Summary: Spurlocks social experiment in fast food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from McDonald's menu for an entire month. He also examines the corporate giant's role in contributing to America's obesity epidemic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films, LLC 2004
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Summary: The documentary film PlantPure Nation tells the story of three people on a quest to spread the message of one of the most important health breakthroughs of all time. After renowned nutritional scientist and bestselling author Dr. T. Colin Campbell gives a stirring speech on the floor of the Kentucky House of Representatives, his son Nelson, and Kentucky State Representative Tom Riner work...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PlantPure Productions LCC 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLASummary: This film examines the claim that most if not all degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. It traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Although they didn't know each other, their individual research led to startlingly similar conclusions:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monica Beach Media 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 616.39 FORCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORSummary: What if one simple change could save you from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer? Examine a whole-foods, plant-based diet-- it could save your life. This accessible guide provides the information you need to adopt and maintain a plant-based diet, with tips on transitioning, success stories from converts, and recipes for delicious, healthy, every-day meals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.28 FORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Veg ForksSummary: Despite the swelling ranks of the overweight, a significant portion of the population seems immune to obesity. Do some people have a natural ability to maintain a thin physique, no matter how much they eat or how little they exercise? This program explores the phenomenon of effortless slimness and its biological causes. Based on a 1967 experiment involving Vermont State Prison inmates, ten...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Taubes, Gary
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 TAUCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 613.2 TAUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Nu TaubesSummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2016
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INHyman, Mark
Summary: Outlines a six-week program for detoxifying and fortifying the body in order to maximize brain function, bolster energy levels, and treat a variety of mood disorders.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.89 HYMSummary: "Go behind the scenes and watch as Mark Hyman, M.D. explains how the latest research reveals that your mood problems, memory problems and trouble focusing ... even your depression, anxiety, ADD, autism and Alzheimer's are NOT all in your head. The solution to these problems lie inside your BODY. By fixing your body FIRST, you will awaken your body's natural intelligence allowing it to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: UltraWellness 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 HymBrantley, Timothy.
Summary: Presents on advice on how changing eating habits and incorporating exercise, rest, and relaxation into our lifestyles can lead to better health and well-being.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.22 BRASummary: "A gripping tale of microbes, medicine and money, Under our skin exposes the hidden story of Lyme disease, one of the most controversial and fastest growing epidemics of our time. Each year, thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, often told that their symptoms are 'all in their head.' Following the stories of patients and physicians fighting for their lives and livelihoods, the film brings...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Open Eye Pictures 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNDPopper, Pamela.
Summary: Backed by numerous scientific studies, this timely resource discusses the dire state of American health due to poor nutrition choices based on cynical food politics and medical misinformation and reveals how diet can dramatically improve and turn around many life-threatening conditions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.39 POPBell, Alan
Summary: "After years of prosecuting hard-core criminals, rising legal star Alan Bell took a private sector job in South Florida's newest skyscraper. Suddenly, he suffered such bizarre medical symptoms, doctors suspected he'd been poisoned by the Mafia. Bell's rapidly declining health forced him to flee his glamorous Miami life to a sterile "bubble" in the remote Arizona desert. As his career and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, ALAN BELSummary: This program explains what it means to "eat right," examines the special nutritional requirements of older adults, and considers food-related health concerns that can affect nutritional status later in life. In addition to detailed food and fluid guidelines for healthy living, the following are addressed: nutrient deficiencies common to the aging adult; malnutrition-related conditions such as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: After repeated failed attempts at weight reduction through diet and exercise, surgery may be the most effective treatment for obese and morbidly obese individuals. By following the course of several men and women who undergo gastric reduction procedures, this program presents the complete process of surgical weight loss, from clinical assessment to post-operative follow-ups. Along with the case...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Campbell, T. Colin
Summary: This study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in 65 counties, representing 2,500 counties across rural China and Taiwan. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2005
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Summary: In the tradition of "The Truth About the Drug Companies" and "Silent Spring" two veteran environmental journalists expose how corporate America is poisoning the nation's children with toxic chemicals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.9298 SHASummary: What is it like to eat around the clock? At 457 pounds, Wally knows. And Tammy, at 67 pounds, has experienced both anorexia and bulimia-at the same time. This haunting program introduces eight ordinary people who tell, in a chillingly matter-of-fact way, about their life-scarring-and even severely life-threatening-experiences with body weight and self-image. Bouts with eating disorders are...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Antonio Biello wants to walk again. Jean-Pierre Allard wants his son to see how energetic he once was. And Vanessa Hull simply hopes not to be dead before 30. Three people of different worlds, yet inextricably linked to a condition that Dr. Nicholas Christou says is poised to spread more rapidly than smoking-morbid obesity. This clinical program follows the three as they each seek an answer in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Eating disorders are not just about food, but about the struggle with loss of emotional control. This program from The Doctor Is In examines the use of antidepressants and cognitive behavioral therapy to combat these dangerous illnesses. Russell Marx, M.D., of the eating disorders program at the Princeton Medical Center, and Marcia Herrin, Ed.D., M.P.H., R.D., of the Dartmouth College Health...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: "Join Rip Esselstyn, former Texas firefighter ... , as he teaches the White and Wali families the basics of a whole-food, plant-based diet. Step-by-step, Rip guides these families on how to take control of their own health through: undertaking a top-to-bottom patnry clean-out; showing them how to navigate the grocery store aisles to not get burned by misleading nutrition labels; [and] cooking...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monica Beach Media 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Nonfic EnSummary: Alicia, a 16-year-old, has battled anorexia since she was nine. Due to body dysmorphic disorder, Tim believes that his flat stomach is huge. A high school swimmer, Haley initially wanted breast augmentation to correct a size imbalance but then opted for enlargement. This program follows several case studies in order to highlight what can happen when the quest for physical perfection goes too...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With a 75 percent success rate in treating anorexia and bulimia, Stockholm's Karolinska Institute is in the vanguard of eating disorder therapy. This program follows patients through the Karolinska regimen as they relearn healthy eating behavior, gradually recognizing natural feelings of satiety with the help of a computerized biofeedback system. Closely observing the Institute's counseling...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Filmed in the U.K., this program sympathetically presents the stories of four young adults-two men, two women-who triumphed over bipolar disorder, chronic anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, clinical depression, and an eating disorder. Looking back on their lengthy ordeals, each person explains to viewers what it was like to slide into mental illness and how, with the help of others,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007