Product Details

• Actors: Jamie Oliver, Joe Cross, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Alejandro Junger
• Directors: James Colquhoun, Laurentine Ten Bosch, Carlo Ledesma
• Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: DOCURAMA
• DVD Release Date: October 2, 2012
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (127 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B008MIYKR6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,937 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #22 in Movies & TV > DVD > Special Interests

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This inspiring film has the power to transform your health! --Tony Robbins

Product Description

Product Description

From the creators of the best-selling documentary Food Matters comes another hard-hitting film certain to rock your world. HUNGRY FOR CHANGE exposes shocking secrets the diet, weight loss and food industry don't want you to know about: deceptive strategies designed to keep you coming back for more. Find out what's keeping you from having the body and health you deserve and how to escape the diet trap forever. Featuring interviews with bestselling health authors and leading medical experts plus real-life transformational stories with people who know what it's like to be sick and overweight.

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Better Living Through Healthy Choices: Another Impactful Expose About The Food We Eat October 5, 2012

By K. Harris HALL OF FAMETOP 10 REVIEWER

Format:DVD

The new documentary "Hungry For Change" covers a familiar topic, but repackages the information in a nice user-friendly way. In all honesty, I have now seen about a dozen different films that challenge the status quo and seek to enlighten the masses about the destructive nature of careless eating. But despite what seems like a patently obvious message, we (as consumers) still choose to look the other way. As a society, we have branded convenience as more important than health and big business has taken advantage of this decision in some pretty nefarious ways. But like many, while I realize my faults, I still perpetuate the problem in my own lifestyle. In truth, "Hungry for Change" really doesn't present anything I haven't seen before--but I guess a caustic reminder is appropriate every once in a while! And if you have never given your food choices much thought, I'd definitely say this is worth a look.

There are a lot of topics covered in this brief ninety minute presentation. For me, the film starts on incredibly strong ground as it deals directly with concerns of diet and nutrition. The section on dieting is both amusing and disturbing, and the criticisms presented about food manufacturers, distributors, and regulators hit the target mercilessly. Just the facts about so-called fat-free products should be shown to every household in the world that thinks it's making smarter choices! Sugar, of course, takes an expected (and warranted) beating by the experts. We even see Jamie Oliver (flavored milk's biggest opponent) at the 2010 TED conference. But if you follow this educational movement, you'll recognize many of this movie's participants (it is by the makers of Food Matters)....

The movie strays a bit from its central themes with discussions on skin products and there's even an endorsement for positive visualization. It's as if the makers wanted to stuff so much material into the movie, it started to lose a bit of impact for me. There is also an ongoing, but manufactured, dramatic arc that I found completely unnecessary. Like a cheesy educational film, we watch a fictional woman at various points throughout the movie as she morphs from a shy frump to a confident woman. It's a corny bit of filmmaking that detracted from the movie's essential themes. But still, these are small gripes. The important message in "Hungry for Change" should be seen and heard. But at 4 stars, I'm judging the movie and not the primary message. Beyond the movie itself, the DVD boasts almost a couple more hours of additional footage and interviews. KGHarris, 10/12. Read more ›

30 of 34 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Hate to disagree but... October 9, 2012

By Ariel Riviello

Format:DVD

I loved "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead" and saw an add for this movie on the JointheReboot website. I was expecting something more like that. I don't disagree with the ideas discussed here, I just didn't like the format. A lot of the clips were repetitive, there were only minor allusions to some of the speakers' personal stories - which sounded like they would have been some of the most compelling parts. I also didn't find the little vignettes of the diet-soda chugging lady necessary, it was a cheesy and distracting story telling device. I wanted to see more personal stories and more specifics on healthy eating and juicing and whatnot. Disappointed.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Disjointed, Meandering December 26, 2012

By Jiang Xueqin

Format:DVD

After watching it I'm not entirely sure what "Hungry for Change" is about. It's not entirely about the toxic malpractices of the food industry, and it's not entirely about the origins and consequences of unhealthy eating. "Hungry for Change" just seems to parade a bunch of New York Times-bestselling authors on camera spieling out their nutrition/healthy living mantras and jargon: "Just love yourself!"

What's also distracting about the documentary is how it has embedded a dramatic storyline to weave together the self-promoting authors: a middle-aged woman who is infatuated with one of her co-workers but never musters the courage to tell him so because she hates her body.

I highly recommend "Food Inc" as a documentary that highlights well what's wrong with the food industry.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the time and $ October 5, 2012

By fauxartist

Format:DVD

I am currently a student studying to become a CHHC, (health coach) and have seen several movies, including from some of the people in this movie. I loved that all the information was so neatly packaged in a line...why did this happen, how can we change it and what can we expect...I loved it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Conflicted about this March 24, 2013

By J. Ford

Format:Amazon Instant Video

I'm conflicted about this a bit. The first half of this documentary seemed fairly solid, but the latter half went off the rails a bit for me. This documentary somehow featured a subplot about some woman who felt chubby (but didn't appear so, to me) and insecure, until she started juicing vegetables. The weirdest point was easily when this woman fired up her iPad to watch the documentary I was already watching. I giggled a little bit, thinking she was going to be pretty pissed when she got to the part where they'd been filming her without her knowledge.

I thought it was interesting that the documentary mentioned the addictive properties of modern, processed food. More focus on that probably could have made this an awesome documentary, but much of this was glossed over. Only later in the film do we find out that the people we've been hearing from aren't experts per se, but have a definite stake in getting people to buy their particular books or buy their particular juicer. OF COURSE the juicer guy thinks everyone should start pulping local flora and drinking it. OF COURSE the self-help author thinks people should self-help themselves to one or two of her books.

I did laugh when the "scary list of bad chemicals" ran past the screen as they were going on about natural, natural, natural. I recognized two of the scary chemicals as extract from orange peels (limonene and linalool).

I guess I was looking for something a bit more hard-nosed about exactly what bad food does that is so bad, and why. This isn't that documentary. But it has some worthwhile parts, at first. Watch the first half, and then go about your day.