In this age of search engines one can easily find hundreds of thousands of articles, forums and blogs about nutrition. However, making use of a limitless source of information isn’t as easy as it sounds. With so much misinformation out there, how do you know what you can trust? Where can you start?

A great way to find your starting point is by watching credible documentaries. Over the last decade there has been a barrage of documentaries that place the spotlight on various aspects of our food industry.

Have you ever thought about where the meat in your cheeseburger comes from? How about the tomato in your salad? Do you question the long term affects of consuming too much added sugar? If you find yourself wondering the answers to these questions then I highly encourage you to view these influential documentaries. Each documentary unveils eye opening footage, provides one-one interviews with multiple health professionals and undoubtedly motivates viewers to make healthier choices in their lives.

1. Forks Over Knives: The feature film’ Forks Over Knives’ examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.”

2.  Food Inc.: This documentary takes a look inside corporate America’s food industry.

3.  Hungry for Change: ‘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 craving more and more.

4. Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead:.100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. ‘ Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead’ is a documentary that follows the 60-day journey of Joe Cross across the United States as he follows a juice fast to regain his health under the care of Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Nutrition Research Foundation’s Director of Research.

5. Food Matters: ‘Food Matters’ features is a hard, fast paced look at our Nation’s current state of health. ‘Food Matters’ seeks to uncover the business of disease and at the same time explores the safe, cheap and effective use of nutrition and supplementation for preventing and often reversing the underlying causative aspects of the illness.