What TV shows do you like to watch about health and eating right?

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thecharon
thecharon Posts: 569 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I cut the cable, but old shows are easy enough to find on the internet. Like healthy habits. How to have a healthy heart. Nutritious foods. Just general health news. I'm looking for shows or videos that last at least 1/2 hour. Not podcasts. Something entertaining, not just a person talking about apple cider vinegar for a half hour.

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,889 Member
    For good health, lose the idea of "eating right". Google "orthorexia" if you must. A wide variety of foods from all the food groups is what we need for good nutrition, so the idea of "nutritious foods" is problematic. Start with Michael Pollan, he is an entertaining speaker and very clever.
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  • JetJaguar
    JetJaguar Posts: 801 Member
    toxikon wrote: »
    I'm quite partial to "Supersized vs Superskinny". It definitely shows CICO in action. Many of the "superskinny" people simply eat very small portions of "junk" food because they're too busy to make "healthy" meals... yet they're underweight!

    Along similar lines, I like "Secret Eaters". It's another British show, and you can find a lot of episodes on YouTube. Each episode features a couple or family who believe they eat very little and can't understand why they continue to gain weight. They set up cameras and have private detectives follow them around and record what they actually eat. It's not unusual for people on the show to be eating 2-3x more calories than they think.
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    JetJaguar wrote: »
    toxikon wrote: »
    I'm quite partial to "Supersized vs Superskinny". It definitely shows CICO in action. Many of the "superskinny" people simply eat very small portions of "junk" food because they're too busy to make "healthy" meals... yet they're underweight!

    Along similar lines, I like "Secret Eaters". It's another British show, and you can find a lot of episodes on YouTube. Each episode features a couple or family who believe they eat very little and can't understand why they continue to gain weight. They set up cameras and have private detectives follow them around and record what they actually eat. It's not unusual for people on the show to be eating 2-3x more calories than they think.

    Oh yeah, I forgot about that one! It's good as well.
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  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    I follow a handful of fitness YouTubers - I find I can't take a lot of them all at once but they are good and motivational to dip into once in a while. I also like to search up "what I eat in a day" videos to get ideas for varying my food, and will look at vegan and paleo and and all kinds for the variety even though I'm just a regular omnivore.
  • ghudson92
    ghudson92 Posts: 2,061 Member
    I don't know if you would be able to get it outside of the UK but I love watching Food Unwrapped, I have learnt so many interesting things about food through watching the show.
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  • NewMeSM75
    NewMeSM75 Posts: 971 Member
    There was a show on food network years and years ago that was pretty good. It was called Hungry Girl. You might try that one.
  • JaydedMiss
    JaydedMiss Posts: 4,286 Member
    i have a youtube video ill send you if you want it just PM me... of a presentation on -stay with me- veganism. The guys actualy really funny and a good presenter and the animal cruelty is downplayed not forced on you. was the first thing i saw that lead to me eating more fruit and veg honestly. To this day i watch it sometimes i just like his presentation style. Seems hes just presenting to a small room of people hes just a personable dude making funny yet very simplistic informed points :p
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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    None...I wouldn't put a whole lot of stock into a show about nutrition and whatnot...most of those things tend to be agenda driven and/or they misrepresent data from actual studies whether willingly or not...
  • Fuzzipeg
    Fuzzipeg Posts: 2,305 Member
    to thecharon, regrettably to quote, say or recommend anything against sugar is not considered, good, by many on here.

    In the UK we have some very interesting food/health programs based around current scientific knowledge by some very health minded doctors. They have a following among us Brits who want to improve or maintain our health knowing what we are doing has solid foundations.

    Often the different series will select participants who are relevant to their different programs in some way. It is not unusual for the specific program to place the participants into three monitored groups, control and this or that scientific theory, the broadcast program then reveals the full concept and if one or other of their highlighted theory's out performs the other being tested, we are told and see the evidence before us because the time from starting the regime to end is often 16 weeks sometimes more. Another looked for specific people to encompass the modern science in that particular situation, again the programme covers many weeks so we can follow the person's progress. These programs are covered by broadcasting codes of ethics.
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