Health & Wellness

Your Weekend Documentary: ‘Super Size Me’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 19, 2008 As Sharon Waxman points out in her WaxWord blog, a broader range of documentary films is now hitting the Web in toto thanks to Snagfilms.com, taking advantage of the Internet's distribution potential to help boost interest in documentaries. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Kids Are Fat People Too

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Jul 10, 2008 One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you soon will control your cholesterol. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Home-Grown Politics

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Jul 3, 2008 The appeal of kitchen gardens -- food you grow for the table -- has been increasing pretty steadily. But this year, a harmonic or maybe disharmonic convergence of factors led to a giant leap in the number of grow-it-yourselfers. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘A Walk to Beautiful’

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2008 PBS has made the film "A Walk to Beautiful" available online. It's the extraordinary story of women who suffer for years from a preventable and treatable injury simply because they are poor. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

You Are More Than What You Eat

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Feb 14, 2008 Remember when eating was an art, not a science? Remember when food wasn't medicine? Remember when food didn't need to be defended? Remember the good old days?. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Michael Moore and Stephen Colbert, Strange Bedfellows

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2007 You knew it was only a matter of time before the Michael Moore "SiCKO" publicity train rumbled into Colbert Station. In this clip, Stephen Colbert faces off with the dogged documentarian (via "satellite," thanks to the faux host's Blitzer-esque distancing technique) about the American healthcare system, only to discover that he and Moore share at least one thing: a pronounced dislike of CNN. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Straight Talk From Moore on Olbermann’s ‘Countdown’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 14, 2007 Keith Olbermann and Michael Moore move the "SiCKO" discussion into the meaningful hows and whens of fixing the system by shooting past the CNN media controversy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Smackdown: Moore vs. Gupta on ‘Larry King Live’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2007 Larry King capitalized on the heated showdown between Michael Moore and CNN's "The Situation Room" by conducting a rematch between Moore and Dr. Sanjay Gupta on his show Tuesday night. Moore, when he appeared on "Situation Room" earlier this week, denounced host Wolf Blitzer and reporter Gupta. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Michael Moore Rips Into CNN’s Wolf Blitzer

Staff / Truthdig Jul 10, 2007 "SiCKO" director Michael Moore opens up a can of whoop-ass on CNN's "The Situation Room" (our sincerest apologies to those with delicate sensibilities, but there's just no other way to put it), giving host Wolf Blitzer and resident MD/one-time "embedded journalist" Dr. Sanjay Gupta quite a dressing-down in a must-see live TV moment. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Outsource Your Parenting Duties

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2007 This fake news report from The Onion envisions a solution for busy, cost-conscious parents: Just ship your kids overseas and get day care for pennies on the dollar. There's something unnaturally cute and funny about the mom in this clip preparing her child for shipment. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Moore and Maher on ‘SiCKO’

Staff / Truthdig Jun 30, 2007 Back on May 25th, Michael Moore joined "Real Time" host Bill Maher to chat about his latest, "SiCKO," which Maher called "amazing" and "your best yet." In case you missed it or you just can't get enough of the all-American documentarian on this "SiCKO" Friday, check it out. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Watch ‘Sicko’ and Call Your Congressman in the Morning

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Jun 28, 2007 The rudimentary equation of the health insurance industry is that to make a profit, it must take in more money than it pays out in claims. This is why the public, as distinct from the political class, will intuitively understand and likely appreciate Michael Moore's new film, "Sicko." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )