| Edition |
Widescreen edition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. rda |
| Description |
digital optical rda |
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NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video Region 1 rda |
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Documentary television program |
| Note |
Based on the book by Michael Pollan. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The Western diet -- Too much sugar -- Lessons from nature -- What can we do? -- The low fat campaign -- A food desert blooms -- Mostly plants -- Longest living Americans -- Our microscopic partners -- Not too much -- Secrets of the buffet line -- Soda politics -- The French paradox -- Conclusion. |
| Credits |
Editors, Rhonda Collins, Gail Huddleson ; director of photography, Vicente Franco ; original score, Christopher Hedge. |
| Performer |
Featuring, Michael Pollan. |
| Event |
Originally produced in 2015 for KQED. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Summary |
In Defense of Food tackles a question more and more people around the world have been asking: What should I eat to be healthy? Based on award-winning journalist Michael Pollan's best-selling book, the program explores how the modern diet has been making us sick and what we can do to change it. |
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""Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." Indeed, plain old eating is being replaced by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Pollan's advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Looking at what science does and does not know about diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about what to eat, informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the nutrient-by-nutrient approach"-- From publisher description. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, widescreen; stereo. |
| Language |
In English with optional English SDH subtitles. |
| Subject |
Nutrition.
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Food habits.
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Diet in disease.
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Food industry and trade.
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Nutritional Physiological Phenomena -- Popular Works.
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Feeding Behavior.
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Nutrition.
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Food habits.
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United States.
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Nutrition humaine.
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Aliments.
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Additifs alimentaires.
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Santé.
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Régimes alimentaires.
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Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
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Food habits. (OCoLC)fst00930807
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Nutrition. (OCoLC)fst01042187
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Voedingsgewoonten.
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United States.
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Ernährung.
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Ernährungserziehung.
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Ernährungsgewohnheit.
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Zivilisationskrankheit.
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Eating customs.
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Food.
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Diet.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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Television adaptations.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Educational television programs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Pollan, Michael, host.
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Schwarz, Michael, 1953-2019, producer, director.
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Gray, Edward, producer, screenwriter.
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Pollan, Michael.
In defense of food.
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Kikim Media, production company.
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KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)
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PBS Distribution (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781627895743 |
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1627895744 |
| Standard No. |
841887027113 |
| Music No. |
IDOF601 PBS Distribution |
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