The New Bedford Wellness Initiative continued its effort to raise health awareness with the goal to help prevent disease through healthy living organized a screening of the film "In Defense of Food" on March 15, 2016, at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. In the film, journalist Michael Pollan reports his recommendations for reversing the damage being done to people's health by today's industrially driven Western Diet. The film debunks the daily media barrage of conflicting claims about nutrition, Pollan offers a clear answer to the question of what to eat to be health in his summary statement: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Following the film, Dr. David Ludwig, a noted endocrinologist, researcher at  Boston Children's Hospital, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and professor of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, who was in the film, spoke about his new book, Always Hungry. Click here for the Standard-Times article. Click here for a fifty-minute video of the event. Click here for photos and video of a screening of the film " Escape Fire" held on June 9, 2015. For more information on the Initiative, go to the New Bedford Wellness Initiative Facebook page.