Movie Recommendations

There are many interesting food documentaries out there that are worth watching to gain knowledge about food culture, historical food trends, and how these affect populations.  Many of the movies I will list may be biased but still contain quality information.

Food Inc.

Borrowed from Amazon.com

This movie is heavily biased against meat but still entertaining and mind blowing.

Hungry For Change

Hungry For Change is much more motivational than the other movies listed here.  After watching this I felt like going to the grocery and buying all the vegetables.  Everything explained makes sense and encourages a diet change.

Forks Over Knives

This is a high quality movie in my opinion.  It is very similar to Food Inc. in that it is against meat. The western diet is completely slammed and plant based foods stressed.

Supersize Me

This is the movie almost everyone is familiar with.  Disgusting and hilarious, it puts McDonalds' food into perspective.  Many of my friends say "Oh well that's just if you eat it every day" but what they don't realize is that many people do.  Most fast food places don't differ extremely on a health scale.  Even though someone may not be eating McDonalds every day, if they eat Taco Bell, Wendy's, Burger King, or many other fast food chains, it might as well be McDonalds.  These individuals end up feeling similar effects and going down the same path as the super sized Morgan Spurlock.

We do need to recognize which foods from McDonalds are really at fault.  As pointed out in Fathead, listed below, certain foods are much worse than others at McDonalds.

Meat and saturated fat has been continually projected as a main cause of obesity in the U.S.  When we eat a greasy burger along with sugary ketchup and a processed enriched flour bun it is a recipe for obesity.  The sugar triggers fat storage and then the fat from the burger goes straight to where we don't want it to.  I eat tons of meat but what I don't eat all the time is things like white bread and soda.  Meat is high in protein and minerals and our bodies are designed to eat it.  Go for chicken breasts, bacon, burgers, or turkey burgers that you prepare at home with salt-free seasonings and you will feel better.  In the future I hope to make a turkey burger recipe.

Fathead

Borrowed from wikipedia

This movie exposed fallacies commonly believed throughout the U.S.

Fed up

Food Matters

Borrowed from wikipedia

I will continue to add more movies to this list as I view them.