These two videos feature extended excerpts of Michael Pollan's January 27th, 2010 appearance on Oprah, including some discussion of the documentary Food, Inc., his new book, Food Rules, and America's need for a food revolution.

If you hear me say it once, you will probably hear me say it a hundred times:  Americans are overfed and undernourished!  This is one reason that "portion control" is not the answer to the obesity epidemic--we are virtually starving to death for proper food as it is!  No, we need not deprive ourselves of food, per se, we need only begin to eat differently!  The solution is expressed simply and elegantly in Dr. Joel Fuhrman's health equation:  H = N/C , where H = Health, N = Nutrients, and C = Calories.  

For some reason, people love to brag to me about eating olive oil--this seems to apply to everyone, but especially to certain people who are overweight and suffering from a variety of chronic ailments.  "I cook with olive oil", they proudly inform me, "it's the only oil I use!"  Others, who are just learning about the benefits of a predominantly whole-foods, plant-based diet, are enthusiastic about recipes that require olive oil.   As this presentation by Jeff Novick makes clear, olive oil is not health food! 

This series of reports by Peter Jennings anticipate many of the issues raised by several newer, higher-profile films on food and health in America.  These are a must see for anyone interested the effects of corporate marketing and goverment policies on public health--on your health and my health!

Click the article title, above, or "Read More," below, to see the other videos in this excellent series of reports!

According to author, filmmaker, and medical researcher, Mike Anderson, cancer can be prevented and reversed through diet and lifestyle.  The fundamentals of that diet and lifestyle and the biggest cause of most disease, disabilities and death in the U.S. today are, respectively, the subjects of his first book, The RAVE Diet & Life Style, and of his award winning film, Eating, which often accompanies it.  In those works, he focuses on the debilitating effects of the Standard American Diet in contrast to the healing properties of a natural foods diet--properties which are largely unknown or ignored by both the medical establishment and the American public.  In his new book and DVD, Healing Cancer From Inside Out, Mike Anderson continues to promote his natural foods diet, while at the same time offering a critical assessment of conventional cancer treatments and a withering critique of the medical establishment that promotes them.