Facing the Fat (2009)
- Directed by
- Kenny Saylors
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 06m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 4.7 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A documentary where a filmmaker who is overweight undergoes a 55 day water fast under medical supervision. It looks at the health crisis of obesity in modern culture and questions whether extreme fasting can heal the body.
intimateeducationalsoberingcontemplativepersonaleye-openingrawearnest
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- Food Matters (2008)
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- I Was a Ninety-pound Weakling (1959)
- Hunger (2009)
- Why Are Thin People Not Fat? (2009)
- L'obésité est-elle une fatalité ? (2009)
- Super Size Me (2004)
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