Health Education: Exercise & Nutrition Tips
Recommended Reading, Videos and Web Sites and Articles.
Below are many interesting videos, web sites, books and articles that will enlighten your mind and help maintain health and vitality for you, your community and the world. Enjoy!
~ Ramin Farsad, M.D.
King Corn – Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat–and how we farm.
Fast Food Nation – Inspired by the incendiary bestseller that exposed the hidden facts behind America’s fast food industry comes a powerful drama that takes an eye-opening journey into the dark heart of the All-American meal. Richard Linklater’s FAST FOOD NATION traces the birth of an everyday, ordinary burger through a chain of riveting, interlocked human stories – from a hopeful, young immigrant couple who cross the border to work in a perilous meat-packing plant, to a teen clerk who dreams of life beyond the counter; to the corporate marketing whiz who is shocked to discover that his latest burger invention – “The Big One” – is literally full of manure. As the film traverses from pristine barbeque smoke labs to the volatile U.S.-Mexican border, it unveils a provocative portrait of all the yearning, ambition, corruption and hope that lies inside what America is biting into.
Super Size Me – Why are Americans so fat? Two words: fast food. What would happen if you ate nothing but fast food for an entire month? Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock does just that and embarks on the most perilous journey of his life. The rules? For 30 days he can’t eat or drink anything that isn’t on McDonald’s menu; he must wolf three squares a day; he must consume everything on the menu at least once and supersize his meal if asked. Spurlock treks across the country interviewing a host of experts on fast food and an equal number of regular folk while chowing down at the Golden Arches. Spurlock’s grueling drive-through diet spirals him into a physical and emotional metamorphosis that will make you think twice about picking up another Big Mac.
The Living Matrix – The Science of Healing – Our film, The Living Matrix – The Science of Healing, uncovers new ideas about the intricate web of factors that determine our health. We talk with a group of dedicated scientists, psychologists, bioenergetic researchers and holistic practitioners who are finding healing potential in new places. And energetic information-based medicine looks particularly powerful.
- Mayo Clinic
- The Center for Food Safety
- San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project
- Slow Food San Diego
- The Long Now Foundation
- The Simple Living Network
- New Urbanism
- Work to Live
- Center for Screen-Time Awareness
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- Virtual Age Calculator
- Naked Cafe
- North American Academy of Energy Medicine
- Institute of Noetic Sciences
- Institute of HeartMath
- Fooducate – Fooducate empowers you to achieve your diet, health, and fitness goals.
- 7 Minute Workout App – The Workout App That Helps You Make Every Minute Count!
- MyFitnessPal – Take control of your goals. Track calories, break down ingredients, and log activities with MyFitnessPal.