Food Matters
Closed CaptioningJames Colquhoun & Carlo Ledesma
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'Food Matters' is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies. The film sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide ‘Sickness Industry’ and exposes a growing body of scientific evidence proving that nutritional therapy can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than most conventional medical treatments. 'Food Matters' features interviews with leading medical experts from around the world who discuss natural approaches to preventing and reversing Cancer, Obesity, Heart Disease, Depression, Mental Illness and many other chronic conditions. Find out what works, what doesn’t and what’s killing you. Becoming informed about the choices you have for you and your family’s health could save your life. Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food" - Hippocrates.
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Steve Jobs did these types of therapies and he still died of cancer
Hi,
If you read Steve Jobs official biography (just read it so he's on top of my mind). Steve Jobs for about 8 months tried all of these types of alternative therapies to cure his cancer and did not have any CSR (Cancer, Surgery, or Radiation). He was a billionaire and had been into Veganism and Fasting since his late teens, so he had access to all of the best resources available. Despite all of these treatments including large amounts of fruit juices, acupuncture, herbs, the cancer spread. Doctors could not state if he would still be alive had he had his cancer been treated earlier with CSR (Cancer, Surgery, or Radiation) versus waiting those crucial 8 months.
At the time of his death, he was more hopeful that we would be able to develop targeted drugs that would be able to cure Cancer. He of course died of cancer despite the fact that he believed in the natural health philosophies espoused in this documentary.
NONETHELESS
As Benjamin Franklin said, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", and this documentary is excellent for people interested in kick starting a preventative healthy lifestyle. I would just recommend not getting woo-ed into thinking that there's no such thing as illness to include the common cold as long as you're healthy. Reason being is that if you get sick while living this healthy lifestyle (I did), then you won't feel disappointed. Of course, you'll never know if you would have gotten more sick (as in severity) or the length of the illness would have been longer had you not been practicing preventative health. To use Steve Jobs, we'll never know if Steve Jobs would have contracted cancer earlier in his life had he not been practicing preventative health practices since his late teens. Maybe.
I highly recommend this documentary, but advise you not to wooed into thinking that if you practice preventative health that you'll never healed AND if you do have an illness that these treatments they recommend will work 100% of the time. (they won't). Even one of the talking heads stated that his vitamin therapy reverses cancer about 50% of the time.
Most Respectfully,
Geoff
Good premise but poorly executed
This documentary certainly has some great information and is very thought provoking. Some of the speakers appear very knowledgeable and it has certainly made me think about nutrients and food.
However, as a documentary it really wasn't very well made. It was mostly talking heads interspersed with some shots of people pretending to take pills or feeling depressed, etc. There was very little supporting data, and only a few references to specific studies. This topic could have been handled much more comprehensively but I think that this lacks substance and is easily open to challenge to those who might wish to dismiss these ideas.
I still recommend watching it for a little inspiration, but don't expect much in the way of specific information.
Totally Misleading
This documentary makes some good points about the lack of focus on preventive healthcare and potential flaws in westernized medicine that have led to the over medication of society and skyrocketing healthcare costs. However, it makes numerous misleading statements about the way modern drug therapies are brought to market, the National Library of Medicine, and the medical profession in general.
The film is full of tall claims with no evidence but anecdotal case reports to back them up. It is unethical and dangerous to give people false hope that serious illnesses such as cancer can be 'cured' using methods that have not been proven to be effective in well-controlled studies. Indeed, no biopharmaceutical agent on the market in the developed world today gets there without rigorous testing through well-controlled clinical trials. Of course, there is no mention of this in the film. It lacks fair balance in this way, and also in that it does not mention the major strides modern medicine has made in treating diseases - there are numerous examples of drug treatments that have proven to change the course of and even eradicate disease. It also fails to discuss the huge profits made by 'nutraceutical' manufacturers - approximately $28 billion a year is spent on vitamin supplements in the US alone. So spinning high-dose vitamin therapy as an altruistic, non-profit approach to disease treatment is just wrong.
I do believe that good nutrition can prevent and even improve the treatment of disease, and we as a society should move to incorporate nutrition into our approach to healthcare. However, it is not the end all, and selling false hope is tantamount to selling snake oil.
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