obesity at Brave New Films

The Daily Left - Grandma Sarah Palin

2009-01-07T22:35:56Z

Sarah Palin Is Now A Grandmother ; Report Claims Economic Crisis Could Lead to Military Intervention ; NY Gov. Proposes "Fat Tax" on Sugary Drinks.

Watch the video

Alliance for a Healthier Generation Video: Eliminating childhood obesity

2009-01-07T22:28:02Z

President Clinton meets with Justin DeParis, a Youth Advisory Board member of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, to discuss our nation's growing health crisis: 1 in 3 young people are overweight or obese and are facing emotional and health struggles as a result. To date, more than 1 million kids across the country have become engaged and made a commitment to eat better and move more. Help us reach our goal to get 2 million kids involved by 2010.

Watch the video

Meet The Bloggers: Dr. Marion Nestle on Why We Eat More Than We Actually Need

2009-01-07T22:48:15Z

This week on Meet the Bloggers, Dr. Marion Nestle discussed food policy and why often what we eat makes us sick. Dr. Nestle is the author of What to Eat and a professor at NYU.

Watch more at http://meetthebloggers.org/.

Watch the video

Meet the Bloggers: How Food Companies Have Caused Obesity

2009-01-07T22:48:15Z

As a nutrition professor, I am constantly asked why nutrition advice changes so much and why experts so often disagree. Whose information, people ask me, can we trust? I’m always tempted to say, “Mine, of course,” but I understand the problem. Yes, nutrition advice is complicated by scientific arguments, the vested interests of food companies, and compromised government regulations. But basic dietary advice has been the same for 50 years and is not in dispute. I summarize it as “eat less; move more; eat fruits, vegetables and whole grains; and avoid too much junk food.” Michael Pollan says the same thing more succinctly: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

If dietary advice seems more complicated than that, it is surely because of the effects of rising rates of obesity on food companies. Food companies must sell products to stay in business; they must promote “eat more.” But obesity is the most important public health nutrition problem these days, and the solution to obesity is to “eat less.” This puts public health in conflict with food company business needs.

What We Eat Is Making Us Sick -- Friday on Meet the Bloggers

2009-01-02T20:13:12Z

Obesity is on the rise and Type 2 diabetes cases nearly doubled in the last 10 years. For the first time in decades, the life expectancy of children born in this century is actually lower than their parents. What's the number one culprit in this crisis? Food. Meanwhile, food safety is spotty. The U.S. lacks a comprehensive "farm to table" food inspection process. That's why the Centers for Disease Control estimates there are 76 million cases of food borne illness each year!

What we eat is making us sick! To find out why -- and what we can do about it -- join food scientist Marion Nestle this Friday on Meet the Bloggers. Nestle is the author of What to Eat and a professor in the Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health Department at New York University. We'll also chat with filmmaker Catherine Gund, director of the upcoming documentary What's On Your Plate?, along with the two young subjects of her film, 7th graders Sadie Hope-Gund and Safiyahi Riddle. Then blogger Kerry Trueman (Huffington Post, Eating Liberally) shares some not-particularly-appetizing information about the traditional holiday turkey, and we'll visit our local farmers' market to learn why we should eat locally and seasonally.

The next episode of Meet the Bloggers will be available beginning Friday, November 21. Check out some of the articles below and fight the food policies that have failed us with your knife and fork!

What to Eat -- Marion Nestle
Time to Mothball the Butterball -- Kerry Trueman, The Huffington Post
Finding the Best, Local Food Near You Just Got Easier -- Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Dear Mr. Next President -- Food, Food, Food -- Michael Pollan, The New York Times
Diabetes Rate Doubles Over Past 10 Years in the U.S. -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Meet The Bloggers: Living a Sustainable Life

2009-01-07T22:48:15Z

Congratulations! If you are reading this, you have found a fantastic resource for getting the information you need to live a sustainable life. We at Brave New Foundation are out to find resources that can help people to do something to effect positive social change. Meet the Bloggers is a new online show that, issue by issue, helps its viewers to make the unconscious conscious, and choose sustainable living.

On our last show, we hosted Dr. Marion Nestle and got real about the impacts of industrial food production. We presented as an alternative shopping organic, shopping local, and learning how by visiting www.sustainabletable.org.

You can see the whole show at www.meetthebloggers.org. Come on by and spread the word. Let’s make this holiday season a record one for sustainably produced foods.

Watch the video

Marketing Junk Food to Kids - Marion Nestle

2008-12-18T12:57:29Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

NYU nutritionist Dr. Marion Nestle examines the controversial food industry practice of creating advertising directed at children.

-----

Marion Nestle, NYU Professor of Nutrition and author of Food Politics, Safe Food, and What to Eat, gives a talk entitled What to Eat: Personal Responsibility or Social Responsibility.

Nestle discusses the U.S. food system including supermarket strategies. She informs and advises the audience at the Chautauqua Institution's 2008 program about what and how to eat.

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

Watch the video

Mike Huckabee: Speech 1/12/08

2008-11-17T12:47:57Z

Mike Huckabee
Speech at Pastor's Breakfast, Amway Grand Plaza
Grand Rapids, MI 1/12/08

TRANSCRIPT:
MIKE HUCKABEE: 80% of all the healthcare expenditures in this country are for chronic disease. We dont have a healthcare crisis, we have a health crisis.

LABEL: MH MI 1-12 (JC#75) CDILP-clipA

To download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/q34j1ctkym#MH_MI_1-12_(JC#75)_CDILP_-_Cli

To download the full campaign event, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/ppjyda11h4#MH_MI_1-12_(JC#75)_CDILP_comp

Watch the video

Your Kids a Fatty | ZapRoot 058

2009-01-07T22:27:46Z

Obesity expands to European children. Ford increases green efforts. Robert De Niros restaurant servers an endangered species.

ZapRoot
http://www.zaproot.com

Community Site
http://boldurl.com/UCgwNh69

BuyGreen.com Solio Solar Charger
boldurl.com

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

EcoWorldy - Fat Kids
http://ecoworldly.com/2008/09/03/us-130-million-european-union-budget-to-feed-fruits-and-vegetables-to-obese-kids/
Gas 2.0 - Ford Ethanol Injection
http://gas2.org/2008/09/03/ford-promises-30-better-mileage-using-ethanol-injection/
Gas 2.0 - Ford Smaller Cars
http://gas2.org/2008/07/24/like-gm-ford-decides-theyd-better-start-producing-smaller-more-fuel-efficient-cars/
Gas 2.0 - Convert That F-150
http://gas2.org/2008/07/28/startup-converting-ford-f-150s-into-41-mpg-plug-in-hybrid-electric-vehicles/
Gas 2.0 - Ford Plug In Hybrid
http://gas2.org/2008/06/13/prototype-ford-escape-plug-in-hybrid-88-mpg-on-85-ethanol/
Gas 2.0 - Ford Goes Green?
http://gas2.org/2008/08/12/fords-greening-plan-will-it-be-successful/
Are you talking to me. fish?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/06/eatuna106.xml

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Subscribe using your favorite platform:

iTunes HTML Link
http://boldurl.com/U7LdRLJ9
YouTube
http://boldurl.com/UwgkpQ59
Yahoo Video
http://boldurl.com/URSKS2B9
My Yahoo
http://boldurl.com/U4cLNgw9
Google RSS
http://boldurl.com/UHXHpxF9
AOL
http://boldurl.com/U2Zbv0j9
Bloglines
http://boldurl.com/U84ZQBj9
Windows Live
http://boldurl.com/UPw21WZ9
Miro
http://boldurl.com/UCbNSYp9
Regular RSS
http://feeds.feedburner.com/zaproot
RSS XML Format
feed://feeds.feedburner.com/zaproot?format=xml

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Discrimination Against Overweight People

2008-10-30T09:33:08Z

Watch more at www.theyoungturks.com

Watch the video

Death Penalty: Too Fat??

2009-01-07T22:20:25Z

Full show and forum at www.theresident.net

Watch the video

Africa Uncovered - Mauritania: Fat or Fiction - 11 Aug 08 - Part 2

2008-10-28T21:31:22Z

Big is often regarded as beautiful in Mauritania, but the controversial act of force-feeding is still practiced in some parts of the country.

Watch the video

Africa Uncovered - Mauritania - Fat or Fiction

2008-10-28T21:31:21Z

When it comes to the nation of female beauty, Nouakchot to day is a place of contrast to most other world capitals. On these streets it is a fat woman who turns heads - not a thin one. In Mauritania slim is not 'in' - but is force-feeding a justifiable practice to meet the local beauty standard?

Watch the video

Street Food - Beijing - 14 July 08 - Part 1

2008-10-27T15:31:31Z

China's economy is expanding at an astounding rate - but its waistlines are too.

The food of the streets tells the story of a culture torn between tradition and modernity, the customs of an ancient past competing with the convenience age of the new. What will survive and what will be lost? In a China which has gone within two generations from mass starvation to mass obesity, what does the future hold?

Watch the video

Street Food - Beijing - 14 July 08 - Part 2

2008-10-27T15:31:31Z

China's economy is expanding at an astounding rate - but its waistlines are too.

Watch the video

McCain: Speech and Roundtable 3/25/08

2008-10-26T21:30:39Z

John McCain
Speech and Roundtable
Santa Ana, CA 03/25/08

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIONER: "Will you continue to make a commitment to the federal programs that help fund healthcare systems, healthcare services to our children, children of our workers here in this factory, in this community?"

JOHN MCCAIN: "Yes I will, but I would also like to ask your views on one of the major factors that contribute enormously to this challenge. And that's wellness and fitness. I know that you know that recent statistical data show that there's an increase among young Americans, high blood pressure, diabeties and obesity. And that obviously drives everybody's healthcare costs up. I'd like to have every well-known athlete in America go to the schools and talk to, talk to the young people about the need for good diets and exercise and other things but um—I'd also like to check on the school lunch program . . ."

LABEL: JM CA 3-25 (JC#121) AGZZ - ClipG

To download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/xdw0oi00g0

To download the full campaign event, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/lh5yscoco4

Watch the video

John McCain: Town Hall 04/30/08

2008-10-26T21:30:19Z

John McCain
Town Hall Meeting
Allentown, PA 04/30/08

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIONER: ". . . how do you feel about preventative care . . . ? And if, if you would not become the president, how would you feel about expressing those viewpoints that you have that are very good. I've heard you talk and I agree a lot with what you said, how would you work with whoever became the president?"

JOHN MCCAIN: ". . . One of the most alarming statistics in America today is the increase of obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes amongst young Americans. There is no health care system in the world that can sustain the cost of a continued increase in those, just those three aspects of America's health . . . It's impossible to reduce the cost of health care in America if that's the case. But more importantly we are, as we have seen through many, many years, and maybe centuries, an increase in the life span of Americans that could level off because of the health and wellness of another generation of Americans. Um, I would like to see everything ranging from insurance companies rewarding their clients for wellness and fitness to employers rewarding their employees if they join a health club . . . young Americans . . . really look up to . . . our great athletes. And I'd love to see my friend, Shaquille O'Neal, who just finished the playoffs last night . . . he inaugurated a program in Miami . . . called "Shaq's Challenge." And I had at Miami Children's Hospital a chance to meet a young man who had lost 76 pounds who had taken up Shaq's challenge . . . Smoking. My friends, I smoked for a long time. It used to be the thing that Navy pilots did, it was part of our sort of image . . . Smoking is really, really unfortunate . . . We have taxes on cigarettes today and that money, instead of going to programs to disincentivize young Americans to smoke . . . it's general revenues. And it was supposed to go . . . to these programs and it's not . . . So, wellness and fitness, wellness and fitness."

LABEL: JM PA 4-30 (GR#81) DHGIS - Clip D

To download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/443dr9ucck
To download the full campaign event, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/9xb1l2348c

Watch the video

McCain: Town Hall 05/01/08

2008-10-26T21:29:39Z

John McCain
Town Hall
Cleveland, OH 05/05/08

TRANSCRIPT:
MICHELLE BENTLEY: Hi, my name is Michelle Bentley . . . our current medial system seems to be more reactive than proactive . . . how does your plan address this issue?

JOHN MCCAIN: . . . there are many things that I did not cover in my opening comments . . . one of the most alarming statistics is the rise amongst young people of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. No health care system in the world can sustain an increase in that amongst young people. We have to emphasis wellness and fitness, ranging from insurance policies that reward people . . . and by the way we can certainly put their medical records online, if they wish to they can show those medical records to their insurer. We also, obviously need to encourage simple things like membership in a health club, cash rewards back to the employees for employees that have practiced the wellness and fitness habits . . . I also want to mention one other thing that sounds a little, maybe, naïve but I think it's effective. At Miami Children's Hospital I met a young man who had lost 76 pounds by dieting and exercise. And the motivation for that young man to do that was a thing called Shaq's challenge. Shaquille O'Neal had engaged in a program where Shaq challenged young people to get back into shape . . . I'd like to ask every athlete in America that is famous and doing well to go around to our schools all over America . . . I think every parent should know the school lunch program at their school, I think every parent should know the physical education program that is at each of these schools and we've got to make young people understand that wellness and fitness is directly related to their future and their longevity in this great nation. So I think we need to put in a lot of incentives from insurance point of view . . . but I would also like to see us do a better job of motivating young Americans

LABEL:
JM OH 5-1 (EW#5) DAGH -- Clip G

To download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/tiv6j9748g

To download the full campaign event, VISIT: Tape 1: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/56q9jm2ccs; Tape 2: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/qwcj4u6scw

Watch the video

The Onion: Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less

2008-11-06T08:52:01Z

Fast food giant Yum! Brands believes its new feedbags will make it even easier for Americans to constantly be eating.

More coverage at: onion.com

Watch the video

Pranktivism: Obesity Exchange

2009-01-07T22:30:42Z

Lee Camp's Pranktivism tries to talk people into signing up for the Obesity Exchange Program.

Watch the video

Riz Khan - Stigma of obesity - 07 April 08 - Part 1

2008-10-17T03:30:15Z

Riz Khan discusses obesity discrimination in the US and its hurtful affects.

Watch the video

Riz Khan - Stigma of obesity - 07 April 08 - Part 2

2008-10-17T09:30:43Z

Riz Khan discusses obesity discrimination in the US and its hurtful affects.

Watch the video

The Future of Food

2008-02-26T00:50:51Z

Agribusiness proponents claim that genetically modified (GM) food crops will lower costs, increase yields, decrease the need for chemicals and help stave off world hunger. Opponents worry about the health risks and the threat to the environment-fearing that in the frenzied quest for higher profits, only minimal research has been done to prove the safety of GM crops. Enter: "The Future of Food", a troubling exposé into the reality behind the unlabeled, patented, GM foods that have secretly entered our marketplace in the past decade.

The documentary examines the collusion between industrial interest and political forces that are changing our diet as huge multinational corporations, ie. Monsanto, ConAgra, etc. seek to control the world's food system.

Riz Khan's Street Talk - 27 Dec 07

2008-10-21T03:31:03Z

On Riz Khan Street Talk: One doctor has caused controversy by urging airlines to charge obese passengers more for their seat, as more risks of obesity are announced everyday.

Watch the video

Why was this woman denied immigration to New Zealand?

2008-10-21T15:30:01Z

Watch the Young Turks at www.theyoungturks.com. The injustice of being overweight.

Watch the video