| View Larger Image | Fat Head | DVDStarring: Tom Naughton
Directed By: Tom Naughton
| List Price: | $19.98 | | Price: | $17.49 | | You Save: | $2.49 (12%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 104 minutes | | Format: | Color, DVD, NTSC | | Studio: | Morningstar Entertainment | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | February 03, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 13,160th |
|
FEATURES | |
EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Have you seen the news stories about the obesity epidemic? Did you see Super Size Me ? Then guess what ... You've been fed a load of bologna. Comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton replies to the Super Size Me crowd by losing weight on a fat-laden fast-food diet including plenty of double quarter-pounders and fried chicken while demonstrating that nearly everything we've been told about obesity and healthy eating is wrong. Fat Head features humorous animations as well as informative interviews with doctors, nutritionists, and political scientists. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 29 reviews)
|
Funny AND informative! by Robert T. Muir (LAKEWOOD, WA USA)  5 Stars
November 30, 2009
While it's not exactly Oscar caliber work, I thought the documentary was very humerous and VERY informative! Personally, I would have picked a better title and cover picture. Both are a little off-puting for folks who aren't aware of the movie's content.
| |
Great Job by Kathy Patel (Chicago) 5 Stars
October 18, 2009
What a wonderful combination of health giving information and entertainment. Everyone should know about this
| |
Low-Carb Has A Face by monasmee (Southwest, United States) 5 Stars
September 30, 2009
Up until now, low-carb information has been an obscure concept at best, scattered away in dry, challenging textbooks. Alas, one had to hunt through various sources, quite often in frustration, in attempts to understand what this dietary mystery was all about.
What a relief that those confusing days are over. Fat Head not only puts-it-all-together, this enlightening film makes the learning process fun! As a result, the low-carb lifestyle now has a needed face, and a funny one at that. Tom Naughton has become the new poster boy on a dietary subject that truly deserves closer attention, whether it be from the average Joe, or the medical profession. There was so much valuable information here, I had to watch the film over and over again, quite often in runaway laughter.
If you really care about health, check this film out, and then tell your family and friends.
| |
Fun, funny and TRUE! by Pook La Roux 5 Stars
September 29, 2009
I love this movie. I love to show this movie to people who are skeptical of the way I choose to eat. It is an excellent rebuttal to Spurlock's "Supersize Me" -- and the laugh out loud funny that Tom Naughton provides all throughout doesn't obscure the facts he presents. The additional footage is also a treat. Even if you significantly disagree with the low-carb movement, you'll enjoy this documentary. You can't dispute the science and you'll be interested in the politics. Highly recommended!
| |
Fat Head is a fun watch, but his logic is no better than those he criticizes. by E. O'Neill (Wisconsin USA)  3 Stars
August 11, 2009
I just finished Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage) by Gary Taubes and was excited to find some other resources on the matter. I found this movie and decided to give it a try. It had some ups and downs. I wasn't thrilled, but it was worth seeing. However, I would highly suggest Taubes' book.
Pros:
-Naughton is a comedian, and definitely makes an entertaining flick.
-I think, nutritionally, he's on the right track. I think it's good for the people to be exposed to the science that goes against the grain. In this case, the grain has been going in the wrong direction for 40 years.
Cons:
-Naughton is apparently unabashedly libertarian. Using Reason magazine editors for such a large portion of your information is distracting at best. Libertarians tend to oversimplify things to make the discourse seem obviously in their favor. That's about all they seem to do well.
-I was somewhat shocked by the racism that was apparent in the movie. Naughton comes out and says African-American's and Mexicans are genetically disposed to being overweight. There is absolutely no scientific evidence for this, and it wouldn't surprise me if he knew it. Both groups are traditionally poorer, and therefore tend to consume more refined carbs because they are less expensive. This proves his point, so I'm unsure why he chose the route he did. Perhaps he didn't do much homework (or thinking) - I'm not sure which is worse.
-They continually use the "fat people are overweight because they overeat" non-sense. In Taubes' book, he explicitly spends time demonstrating this to be meaningless (actually, a tautology). Obviously if people are overweight they overeat. This tells us as much as saying an alcoholic drinks too much.
All in all I would probably suggest people see it, but keep in mind that he's no better than Morgan Spurlock (or anyone else that he criticizes) for that matter.
| |
SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Primal Body-Primal Mind: Empower Your Total Health The Way Evolution Intended (...And Didn't)
by Nora Teresa Gedgaudas (Author)
In this unique ground breaking and enlightening book, Nora Gedgaudas provides a sane departure from conventional thinking about nutrition as promoted in the media and by conventional diet pundits. You will at last come to truly understand the basic principles of how your body and brain function based on both fundamental human physiology and the ancient selective pressures that shaped it. You'll also come to appreciate how these same selective pressures came to establish our most basic...
| 
| The 6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle: The Simple Plan to Flatten Your Belly Fast!
by Michael R. Eades (Author), Mary Dan Eades (Author)
Why is it that even though we might maintain our high school weight, few of us maintain our high school belt size?
In your twenties and thirties, the layers of fat on top of your abs were the problem–but once you reach middle-age, the enemy shifts. The 6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle is the first book to deal specifically with the issues we face in the next stage of life, providing a plan for eliminating the unhealthy fat that accumulates around the organs–visceral fat–that...
| 
| The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
by Lierre Keith (Author)
Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes the destructive history of agriculture—causing the devastation of prairies and forests, driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the topsoil—and asserts that, in order to save the planet, food must come from within living communities. In order for this to happen, the argument champions eating locally and sustainably and encourages those with the resources to grow...
| 
| Trick And Treat - how 'healthy eating' is making us ill
by Barry Groves (Author)
Few people have 'old age' as a cause of death on their death certificate.Today, we die of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, osteoporosis, diabetes - And we accept these conditions as normal causes of death.They aren't - and neither is the ill-health, pain and discomfort that make our later years a misery. In this controversial, evidence-based account of how and why the health-care establishment has got the concept of 'healthy eating' so wrong, Barry Groves shows us how to take charge of our...
| 
| Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage)
by Gary Taubes (Author)
For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning science writer...
|
|
|
