Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Monday, 29 August 2011

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

  This is a video from veoh.com. You will need to install their free  Veoh Web Player to view the whole video. I think it is well worth an install as they have some videos you wont find anywhere else :)

An inspirational documentary following Joe Cross as he embarks on a journey to regain his health. At the beginning Joe is overweight and suffering from an autoimmune disease, by the end he has lost weight, is full of energy with no symptoms of his autoimmune disease and off medication...

Sunday, 7 March 2010

Everything You Need to Know About the Brain

"A Discovery Channel Documentary. Learn how people block-out extreme pain with their thoughts, see what's different about a criminal's brain and understand why they say the human race is getting smarter. Meet the Rainman and learn what gives savants like him their extraordinary skills. You'll see why some patients are kept awake during brain surgery...

Friday, 26 February 2010

The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes

This Channel 5 documentary is about 14 year old Ben Underwood who has been totally blind since the age of 3 when he lost his eyes to cancer. He has taught himself to see with echo location. He still manages to play basket ball, roller blading and many other activities with this amazing talent of echo location...

Friday, 1 January 2010

Horizon: Do I Drink Too Much?



"Alcohol is by far the most widely used drug - and a dangerous one at that. So why are so many of us drinking over the recommended limits?
Why does alcohol have such a powerful grip on us? How much of our relationship with this drug is written in our genes? What are the real dangers of our children drinking too young?

Tuesday, 22 December 2009

Mindshock: Can the Heart Think?

This is a video from veoh.com. You will need to install their free  Veoh Web Player to view the whole video. I think it is well worth an install as they have some videos you wont find anywhere else :)

"A heart transplant is a life changing event... but for a few it brings much more... Is it possible that a new heart could bring with it the memories of a donor?

Thursday, 17 December 2009

Food Matters


""Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine, And Thy Medicine Be Thy Food." - Hippocrates That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in this brave new documentary film brought to you by Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch. 'Food Matters' is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies. Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient sparse foods is definitely not helping the situation...

Monday, 14 December 2009

Super High Me


"In order to find out the true effects of marijuana on the human body, comedian Doug Benson documents his experience avoiding pot for 30 days and then consuming massive amounts for 30 days. This documentary also examines the debate over medical marijuana use." - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111833/

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Horizon: How Does Your Memory Work?


"Aired: March 25, 2008 on BBC2 You might think that your memory is there to help you remember facts, such as birthdays or shopping lists. If so, you would be very wrong. The ability to travel back in time in your mind is, perhaps, your most remarkable ability, and develops over your lifespan. Horizon takes viewers on an extraordinary journey into the human memory...

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Supersize Me

A documentary about a guy who eats nothing but Mcdonalds for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 30 days to see how it affects his health. Will you fancy a big mac after this?