Day 17!

Movies That Make You Smarter & Healthier

Documentaries are a quick, entertaining and educational way to learn more.  Below you will find the trailers for a few movies that will get you thinking.  You can find most of these at your local library or on iTunes.  Have a movie you think is applicable? Post to comments.  

• Food Inc. 

Our biological impulses are being marketed to on a daily basis.  "Food" companies are tapping into your psyche and using those hardwired urges to impact your choices.  Does this mean you are powerless to their persuasion? Absolutely not.  It is important to pay attention and take responsibility for your choices.  

• King Corn

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.

• Hungry for Change

From the creators of the groundbreaking documentary FOOD MATTERS comes another hard-hitting film certain to rock your world.  HUNGRY FOR CHANGE exposes shocking secrets the diet, weightloss and food industry don't want you to know about. Deceptive strategies designed to keep you craving more and more.