I am looking forward to this one.
Unfortunately, the film is only about 35 minutes long, and will not be released in theatres. It does however have over 60 extra minutes of interviews with each of the experts that were a part of it’s making.
Here is the trailer for it:
It doesn’t come out for a couple of weeks. I’ll let you know if I get the DVD.
One of the people being interviewed there was Dr. Joel Fuhrman. He has a fantastic blog called Disease Proof that I read everyday, and I highly recommend.
From the film’s website:
The statistics are terrifying.
Two hundred million Americans are overweight and 100 million are obese. More than 75 million Americans have high blood pressure. 24 million people are diabetic. Heart disease remains the No. 1 cause of death for men and women, followed by stroke and obesity-related cancers. Obesity has overtaken tobacco as the No. 1 cause of preventable deaths in the United States.
Over 50% of bankruptcies are caused by what has become known as “medical debt.”
Fast food, fast medicine, fast news and fast lives have turned many Americans into a sick, uninformed, indebted, “processed” people.
Processed People features insightful interviews from eight preeminent health and environmental experts/advocates. They discuss how and why Americans got into this mess, and what we can do to break the “processed people” cycle.
A lot of the people from the film can be found on YouTube saying some really great things about health. I’ll dig some of them up and post them soon.
This is GREAT! We will stay tuned for more information. It becomes more and more encouraging to find more informed people talking about what we have been teaching for years. Keep up the good work!
I’m amused that the extras are practically twice as long as the film. Ha.
I can’t listen to the trailer, because I’m on campus, but it looks interesting.
That looks really interesting. If you end up getting the DVD you will have to let us know what you think!
Thanks for posting that. It looks pretty interesting and I’m gonna check out the website too.
Thanks so much for posting that. I’m going to buy a copy to play in our training studio’s lobby for clients.
Yup, I’d like to buy it. It may show on TV at some point, but I wouldn’t know when, and they wouldn’t have the extras.
Hopefully the production is not too Hollywoody.
Awesome…thanks for the heads up
The best thing is we fat bastards eat eat eat and love every bite and you fat haters pay for it. HA HA HA SUCKERS!
Join us and embrace the gluttony! YUM YUM YUM
Something’s got to kill you. It might as well be something good tasting like junk food. Embrace gluttony! 200 million americans can’t be wrong.
Bow to the belly god. YUMMY! Be fat be happy. Be a glorious glutton like me.
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Looks great…I would love to get a copy if you can find out how?
I came across your blog while researching the documentary, “Processed People.” I see that you are disgusted by the obese and love to disgust others with your views. My question to you is, how can I stop being fat? I am about 50lbs overweight. I am a raw vegan and I run (5k races and triathalons, training for a marathon). My doctor says I am in perfect health but due to a hormonal condition losing weight has been nearly impossible, instead I continue to gain! Meds have not helped me nor is there a surgical option. So, tell me, how can I just stop being fat??? Maybe you should be more considerate of what others have to go through. Should I ask, “How can you stop being an asshole?” “How can you stop being so ugly?”
Hmm, good question. Given your circumstance, I’d say:
a) I don’t know – I’m not a doctor/nutritionist
b) You’re a bad vegan
c) You’re exaggerating how much you exercise
Although it is of course more difficult to be overweight being a vegan than if you consumed plenty of cheese, hamburgers, and ice cream, it is possible to consume more calories than you burn on any diet. So, the fact that you are a vegan allows me to presume nothing.
As far as the triathalon training, you didn’t mention that you were good at it… did you?
Once again, just because you say you train, tells me nothing. I’ve known plenty of “weekend warriors” that would ride their bikes and run on the weekends, some claiming to train for some event, that would then eat plenty all week.
It’s called a “non sequitur”. It’s when the conclusion does not follow from the premise.
I’m sorry that you have a hormonal problem, but notice that this means that you are excluded from the people I talk about, if in fact that is what is preventing you from losing those 50 pounds.