Film Discussion Guides
Each guide below provides you with background information, tools and sample prompts to help you lead effective and engaging discussions.
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Each guide offers a road map to a succesful film screening.
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Consequences Discussion Guide
The first film in The Weight of the Nation series, Consequences, examines the scope of the obesity epidemic and explores the serious health consequences of being overweight or obese.
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Choices Discussion Guide
There are things each of us can do to live healthier lives and to attain and maintain a healthy weight. This is why we decided to call the second film in The Weight of the Nation series Choices. The film will help you lead any group interested in achieving better health in the right direction.
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Children in Crisis Discussion Guide
If you believe your audience would benefit from learning more about the real risks their children face from carrying too much weight, Children in Crisis can give them the tools they need to help their kids lead healthier lives.
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Challenges Discussion Guide
The fourth and last film in The Weight of the Nation series is Challenges. It examines the origins and severity of the obesity epidemic, the major driving forces causing the epidemic, and opportunities for communities to fight the epidemic.
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Bonus Shorts Discussion Guide
The research over the course of three years working on The Weight of the Nation project yielded enough material to create in-depth discussions of some of the core issues of the obesity epidemic. These bonus shorts range in length from ten minutes to roughly half an hour and cover an array of diverse topics more extensively than we would ever be able to in the main series.
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