Spend your evening watching documentaries that dot all the I’s and cross all the T’s of some gastronomic questions.
DOUBLE PORTS.
A film that will make fast food lovers reconsider their gastronomic habits. This is the project of Morgan Spurlock, a director, screenwriter and protagonist who risked being subjected to a rigorous experiment. Spurlock wanted to find out and show the world what happens to the body of a healthy person who eats only at McDonald’s for a month.
THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT FOOD.
This is a science series produced by the BBC which consists of 6 episodes of 45 minutes each. The series debunks gastronomic myths and discovers new healthy facts. This work is divided into separate topics “how to become”: beautiful, slim, the best, desirable. The authors tell why some people eat a lot and don’t gain weight, whether red wine affects heart health, whether heavy drinking helps improve the skin, which macronutrient is more nourishing, etc. This series is the kind of self-education that will be useful in everyday life.
WANT TO CHANGE
Particularly impressionable be warned: this film very convincingly promotes raw eating. This type of diet is shown as a panacea for people with complex and incurable diseases: inspiring examples of the “healing” of obesity and cancer sufferers by switching to fruits and vegetables. The filmmakers also show the harsh truth about sugar and its substitutes. It’s worth watching, but consult a doctor before making any serious decisions about lifestyle changes.
FAST FOOD NATION.
A feature film about the underside of the fast food industry with a stellar cast. The film is based on Eric Schlosser’s book of the same name, which describes the industry’s harm to both health and the economy. Viewers are exposed to all the dark and brutal truth: the hardest part is about the desperate situation of guest workers in slaughterhouses with actual footage from the slaughterhouse.
FORKS INSTEAD OF KNIVES
The basis of this documentary is the research of two independent scientists. The film describes the results of their work in detail, and they will not please fans of meat and dairy products. The consumption of animal protein has a devastating effect on the human body, in particular with its inclusion in the daily diet cancerous tumors grow and develop faster and more intensively. With dairy products, too, everything is not so optimistic: the acid that the body produces when consuming dairy products is neutralized only by the calcium from the bones.
DESPERATE TASTERS DEPART.
A light and witty series produced by the BBC about life and nutrition in different eras. The main characters of the series are comedian Sue Perkins and restaurant critic, writer, and foodie Giles Koren. The pair “travel through time,” traveling to a particular era for a week, fully adopting the lifestyle and food principles of the time. Before each new adventure, the actors measure all their body measurements and track the changes afterwards.
