Bethel Filmmaker's Premiere at the Ridgefield Playhouse - Don't Miss If You're Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic

It used to be that only overweight adults were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. So much so, that Type 2 diabetes was known as "Adult" onset diabetes. This is no longer the case. Thin and overweight, children and adults, are now routinely being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. In fact 1 in 5 dollars spent on healthcare in the United States goes to the care of people with diabetes.

I know all of this because I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at age 36 and at a thin 160 lbs. I'll never forget the absolute panic, while standing in the aisle of Caraluzzi's Market in Bethel, CT. What can I eat? What am I going to do? It honestly felt like the beginning of the end.

After the initial "freak-out", I decided to immerse myself, and read everything I could find on the topic. It wasn't very long before I realized how "normal" my situation was. The rate of new diabetes cases is growing faster than the population. Once I learned this, I knew I would have to do something about it. As a filmmaker, my day job lent itself very well to making a documentary film on the subject.

Two years ago, I started production on the film, Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat. In the film I do my best do chronicle the things I learned about why this crisis is happening. I interviewed experts from across the United States and around the world. The things I learned from them completely changed my beliefs about health and nutrition. This isn't saying much, because much of what I thought I knew about healthy eating was in fact scraps of misinformation from 50 year old science. In other words, everything I knew on the topic I had learned in school in the 80's and 90's.

I began implementing what I was gleaning from experts like Gary Taubes, Mark Sisson, Andreas Eenfeldt, Ann Cooper, Brian Wansink, David L. Katz, Jimmy Moore, David Perlmutter, Jonathan Bailor, Johnny Bowden, Timothoy Noakes, and MANY others. The result of applying what I was learning was that my blood sugar levels were slowly dropping. To a point where I realized that I could manage my blood sugar solely by my diet. I haven't needed medication to manage my blood sugar for years. As you can imagine this gave me a lot of courage to complete the film.

Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat is now complete and almost ready for distribution. The U.S. premiere will take place on Sat. Sept. 27th at the Ridgefield Playhouse. Some of the experts from the film will be present for the Q&A afterward. Attendees will enjoy a free after party featuring gourmet low-carb treats.

International distribution will begin a few weeks later in October.

If you or someone you know is struggling with weight or other diet related health issues, please join us at the Ridgefield Playhouse on Sat. Sept 27th.

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Submitted by Bethel, CT

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