A free movie screening at the Randwick Community Centre of 'In Defense of Food' has been postponed until Sunday 3 July 2016 due to today's storm.

The event, which was scheduled to take place tonight Sunday 5 June 2016 from 6pm-8.30pm, will now be held at the same venue on Sunday 3 July 2016.

We apologise for any inconvenience. 

Anybody who has made a booking to attend the event will be contacted.

Background to the film

Best-selling author Michael Pollan starts In Defense of Food with a simple question: What should I eat to be healthy? The answer turns out to be much simpler than he imagined.

Today, the typical American diet includes lots of meat, white flour, sugar, and vegetable oils. It’s cheap, convenient, and has been processed to taste really good. But its effects on health are not so tasty, including alarming increases in obesity and type 2 diabetes.

To complicate matters, recommendations by “experts” about healthier ways of eating seem to change daily. Eat more protein and fewer carbs. Eat less meat. Consume more fiber. Drink less milk. Eggs are bad. Eggs are good. No wonder people are confused.

The film follows Pollan on a fascinating journey to discover the truth about food and health. His search for answers takes him from the plains of Tanzania, where one of the world’s last remaining tribes of hunter-gatherers still eats the way our ancestors did, to Loma Linda, California, where a group of Seventh-day Adventist vegetarians live longer than almost anyone else on earth, and eventually to Paris, where the French diet, rooted in culture and tradition, proves surprisingly healthy. Along the way he reveals how a combination of flawed nutrition science and deceptive marketing practices have encouraged us to replace real food with scientifically engineered “edible food-like substances.”

In Defense of Food shares the remarkably simple seven-word guide to healthy eating that Pollan discovered on his quest: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. It’s an eloquent reflection of the power of common sense and old-fashioned wisdom. And it frees us to rediscover the pleasures of eating while at the same time avoiding the chronic diseases that so often stem from the modern diet.

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In Defense of Food - Trailer from Kikim Media on Vimeo.