CARB-LOADED: A CULTURE DYING TO EAT

“A most entertaining and nutritional film.” 
- The Reel Dad 


“The cool thing about this documentary is that it is one you would be able to watch with your kids” 
- Cheese with Everything 


“Highly recommended and required viewing…” 
- Red Carpet Crash
Featuring interviews with over 25 nutrition writers, doctors, and food activists, including:
  • Gary Taubes, author, Why We Get Fat
  • Mark Sisson, Ironman competitor and author, The Primal Blueprint
  • Marlene Schwartz PHD, Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, Yale University
  • Brian Wansink  M.D., author, Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
  • Kashia Cave, Founder, My City Kitchen
Nutrion Facts:
  • Diabetes is the 7th leading cause of death in the U.S., and the 8th leading cause of death worldwide
  • Obesity rates for children have tripled in the last 20 years
  • By 2050, one in three Americans will be diabetic and one in two will be obese
  • $245 billion was spend on diabetes in 2012 (50% of total worldwide costs)
  • Over 27 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes
  • 80% of foods at U.S. supermarkets have added sugar or high fructose corn syrup

FILM INFORMATION

GENRE: Documentary
DIRECTOR: Lathe Poland
RUNTIME: 74 min. 
RATING: NR
LANGUAGE: English
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2014
DVDCAT#: PRDVD2614

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GENRE: Documentary, Food and Nutrition, Health and Wellness, American Studies, K-12

SYNOPSIS:
Lathe Poland is fit, healthy and slim - anything but the classic picture of an adult onset diabetes sufferer. So when he is diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, he can't figure out why. Poland quickly learns that much of what he knew about healthy eating was based on myths or fifty year old science. Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat is a chronicle of his search to find out why America's modern food culture is killing us. 

The upside? There is a lot that can be done!

Carb-Loaded traces the origins of common beliefs about (un)healthy eating through guidance from worldwide experts who offer short and long term solutions and challenge the status quo.