Hungry for Change

Wow, it's crazy how there are 4 reviews that slam the movie, yet it's overall rating is still high.

Maybe it's because you have people like melinda2001 who thinks "Glutamate" is the "G" in ATGC. Try guanine, not glutamate.

While I believe any movie is open to criticism, even these "Food Matters" films, I think this production has been one of the most sane ones. Why?

Unlike the juicing, vegan, raw food, etc movies, this one was more balanced. One contributor even said, if you can do small steps like reducing red meat intake, it will be helpful.

The main message I took away was to try to shift away from the processed and more to the whole foods. What's wrong with that?

Remember, IMDb has a weighted rating system to filter out new people, weak reviewers, etc. This movie is still a solid 7. I suggest you watch it for yourself before you believe the conventional wisdom posted by others like melinda2001.

The movie is not to be taken as gospel. It offers solid and highly beneficial advice to altering a processed lifestyle in a manor you see fit by offering a variety of different options. You will either both benefit from good advice and utilize a new method(s) to improve your nutrition intake, or not. You will either be informed on information you knew not before (which can be followed by proper research), or not.

Shout-out to the other reviewer that caught the whole "glutamine being the "G" in ATCG" incorrect comment from someone blasting the film. Respect. If you have criticisms, I suggest doing plenty of research, not wikipediaing the information presented. Nutrition is a highly person-specific science and what works for some may not for others. You should gather ideas, test them, include the ones that make you feel better, healthier etc and don't follow the ones that don't work for you.

I don't understand why some people here keep on saying another infomercial. Really? You did not get the point at all? Just because the people in this documentary are authors selling books about health doesn't mean they are promoting their products. Where in the film did they promote it because I want to see.

The message is CRYSTAL-CLEAR. CHOOSE A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE. It's sad that some people fail to see it instead writing a negative review that this documentary gave them BS after 10 minutes. If this film judged the fat people, call them names, and blame their choice of food in an unspeakable terms then I will surely write a negative review. But none of it was delivered in this film.

I'm not going to buy a juicer. But after seeing this documentary participated by health experts and medical doctors, I now have a different approach to eating food. I choose healthy lifestyle because I do not want to get sick and pay for high health care costs. It is my choice.

I'll give it a 6 out of a 10, mainly because the jist of the movie is well intentioned. That being said however, the movie does have it's share of problems. I'd like to reiterate what others have said - it turns into a juicing commercial about halfway through. Juicing may have it's time and place, but as a regular diet it isn't a healthy thing to maintain.

My other problem with this move is the lack of data and facts about the "independent studies" they keep talking about. Sure, they present and bad-mouth the manufacturers studies all day long. But the supposed independent studies which counter all the manufacturers studies are talked about, but not presented or shown in any way. Where are they? Because of this, the movie at times feels like a story you hear from your buddy how they heard from so-and-so about this or that.

For example, the story about the Pilots being told by the "Pilot Association" that aspartame is to be avoided? Manufactured BS. While I don't doubt that something artificial is most likely bad for you, there hasn't been ANY formal statement to Pilots on the issue of aspartame. As a Pilot, I would know. I have never been told by nor read anything related to the matter. Neither has my wife, who is a Helli Pilot. We both looked at each other when that segment came on and said WTF to each other.

Even the so-called "Aspartame Consumer Safety Network" confirms that the FAA may know about it, but hasn't issued any statement about it. Thay also claim that organizations like AOPA and ALPA have been warning Pilots for years. This is also false. They have not and a simple goggle search under those two organization will prove it. Here is a link to the ACSN article I'm talking about: http://www.aspartamesafety.com/Article4.htm Again, overall decent flick meant to open your eyes on the dangers of processed food. It succeeds in this area, however many of the "facts" are presented in that fast-and-loose manner so commonly found online these days.

Recommended to watch, trust the jist of it, don't trust the facts presented 100%.

I'm going to put it like this. i love my fast food and fatty convenience packaged meals. fruit and veg, never touch them.

I was so inspired at one hour in, that i paused the video and ended up eating a bowl overloaded with raw veges and fruit.

through the beginning I did find it to be dis-interesting. and nearly turned it off. i'm just pleased i stuck it out.

the overall message is clear and the point does come across. at times some of the info does seem to be directive at putting down major corporations. and at times a little far fetched. but as i watched i did sift through an take away the vital points i see as worth. which have been of an unparalleled value to me.