Roco, Hanz B.

BSN 201- Diet and Nutrition Therapy

5/6/2020
Reflection paper on The Gamechangers and Supersize Me Movies
1. What are your reactions, insights, learning highlights and realizations about the two
movies? Which movie strikes you the most?
Both movies have a similar goal, which is to show the audience that your diet or eating habits
affects your lifestyle and your whole well-being, physical, emotional, even your interpersonal
relationships as well can change.
I have never known that full on plant-based diet could fuel your body and even give you
more nutrients than what is found in meat, the saying “Eat like a vegan” is more of a
motivational quoatation rather than an insult after I watched these movies. I felt awful and
suddened when I realized that people treat food as a drug rather than as a positive source to
maintain your body more healthier and energetic. Food should not be the “emotional comfort” a
person needs, food should not be too much for an individual to intake, it should be just right. As
seen on Supersize Me, smoking, and doing drugs is an obvious bad addiction, but being addicted
to food is just as bad as smoking or doing drugs, and it is something to be aware of and
SHOULD NOT be normalized in this generation.
The movie that strike and held my attention the most is The Gamechangers, it changed my
perspective about how important I should watch the foods that enters my body considered that I
adored eating chicken all throughout my life then I saw that it affects your blood flow, I have
noted what the speaker said in the film “When you eat animal products, you start to form plaques
in the coronary arteries, which limits the blood flow of arteries”, this may result to heart attacks
and I do not want that to happen to me or any members of my family, so it is best to say that I
became conscious of what I eat and what will I eat just by watching this movie.

2. Which evidence-based food guidelines, principles (we have discussed) and

recommendations align with the movies? Can you relate our previous lessons with
the movies?
Cholesterol is not bad when eaten right, and when consumed by eating the right amount and
right type of food, for example, using vegetable oils and consuming beans. Next, consuming
fatty foods (especially too much meat) may lead to prostate, breast, colon cancer, type 2 diabetes,
and a lot more diseases. Lastly, I also recall on our lessons that animal-based diet, or consuming
meat does not give you the adequate amount of protein and energy needed within a day, it also
makes you sleepy and tired, so instead of being more focused, a person is more deprived even
though his stomach is full.

3. Which Filipino culture or values in eating is similar or different from the movies?
There are certain similarities of the ones seen in the movie and in Filipino culture in eating,
like, the love for fast-food restaurants, the belief that meat is the number one source of protein,
that cholesterol is bad. A lot of Filipinos are not adding vegetables as part of their main diet, and
Filipinos enjoy Jollibee as much as the Americans adore McDonalds, which eventually became
part of their culture.
The differences are, Americans eat almost fast-food daily, and it is part of the culture of
Filipinos that they love home cooked meals more than fast-foods and enjoy eating together in
their houses rather than going out. Filipinos eat vegetables yet not in an accurate amount as seen
in the Gamechangers, and there are few Filipinos that are vegan.

4. How will the movies change the way you provide safe, quality and professional
nutrition and diet therapy interventions to your future clients?
Based on the movies, they started by showing what most of the people in their country are
consuming daily, and both showed how drastic it is when the body does not have the right
nutrients it needs. Gamechangers also showed athletes that have been very successful because of
the healthy diet they have, a plant-based one. Supersize Me presented the effects of consuming
fatty foods, and visual aids like animation to properly understand the effects of fatty foods in our
body. Both movies presented data, statistics and facts, even results within an hour of watching.
As a nurse, the proper interventions I’ll do are to provide education (health teaching) first
for the clients as I have noticed that lack of education is the result why people are not focused
and serious about their diet. Second, provide visual aids and facts that will see to it that they
fully understand the effects of different kinds of foods that they consume in their body. Lastly, I
will not force them to change, but what will I do is breakdown their perspective on foods, make
the clients realize how a healthy diet will make them feel a lot better, feel more energetic, healed
and live longer and active by being an example myself, I’ll provide them information on how
plant-based, healthy diet changed my life. Clients need a role model, discipline and motivation,
as a nurse, providing safe, quality and professional nutrition will start on how you approach
clients, how will you change them by following evidenced based interventions and being there
for them all throughout their changes, seeing their outcome.
5. Utilizing everything you have learned and the lessons from the movies, if you are
going to be given 10 minutes to talk about your realizations in front of the national
TV, what 5 sentences will be the most vital to say in a speech to change how
Filipinos eat?
- Foods are not meant to fuel up your cravings, foods are meant to fuel up your
physical and mental well-being, consume wisely.
- If living longer and healthier is your goal, start immediately before your body gives
up on you.
- Train your mind and start disciplining yourself for a healthier version of you or else
you won’t be around to see your family and friends.
- Your body is not a trashcan, stop putting junk into it and start consuming vegetables.
- It is not ideal to be sick just because you cannot control your eating habits, let go of
the fast-food and start loving healthy foods.