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When George C. Stoney was a boy delivering newspapers, he was curious about the black women with black satchels he would spot occasionally on the streets of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, before dawn. Later he learned these early risers were midwives. This is a training film about midwifery which transcends the form. It was selected by the Library of Congress for placement on the National Film Registry in 2002 as "a culturally, historically and artistically...
3) Anticancer
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Dr. David Servan-Schreiber addresses steps that can be taken to prevent or fight cancer.
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From the picturesque valleys of Wales to the stunning Italian island of Sardinia, Welsh-Italian cook Michela Chiappa visits 100-year-olds, longevity experts, and her own long-lived family in order to unravel the secrets of their success. It's a warm and enchanting journey that mixes food, lifestyle, and science in order to come up with a surprising recipe for a long and healthy life that any one of us could achieve.
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"Go behind the scenes and watch as Mark Hyman, M.D. explains how the latest research reveals that your mood problems, memory problems and trouble focusing ... even your depression, anxiety, ADD, autism and Alzheimer's are NOT all in your head. The solution to these problems lie inside your BODY. By fixing your body FIRST, you will awaken your body's natural intelligence allowing it to automatically heal your brain ... all by rebalancing the 7 core...
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Dr. Neal D. Barnard teaches how to establish a new style of eating which engages four food groups: vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes. This approach to managing diabetes is based on lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, shedding unwanted pounds, and improving how your body responds to insulin.
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The story of how one man, Max Gerson, M.D. developed a nutritional healing treatment. He discovered how to restore the body's ability to heal cancer and most degenerative diseases. Learn of his life story and see a few of the long-term cured "incurable" cancer patients.
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This chronicles what director Lathe Poland learned after he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. He sought to find out why he got sick, because he didn't fit the classic picture of an adult onset diabetes sufferer. He quickly learned that much of what he knew about healthy eating was based on myths or fifty-year-old science. He searches out why Americas modern food culture is killing us. The upside? There is a lot that can be done!
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A 15 year-old boy goes on a mission to determine if what Dr. Max Gerson wrote in his controversial book is a legitimate alternative cure for cancer. After numerous interviews with doctors, skeptics, members of Gerson's family, and cancer patients, it became abundantly clear that a cure for virtually all cancers and chronic diseases does exist, and it has existed for over 80 years.
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Dr. Lustig explains that the problem is the quality and not the quantity of food people eat. The real culprit is processed food, loaded with added sugar and stripped of its natural fiber and nutrients. He is leading the groundswell to expose the high sugar content in processed food, and the dangers and costs to our health.
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Host Kara Korhonen--a registered dietitian and mom--answers prenatal food and nutrition questions. Her approach to education makes learning fun and entertaining. She discusses weight gain, critical nutrients for each trimester, foods to limit or avoid, physical activity, and more! Special features include: healthy eating guide, cooking demonstrations, nutritition by trimester, bite-size humor-- Publisher info.
19) The Donner Party
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A group of people, nicknamed 'Forlorn Hope,' find themselves lost, freezing, and without any source of food when they are steered off course in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. With the threat of death and imminent starvation hanging over their heads, they are forced to sacrifice one another as a source of nourishment. Surviving only on the flesh of the fallen members of their party, the remaining travelers must weigh their consciences against their will...
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