Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat
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Description
Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat by Lathe Poland and Eric Carlsen starts from Poland’s own diabetes diagnosis and questions how Americans came to fear some foods and normalize others in everyday eating patterns. Rather than staying at the level of diet slogans, it traces the mix of science, marketing, policy, and habit that shaped modern eating in the United States. The result is less a simple anti-carb argument than a broader look at confusion around food, chronic illness, portion size, and metabolic health.
Director / Filmmaker
Lathe Poland
About the Director / Filmmaker
Lathe Poland, writer, producer, director, and editor, comes out of commercial video production rather than a large documentary canon. On his official site he traces more than two decades of work across camera operation, editing, cinematography, producing, and marketing content, with Lathe Poland Productions and The Scene Lab as key ventures. Carb-Loaded sits within that broader hands-on practice, which is especially rooted in image-making, post-production, and stock-footage work.
Lathe Poland, writer, producer, director, and editor, comes out of commercial video production rather than a large documentary canon. On his official site he traces more than two decades of work across camera operation, editing, cinematography, producing, and marketing content, with Lathe Poland Productions and The Scene Lab as key ventures. Carb-Loaded sits within that broader hands-on practice, which is especially rooted in image-making, post-production, and stock-footage work.
Topic
Nutrition, Metabolic Health, Chronic Illnesses
Who It’s Best For
Anyone sorting through the carbohydrate debate after years of standard diet advice will find the clearest entry point here. It also works for viewers asking why obesity and diabetes arguments keep circling back to insulin, processed food, and official guidance.
Production Company / Studio
The Scene Lab, LLC
Approach
A diagnosis-driven investigation anchors the film, as personal illness opens into a broader challenge to carbohydrate-heavy dietary orthodoxy. Contrarian experts and historical reinterpretation shape a revisionist case aimed at mainstream nutrition guidance.
Duration
74 Minutes
Year
2014
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