| Title: | Film Screening: Diet: A Look at Processed Food, Nutrition, and Obesity in the 20th Century |
| Date/Time: | 11/7/2012 12:00 - 1:00 pm
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| Registration: | 14 seats available
(Max. Class Size = 25) |
| Building: | Hunton Student Center TML Learning Center, Room 209 |
| Cost: | $0
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| Sponsor: | VCU Libraries |
| Audience: |
VCU Students, Faculty and Staff Only
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| Category: | Audio/Video |
| Description: | Attitudes about the industrialization of food have changed greatly over the past several decades. What used to be considered a scientific miracle now seems like a horrific joke: piglets being reared in incubators that look like tiny iron lungs; fish raised in tanks of runoff water -- and growing at a remarkable rate! -- from a nuclear power plant. These scenarios and more are presented in Diet as it traces the rise and fall of processed food, from promising cure for malnourishment to eventually being linked to obesity, heart disease, and cancer.
Participants are welcome to bring their lunch.
Registration is encouraged. Walk-ins are welcome. |
| Contact: | Thelma Mack 804-828-0017 mackta@vcu.edu |
