Food Matters

[Why Syzygy]

This film is wonderful. It's free :) And I've just started poking around over there.

(I don't think it is as controversial as they say here. Sounds like common sense to me.)

Enjoy!

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/food-matters/

Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food – Hippocrates. That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film Food Matters from Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch.

With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what’s wrong with our malnourished bodies, it’s no wonder that modern society is getting sicker.

Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide sickness industry and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for overcoming illness naturally.
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[drokhole]

1. Fantastic! Thanks for the link! Another documentary (wish I could find it online) that's great...

...is Feed Your Head:

http://store.documentarychannel.com/Feed-Your-Head-p/1065.htm

[trotsky]

2. There's a lot to be said for eating good food.

However, food in itself - even the freshest, most organic vegan diet - is not going to prevent all illness or cure much of anything. People got sick and died even when everything we ate was pure and organic and natural. It's fine to remind people to keep their diet healthy, but let's not veer off into nonsense.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Good diet is very important to health...

but modern society (at least in the West) is not 'getting sicker'. Yes, obesity is an increasing problem; but people are living longer than ever before. And malnutrition is *certainly* not worse in the West than in the past! Deficiency diseases were very common in the past; even people who did not actually go hungry, often suffered health problems from an unbalanced diet, especially in the winter months when fruits and vegetables were unavailable or scarce. And as regards using drugs to treat problems really caused by bad diet: there was a very big problem in the 19th and early 20th century with people being obsessed with constipation as the cause of illnesses, and treating it not by increasing dietary fibre but by taking lots of often harmful laxatives.

There is a lot that could be improved in most people's diet, but there was never a 'golden age' and on the whole, people nowadays are better nourished than in the past. What is really worse nowadays than in the past as regards lifestyle and health, is that we're much more sedentary.

[Paper Roses]

4. Thanks for the link, good to read your post.

Will read it fully tonight after our next round of T-storms.

[Why Syzygy]

5. Hi, Roses!!

Sweet to see you! Wish we could get a storm :)