand jury and congressional hearings on steroid use in the major leagues (prompted by the publication of Canseco’s Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big). For the most part, Bell doesn’t leave any stone unturned and the personal nature of his entertaining and enlightening inquiry elevates Bigger, Stronger, Faster, i.e. The Side Effects of Being American, above your average exposé. Recommended to athletes, sports fans, health nuts, and of course, pop culture junkies

DW and I have enjoyed watching:

Food, Inc.
Vegucated
Food Matters
Fresh
Forks over Knives
Weight of the Nation
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead

Most of these are available on either Netflix and/or Amazon Instant Video--excepting Weight of the Nation, which is on HBO.

I specifically recommend Forks over Knives and Food, Inc.. Those sparked a fairly intense bout of research and, consequently, a major change in our habits.

The rest were interesting and well worth watching.