Now that summer is here and I have a bit of time away from the classroom, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time in my garden. I’ve also been catching up on some food films I’ve been meaning to review for a while. The first is Hungry for Change, released last year. Look for more over the next few weeks.
Hungry for Change offers a powerful critique of the diet industry, observing that most diets call on dieters to remove one component of a well-rounded diet. A better approach, they argue, is to consume a more natural diet. It’s a fairly straightforward argument rooted in biological and evolutionary human history. For millions of years, the film observers, our bodies have been programmed to consume and store as much fat and sugar as possible. But our diets were defined by low calorie, high nutrient content. In the developed world today…
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Dr. Bukar Ali USMAN, mni 