I used to have an incredible passion for health & fitness - at passion that I lost just about 10 years ago. I lost that passion when the cultural perception towards health & fitness was heavily shifting towards a "naturalistic" approach; emotionally driven, non-results based and overly commercialized.
At that time, the general consensus of what was the proper way to do things was becoming so anti-intellectual, I thought there was no saving the fitness movement (which has only gotten worse to this day.) What brought rise to this naturalistic approach (I believe) was the rise of "health" documentaries that demonized specific certain foods, alluded to conspiracies, and relied on bad science to promote their views. Case in point: one of Timothy's interviewees said that she started believing in the naturalistic approach after watching health documentaries.
Those "health" documentaries of the past are nothing like what Timothy Caulfield has done with this series. He is very level-headed in his presentation and espouses the evidence-based approach to health & wellness. Surprisingly, the evidence-based approach has become the underdog; the random person on the street is more likely to believe the healthier approach is the natural approach. How has popular perception of science fallen so far? I sincerely thank Timothy for making this series and promoting, into pop-culture, what should be the dominant paradigm. And to top it off, he packages all of this info into a very entertaining series.
To the other reviewers who are calling this series one-sided: how would you suggest Timothy give each side equal credit, when one side is grounded in evidence-based science and the other is grounded in anecdotal experiences and marketing gimmicks? If Timothy's goal was to find the best approach with the greatest amount of evidence supporting it, he has done exactly that.