I was fully committed to watching the rest of Weight of the Nation despite my disappointment with the first two episodes. This turned out to be a good thing, as episodes 3 and 4 are much stronger than episodes 1 and 2.
Episode 3 — Children in Crisis — looks at what’s happening to the kids. And it ain’t pretty.
Episode 4 — Challenges — starts off weak with a rehashing of obesity’s link to America’s lifestyle diseases. But it takes a turn in a better direction with a long look at evolutionary biology and the role that our ancestral past plays in terms of our eating behavior. It then spends a chunk of time looking at the problem with our current agricultural policy and specifically the subsidies that make corn and soy such profitable crops.
Weight Maven is written by Beth Mazur. Beth believes that obesity is more symptom than cause and that the real problem is our Western diet -- especially sugar, refined grains, and industrial oils. Beth writes about nutrition, ancestral health & food policy. And cats!
