educational and inspiring documentaries on Netflix streaming.

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Liftng4Lis wrote: »

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »

stevencloser wrote: »

Ew no. These "documentaries" (and I'm using that term loosely here) are not worth the time it takes to read their synopses.
Rather, check out actual science.

"Mockumentaries"

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nvsmomketo wrote: »

I enjoyed Super Size Me. The fast food and his body's reaction thoroughly grossed me out.

I liked it too when it released, but I liked the rebuttal "Fat Head" a lot more, most of it anyway.

zyxst wrote: »

Only these films are the reasons I enjoy the "can't be viewed in your country" distribution malarkey. I went to watch Hungry For Change just to see what it was about, but The Very Hungry Caterpilar showed up in the search box so I watched that instead.

This made me laugh! I think we can all relate to The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I didn't even know it was on Netflix! o that's this evenings viewing sorted!

Lourdesong wrote: »

weinman2015 wrote: »

Well geez.they helped me.I thought maybe they would help others.I was wrong

How do they help you? Do you juice, eat vegan, avoid sugar and lobby your gov't?
Or is it just the topic of diet, and the profiles done on various people is what does it for you?

If the latter I can kind of get that, I enjoy shows about gastic bypass despite not really agreeing with the method nor am I moved by much of the messages, really, but I still get something out of the profiles on patients, their documented struggles pre and post op, their transformations, etc.

I think this sums up well what a lot of people enjoy about 'mockumentaries', especially health/diet/etc related ones. Or I know it does for me personally anyway. I enjoy seeing people in a much more dire situation than me kick a habit and lose weight. It's not for any 'advice' or anything scientific, I know what works and what will work for me; CICO, counting calories, exercising etc. But it's the nature of seeing someone succeed when it seemed completely hopeless that can be great motivation. If someone who has been obese most of their life and weights twice as much as me can get healthy, then of course I can!

Watching these doesn't hurt - but as I found when I posted about watching Fed Up - there is always another side to the coin. The responses I received that gave me more information were a great help and added to the big picture. Those that just discounted everything about the movie - well, not so much.

Use the information from each movie as a jumping off point and do a little digging on each subject. You will find pros and cons as well as other truths on each subject. But don't get discouraged by the naysayers on here. It's great you are on a quest to find out about food, medicine and the impacts of where our food comes from!!

And Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead got me making smoothies - a great way to feed the picky kids. Can't say I approved of the weight loss plan but it got me started on more adventurous smoothies.

nvsmomketo wrote: »

I enjoyed Super Size Me. The fast food and his body's reaction thoroughly grossed me out.

But the movie is in no way about "fast food" it is actually about the consequences of not taking responsibility for ones choices.

People forget that the driving premise was him surrendering the option to not eat everything offered to him.

The fact is if you replicated his process but instead of stipulating that you HAVE to eat what's offered you exercised moderation do you think you would see anything like his results? McDs is hardly the best possible source of nutrition but you could eat every meal at the place for a year and still be perfectly healthy. If you do what I assume you already do and exercised some self determination.

On the other hand if you duplicated his process at Whole Foods and simply ate everything offered to you every day would you expect a significantly different outcome?

weinman2015 wrote: »

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »

weinman2015 wrote: »

Well geez.they helped me.I thought maybe they would help others.I was wrong

The problem with these documentaries is that they are extremely biased, and they are all pushing some agenda. And then the filmmakers sensationalize everything in them even more so that people will watch them.

The "science" in them is extremely shaky, at best.

So its mostly bs? Like the way animals are treated in food Inc and the fact that they add pink die to meat?I just wanna know what is true

Well it's those very details that are used to muddy the waters and give people little more than emotional reactions to go on.

The way animals are treated in that movie is simply not accurate. The makers take the few accounts of abuse and cruelty hat do happen ( and should be addressed but instead are debased as sensationalist filler to pad bank accounts) and either imply or outright accuse the rest of the industry of the same acts.

Stories about dye and various fillers or preservatives for processed food are presented wildly out of context or outright lied about. Your mother used food dye in your birthday cake, so what? So what if there's pink dye or "goo" in your burger? Is it an image meant to illicit an emotional reaction or something that poses a problem?

I read an "article" about why rawhide bones would kill my dogs because they are poison. Atleast that's what the title promised. The story never actually made that point. The author even sourced statements from animal vets, but those statements amounted to.... Nothing. I'm sure they were truthful but they offered no information relevant to the original statement. They were simply warnings that a dog can choke on a splinter and that rawHIDE bones are in fact made out of animal hide, not animal muscle... Because according to the author that is somehow a common misconception and it also somehow matters. Along with the "disturbing fact that animal hide is often used to make leather. The implication being that something that can be made into leather can not be consumed instead. It's not like we eat the skin of other animals right?

The balance of the story was a description of the unappetizing method of production of the treats. Yeah, cutting up animals is gross. But that dosent make the results unhealthy.

When you hew through the emotional filler of pretty much all these bogus documentaries you get down to at best a very simple idea with some merit. Don't eat ALL the McDonalds, making food from animals can be icky, deal with it... Or don't. It really has no bearing on how fat you are. Abusing animals is bad... So let's address that instead of making the issue out to be insurmountable and casting the people you need to talk to as implacable evil foes. Don't drink impossible amounts of soda over your entire lifespan or you will have a statistically minute chance of contracting cancer... Mebe.

If something like this leaves you feeling outraged but you walk away without usable knowledge on the subject, be suspicious.

Drewlssix wrote: »

nvsmomketo wrote: »

I enjoyed Super Size Me. The fast food and his body's reaction thoroughly grossed me out.

But the movie is in no way about "fast food" it is actually about the consequences of not taking responsibility for ones choices.

People forget that the driving premise was him surrendering the option to not eat everything offered to him.

The fact is if you replicated his process but instead of stipulating that you HAVE to eat what's offered you exercised moderation do you think you would see anything like his results? McDs is hardly the best possible source of nutrition but you could eat every meal at the place for a year and still be perfectly healthy. If you do what I assume you already do and exercised some self determination.

On the other hand if you duplicated his process at Whole Foods and simply ate everything offered to you every day would you expect a significantly different outcome?

You honestly believe that?

Bite Size was pretty interesting. I think it did a pretty good job of telling the story of some kids that are dealing with obesity without trying to sell a product or push an agenda. The rest of them are more like 2 hour infomercials, especially Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead.