Attitudes about the industrialization of food have changed greatly over the past several decades. What used to be considered a scientific miracle now seems like a horrific joke: piglets being reared in incubators that look like tiny iron lungs; fish raised in tanks of runoff water—and growing at a remarkable rate!—from a nuclear power plant. These scenarios and more are presented in Diet as it traces the rise and fall of processed food, from promising cure for malnourishment to eventually being linked to obesity, heart disease, and cancer. Using archival footage from BBC’s Horizon television series, the program also reviews 20th-century theories about the cause of obesity, and the diets and “miracle cures” designed to combat weight gain.

Films Media Group

Diet, Food, Obesity, Nutrition

van der Pool, James (series producer), Steinitz, Alex (Producer), Steinitz, Alex (Director), Cohen, Andrew (Editor), Jebb, Susan (Host), Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) (Distributor), BBC production

00:51:59 (HH:MM:SS)

English

Higher education

Name	Films Media Group (Firm)
Role	Publisher
Telephone	800-257-5126
Address	200 Metro Blvd. Suite 124 Hamilton, NJ 08619
Email	[email protected]

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