“Tapped” Vegetarian Producer Creates Movie On Childhood Obesity
Written by Vegetarian Star on April 30th, 2012 in Children, Directors and Producers, Film & TV, Food & Drink, Nutrition-Health-Fitness, Research + Science.
The producer behind Tapped, a film that examines the effects of the bottled water industry, Stephanie Soechtig, has teamed up with Katie Couric and producer of the environmental film, An Inconvenient Truth, Laurie David, to take a closer look at childhood obesity and its causes.
The Big Picture will follow children, aged 11-17, as they share their food experiences and weight issues through video diaries.
Soechtig grew up in a household where homemade and not processed food was emphasized, as her father owned and ran a German restaurant. After years of feeling “totally tortured” from bringing “homemade liverwurst sandwiches on dark German bread” to school every day, she decided to turn vegetarian at the age of 15.
Soechtig didn’t mention to The Hollywood Reporter if plant-based diets would be discussed as a solution for obesity in The Big Picture, but she has publicly promoted such fare on her Twitter account that regularly links to articles on food, health and food safety.
Epidemiologic studies suggest vegetarian diets are associated with a lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower prevalence of obesity in children. Compared to their meat eating peers, vegetarian children are leaner, and the gap between BMIs of vegetarian and non-vegetarian children becomes greater during adolescence.
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