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Jan. 12, 2022

In Defense of Food: At the Movies with The Cancer Pod

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

The Bigger Picture Campaign

Stanford Nutrition Studies Research Group, Christopher Gardner, Director

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