In Defense of Food: At the Movies with The Cancer Pod
It’s a new episode of The Cancer Pod podcast and we’re still at the movies. This week we discuss In Defense of Food, a 2015 documentary that tries to answer the question, what can I eat to eat healthy?
The documentary is based on a 2008 book by Michael Pollan, who also has written other best-sellers like The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire.
Click here for the Unofficial Theme Song for this pod. It’s the song that’s played over the final credits in What the Health (E17 At the Movies), and, in our opinion, it was the best part of that shockumentary.
SPOILER ALERT
Overall Rating (out of 5🥦): Tina 🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦; Leah 🥦🥦🥦🥦 1/2
Legit Evidence (out of 5🔬): Tina 🔬🔬🔬🔬; Leah 🔬🔬🔬
Links we mentioned on this episode and other cool stuff:
Prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States (2017-2018), cdc.gov
Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity Among Children and Adolescents Aged 2–19 Years: United States, 1963–1965 Through 2017–2018, cdc.gov
Clinical growth charts
Prevalence of self-reported obesity among U.S. Adults by state and territory, cdc.gov
Foods from subsidized commodities tied to obesity
Association of Higher Consumption of Foods Derived From Subsidized Commodities With Adverse Cardiometabolic Risk Among US Adults, JAMA
Association of Specific Dietary Fats With Total and Cause-Specific Mortality, JAMA
Schlitz Vitamin D Beer, Wisconsin Historical Society
Susan Allport, author of The Queen of Fats
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