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1) The whale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini have made a hard-hitting documentary film that exposes the widespread myths and lies around healthy eating, fat, and weight loss and shows how, in spite of all good intentions, they go on getting fatter and fatter.
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Pretty, popular, athletic 17-year-old Aly is on the fast track to college when an accident blows out her knee and any chance for an athletic scholarship. A documentary contest, and her mother's constant struggle with weight, gives her the idea to go undercover at high school wearing a 'fat suit' and hidden camera to prove that personality can outshine physical difference. Aly has always been slim and confident, so she is totally unprepared for the...
5) Fed up
Publisher
Atlas Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Examines the role of the food industry in the obesity epidemic in the United States.
6) Shallow Hal
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Following the advice of his dying father, Hal dates only physically beautiful women. One day, he runs into a self-help guru who hypnotizes him into recognizing only the inner beauty of women. Hal then meets Rosemary, a grossly obese woman who Hal sees as a vision of loveliness. Will their relationship survive when Hal's equally shallow friend undoes the hypnosis and Hal sees the real Rosemary?
7) Diet wars
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the array of weight loss programs from Atkins to Weight Watchers and shows the contradictory principles in each.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Irene must endure two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following her passion for cheerleading, she secretly signs up the senior residents to audition for a dance themed reality show to prove that people don't need to be physically perfect to be perfectly awesome.
Publisher
Kathbur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a journey to find out if fast food is making Americans fat. For 30 days he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on McDonald's menu; he must eat three square meals a day, he must eat everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. He treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and a number of regular folk while downing McDonald's to try and find out why 37% of American...
10) Food stamped
Publisher
Summit Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An informative and humorous documentary film following a couple as they attempt to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet on a food stamp budget. Through their adventures they consult with members of U.S. Congress, food justice organizations, nutrition experts, and people living on food stamps to take a deep look at America's broken food system.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Lustig explains that the problem is the quality and not the quantity of food people eat. The real culprit is processed food, loaded with added sugar and stripped of its natural fiber and nutrients. He is leading the groundswell to expose the high sugar content in processed food, and the dangers and costs to our health.
