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this is the first film i've ever seen next to zero message threads... why??
were you listening? or were you looking at the women in the red dress?...
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If all you eat is hamburgers, you will become one -- and hamburgers don't read and write.
shareIt is odd that no one is discussing this. Strawberries are the highest in pesticides...
Marianne
I am watching this documentary right now... so... I can't discuss anything yet.
But so far I'm enjoying it and believe it preaches a very important message. Won't alter my life dramatically but will definitely make improvements in my diet.
Are pesticides natural to the strawberry? Or a by-product of a type of commercial production that one doesn't have to support?
shareAs far as I know, no fruit has natural pesticide. Whether chemical or natural pesticides are used on fruit, they are there. insects like fruit. It's very hard to grow fruit without added pesticides. Strawberries are very high in pesticides. Pesticides are poison which we take in in tiny doses. How much poison do you want to take in? That is the whole of what I was trying to say.
Love,
Marianne
People are hopefully not responding because this movie is garbage and virtually full of lies. I've just written a review on this movie so I won't go all out here, but I'll just say that this is full of inaccurate information. Frankly some of the "doctors" should have their licenses revoked or investigated. They claim that the medical field is wrong and then give their "insightful" advice, well guess what their "advice" most of the time is what I learned in school so they aren't saying ANYTHING that isn't taught.
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Because nobody wants to watch this propaganda.
shareit's odd so little. It popped up on Netflix as something I would like so I tried it. I thought pretty controversial so thought there would be reviews and discussion here.
I would highly recommend Food Inc, but not this movie.
This film is absolute garbage. "People would rather spend money on rent or a new car than a super food?" Yea, no *beep* buddy, I need a place to live and transportation to get to my job. And to put it into perspective on what they are saying; drugs such as medicine and surgery are bad, and eating healthy will cure disease and make us have a better lifestyle. This is also a crock of *beep* think about it, is the Paleo diet that effective? Yes, we can live off of food uncooked, but we can live off of almost any type of food that is thrown at us because we are very adaptive organisms. I think they are forgetting important facts: People live longer now than they ever have, even though they still eat like *beep* pretty obvious explanation there, and people are helped much more vastly by medically prescribed drugs than are hurt, cancer patients, the polio vaccine? This film basically bashes the prescription drug industry by throwing out skewed and redundant statistics and showing off big numbers. If 225,000 people die a year from "prescription drugs and the effects related to them", think of how many people it helps, and how many lives are saved and prolonged by them. This film is completely one sided, I mean there is not even an opposing view from anybody interviewed, and selectively biased towards one opinion. Anyone who believes this anecdotal and skewed "evidence" are the people that tend to believe one view that is put in front of them. Yes, we need to eat healthy, but claiming healthy eating habits inhibit disease that kills people, cancer, tumors, etc, and then bashing the drug industry with faulty statistics and people being interviewed? Come on now. This movie just got ridiculous with their claims, and I just had to turn it off about 45 minutes in.
shareThis film features a lot of David Wolfe. A well-known charlatan in the raw foodist movement.
I love it when these pricks claim that doctors only want to make money then they proceed to push their $30-50 "programs" and books and DVD's on the suckers that listen to them.
Having what I consider to be a reasonable amount of commons sense I enjoyed the movie and believed I was able to filter out some of the extraneous suggestions that super foods and vitamins can simply replace the prescription drug industry.
I also believe that if I eat a good healthy diet I shouldn't need extra vitamins and minerals. My diet should provide everything I need. Healthy animals in the wild don't need them.
The prescription drug industry is just that, it's an industry. Wikipedia has some interesting things to say on Longevity including misconceptions about life expectancy say 100+ years ago and the data being skewed by infant mortality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity#Longevity_and_lifestyle
There is a (statistical) suggestion that a healthier diet is likely to add years and make them quality years, we should eat more vegetables, not allow the drugs to turn us into them.
I'm happy to see people fill themselves with crap and then grab for the pills. No one I know who takes pills has a better quality of life for them. My father took pills to counter side effects of the side effects of the side effects of the pills he was taking to pain manage a disease that had been grossly misdiagnosed and treated by doctors when he was a young man. In the end, it killed him.
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Your near violent reaction to this documentary is rather strange. Bit of false consciousness, maybe? Certainly don't sound smart enough to be a shill.
Your ignorance is actually astounding.
Instead of quantifying our added years, why don't you try qualifying them?
It's also clear that you don't understand biology at even a basic level.
Where do you think disease comes from? Someone's magic wand?
Naturally, you have no comprehension of evolution either. Adaptive how? We've adapted to survive on a stew of chemicals and GMO corn? Really? Or do we need serious intervention to even function at the most basic level (try doing some research on the growth of depression rates. It's only gotten worse since the advent of those SSRI "lifesavers.")?
It's also not that one-sided. They qualified their arguments numerous times by stating that pharmaceuticals can be beneficial to those suffering from acute illness. It's the chronic illness (and that might need quotes for various things a la medicalization) that is best served by radical lifestyle changes, starting with the most basic: nutrition. QUALITY nutrition. Most people are barely surviving off of "nutrition;" processed, potentially modified, monocultured, nutritionally sparse corn.
Also, you are aware that the polio vaccine caused many to develop cancer, right? I assume someone of your intelligence has access to a database, so you can fact check that there. ;)
You don't understand how evolution works and how living organisms work. Adapting to junk food through evolution means we first need some mutation by chance of a few humans who's health and immune system won't be affected by junk food. Which means, they were born that way, as a variant by chance, not because they ate that way. And while most of us are dying of junk food, they managed to have more offsprings. And because they are healthier, they can take better care of their offsprings, and when they age, they are less of a burden to their offsprings. So their offsprings fare better in life. And so their genes start to spread faster than others. And over thousands of years, everyone would carry that gene.
Now you can see why we shouldn't be eating packaged processed foods, and should be eating like other primates.
As for life expectancy, modern long life is due to availability of clean water, and good sewage system. And if you look at Chinese architecture before modernization, homes are compounds designed to house 4 generations. Even when men married in their 20s, the eldest would still be very old. Chinese tradition also don't celebrate births annually. There's a birth celebration for infants making 1st month, then, 1st year. After that, the next birthday is 50, then, 60, 70, 80, and so on.
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This film has less to do about medical cure, or this versus that. It is emphasizing the incredible self healing capacity that's already built into our body. And modern diet is damaging that self healing immune system.