There's a show on that I think we all should watch. It's on PBS at 9:00pm tonight.
This is the description that I get:
“FAT: What No One Is Telling You”.
Meredith Vieira narrates a human scale exploration of
Not sure if you've heard about it, so I thought I'd throw it out there in case you're interested.
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This is what I found on the website:
Face it: We're fat.
With 66 percent of U.S. adults either overweight or obese, our girth is a serious public health issue. Yet many of us still view being overweight as a character flaw, a lack of self-control, or even a moral crime.
But does fat really equal failure? FAT: What No One Is Telling You explores the myriad psychological, physiological and environmental factors that can make it so tough to shed pounds and keep them off. In this documentary, Executive producer Naomi Boak and producer/director Tom Spain, both Emmy Award honorees, share new scientific knowledge about hunger, eating, and human metabolic operation. This film also explains our psychological responses to food, and shows how external pressures (such as oversized restaurant portions and the unending barrage of food advertisement) make fighting fat so difficult, both on the personal and national levels.
FAT's engaging personal narratives create snapshots of our national struggle with obesity:
* Meet Rosie Dehli, a Minnesota grandmother, battling to get fit so she can enjoy an active, playful relationship with her grandchild.
* Meet Mary Dimino, an actress and comedian, in New York, NY, who exemplifies the hard work people must do to lose pounds and stay healthy once they've been obese.
* Meet America Bracho, a public-health professional in Santa Ana, California, who is educating families about nutrition while encouraging her Latino community's children to move, both in school and at home.
* Meet Rocky Tayeh, a Brooklyn, New York teenager grappling with the very personal (and highly criticized) solution of undergoing Lap-Band surgery.
* Meet Dr. Lee Kaplan of Harvard University Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, who is a clinician, researcher and above all an empathetic warrior in the battle against obesity
The voices of these and other real Americans tell the story of the biological barriers, cultural habits, and economic realities that contribute to our nation's expanding waistline.
Wow, this sounds interesting. I'll have to record it since I won't be home tonight.
Hmmm, it's up against American Idol, though . . .I may have to get my daughter's old video TV out!
I don't know what I would do without my DVR. Seriously.
just fyi-
one of your tickers up top still says march instead of april :)
Hey could You possibly ask the genius who did my blog to possibly put one of them there weight trackers on it like you have thanks
Was it any good? Should I make an effort to catch the rerun? Or is it just a bunch of stuff we already know?
Kevin didn't really like it, but I thought it was pretty good. You do hear the complaints of some people who blame it on the environment and such, but some things really hit home for me.
I wouldn't wait 5 hours in line to watch it, but if you catch it on reruns, it's definitely worth a look.
I've got it on DVR, one of these days I'll figure out how to transfer things.
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