It premieres on the 14th in a few days. You'll be able to watch it online:
http://theweightofthenation.hbo.com/film...nsequences
Trailer:
http://theweightofthenation.hbo.com/film...nsequences
Trailer:
Quote: (05-11-2012 11:54 PM)WesternCancer Wrote:
Americans rely on convenience and make the primary flavours of their food salt, fat, and sugar.
Elsewhere in the world many cultures rely on actual herbs and spices to make their food delicious. I cooked a thai dish today from a cookbook. Sure it was high in calories and fat from the coconut milk, but the flavours were deep and complex. If you take time to enjoy that sensation food will take on a new meaning. So many people I know eat food just because they are hungry not because they even have pleasure in tasting it.
Quote: (07-17-2016 03:22 PM)Marcus Aurelius Wrote:
I generally see this as a form of social Darwinism. It's kind of like smoking in that everyone knows its unhealthy (full disclosure, i do smoke on occasion). All of these fat people know what their doing is unhealthy, the just don't have the willpower to do anything about it. Last year I graduated college and realized I was overweight, so I made the conscious decision to eat better and lose the weight. If Americans want to stay fat, let them. Its less competition for the rest of us.
Quote: (07-17-2016 03:22 PM)Marcus Aurelius Wrote:
I generally see this as a form of social Darwinism. It's kind of like smoking in that everyone knows its unhealthy (full disclosure, i do smoke on occasion).
Quote: (07-17-2016 04:16 PM)JayJuanGee Wrote:
I agree that people are generally smarter than they get credit for; however, I do believe that the amount of disinformation is overwhelming, and generally fat people make a lot of efforts to attempt to lose weight (not all fat people, of course); however, frequently people believe that they are eating healthy food (because it says "healthy" on the box), and I cannot really blame them for such disinformation.
Quote: (07-17-2016 06:15 PM)Hell_Is_Like_Newark Wrote:
Quote: (07-17-2016 04:16 PM)JayJuanGee Wrote:
I agree that people are generally smarter than they get credit for; however, I do believe that the amount of disinformation is overwhelming, and generally fat people make a lot of efforts to attempt to lose weight (not all fat people, of course); however, frequently people believe that they are eating healthy food (because it says "healthy" on the box), and I cannot really blame them for such disinformation.
This ties into the conversation we had in another thread (Keto diet):
Quote: (07-17-2016 06:15 PM)Hell_Is_Like_Newark Wrote:
On my Facebook I have a friend who went mostly vegan. I get tagged on all sorts of posts about how meat will give you all sorts of diseases and will cause the earth to turn into an overheated poised sphere of death in x many years or so. Then there are lots of posts about the joy and health of living on a 100% plant based diet.
Quote: (07-17-2016 06:15 PM)Hell_Is_Like_Newark Wrote:
The stuff she has posted (minus the planet killing crap) is pretty much the same spiel I got as a kid in public school health classes (this was before Vegan was even a term). Today in my city, the public school have 'Meatless Mondays' and a private nursery school instituted mandatory vegan meals.
Quote: (07-17-2016 06:15 PM)Hell_Is_Like_Newark Wrote:
Three years ago, my health improved dramatically when I cut waay back on sugar / carbs and added more animal protein and fat to my diet (always ate a lot of green veggies). I have the blood work and the weight loss to prove it.
Quote: (07-17-2016 06:15 PM)Hell_Is_Like_Newark Wrote:
The government's food period and veganism are both full of high carb crap.
Quote: (07-17-2016 06:08 PM)Hell_Is_Like_Newark Wrote:
Quote: (07-17-2016 03:22 PM)Marcus Aurelius Wrote:
I generally see this as a form of social Darwinism. It's kind of like smoking in that everyone knows its unhealthy (full disclosure, i do smoke on occasion).
I would love to live in a libertarian world where we pretty much controlled our own destinies.. for better or worse.
However in this world, we have a level of socialized medicine: Business group policies, Medicade, Medicare, ACA, etc.... 5% of the people eat up over 80% of the health care costs. Morbidly obese will drain the system with their cascading health issues.
Quote: (07-19-2016 09:56 AM)Aurini Wrote:
In response to the movie "Supersize Me" there was a paleo-inspired movie titled "Fat Head"; the main guy decides to lose weight on a pure fast food diet, and it provides a fair bit of information on digestion, fats, etc. It was probably better than the HBO documentary will be:
Quote: (07-21-2016 06:12 PM)HighSpeed_LowDrag Wrote:
This was aired in 2012 - you can find the four parts on Youtube.