Diabetes and obesity are a major problem for people of all ages in the United States. This film follows a young man as he tries to fight against his regional culture and traditional eating habits in order to get healthy. It also looks at how food cultures and lifestyle habits differ across American, most specifically in Colorado and Indiana. What can we do to help reverse this problem?—Anonymous
Diabetes has become a cultural problem across America, but particularly in the Midwest and Southern regions. For my film, I explored these two areas and compared the food and exercise culture to one of the healthier regions, the West. Having moved from Indiana to Colorado, I used my own personal experiences to analyze why people in the Midwest struggle with diabetes and obesity at such a higher rate than those nearer to the Pacific Ocean. Through a series of interviews with close friends and observational analysis of each state, I came to learn something very important about health: our food culture is embedded and encouraged by the people that surround us, and changing the way we behave is more than just being taught healthy activities. People can change, but unfortunately I believe the problem is going to have to get worse before America takes itseriously enough to fix it.
