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Liked most of it..

posted 11 years ago by thesavants08
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I really liked this movie. Was it sensationalized in some part? Yes, but we live in a highly sensationalized society. That is sometimes the only way to get through to people. Was the guy dumping out wheelbarrow of sugar a child drinks from 5 years of milk on the floor dramatic? Yes, but I loved it. I have children and am recently going through this. Both of my children have had constipation issues which all of the doctors have denied comes from milk. With my first I trusted everything the docs said and just kept on. At 3 my eldest still has constipation problems because of the problems milk caused as a baby. He now has to re-learn when it's time to go to the bathroom. I only realized this after my second came along. When it was time to switch him to whole milk he had constipation problems. He was miserable, and had never had an issue his entire life. I switched him down to 2% which my doctor said they did not recommend and he has never had another issue. He is still healthy and thriving. The docs still say oh well it must have been something else not the milk. They are in complete denial! The chemicals and sugar allowed in whole milk should be banned.
I myself am overweight and have struggled with my weight since I was a teen. Watching this I had no idea how far back the sugar crisis goes. I thought as long as it had 0 sugars it was ok. I had no idea about the different products that turn into sugar once in the body are not counted in the sugar count. I am a big drinker of diet coke, and have had the affects of it. Teeth sensitivity being the main one and headaches if I do not drink a diet coke once a day. Overall, I do think that our food industry is killing us and I think that is what they were trying to get across. People do not realize how manipulated the FDA is and many of the higher ups in FDA actually own meat and other food companies. It's really insane.
I do not agree with everything that was stated in this movie but overall I like it. I just struggle to find where to start when trying to change our diet.

[–] mokelet 11 years ago

Doctors don't always like to accept your own interpretations, for some reason. Even though you have a sense of what your day to day is like, some of them just refuse to acknowledge that you might actually know what's going on with you or your child's body in some instances. Have you tried switching to organic milk at all? There aren't artificial chemicals added to the milk or the cows, and the cows are just healthier in general. I don't always buy organic, but I always do for milk. I find that it just tastes SO much better. I don't even feel like 'regular' milk has any taste at all to it - hence, I would just never bother buying it in the first place.
I'm glad you got some new insights from the movie, though! I'm still in the process of watching it and your post happened to be the only one haha

[–] gbrookesn224 11 years ago

This is a great movie and it really can change your life. It has changed mine. I now have two green smoothies a day with spinach and fruit and all kinds of superfoods mixed in for good measure. I feel fantastic. The drug companies cannot be trusted. Someone once said"Let medicine be your food and let food be your Medicine". The North American diet is a disgrace, 60% of the people are over weight or obese and the others are not far behind. People need to wake up and smell the spirulina. Stop killing yourself with a knife and fork!

[–] DrmWmn 11 years ago

I hear what you're saying. Especially with this person saying this, this person saying that, it's confusing. Where do you start?

Start shopping on only the outside aisle of the grocery store. Make your own food. It's hard at first and you don't have to slave over a stove or chop vegetables everyday. You can stay active, busy with work, etc, and still eat healthy.

Every Sunday I prepare my meals for the week (breakfast I do daily, but prepare the fresh fruits and vegetable for it ahead of time). I put all of my fruits/vegetables in a water and vinegar rinse and let them soak, rinse, soak in water, rinse and they are ready for quick snacks. I cook a bunch of tilapia and boneless skinless chicken breast in Mrs. Dash, water or olive oil, and break it up into meals with brown rice and vegetables in my ziploc containers. It's like having those prepackaged diet meals, but it's cheaper and HEALTHIER for you!

Hope this helps. If you ever want to discuss weightloss and nutrition, hit me up on here. Happy to help!

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[–] Chihuahua-tership_Down 10 years ago

I liked most of it too. I thought it went a bit off-track though with the whole juice promotion bit, I was half-expecting an advert/plug for a juicing machine. Don't get me wrong, they would be great endorsements for it, they look good/healthy and some of them lost a heck of a lot of weight. It's just that I don't think that's necessary to eat better and get healthy, just include more veg in your diet and less processed food.

There are a lot of things that contribute to the obesity problem and this program highlighted some of them: sugar and processed food being the main ones. I didn't think Jamie Oliver's display was particularly helpful, of course it's going to look like a LOT of anything if you add up 5 years worth of it. Do I think kids should be consuming a lot less sugar? Sure, but I'm not sure milk is the big culprit there. Maybe what he said was taken out of context somewhat.

Plenty of scare-mongering going on with the advice about food these days, but I don't think equating hfcs with cocaine was all that useful. I did think that comparing food advertising and marketing with cigarettes (in the past) was spot-on though, and it's not a coincidence, two of the big food manufacturers were bought up by Philip Morris: General Foods and Kraft.

Regarding where to make changes, I would say just start simple, don't try to change everything at once. I gave up adding sugar to my tea a couple of years ago, use more veg than I did before, drink lots of water, hardly ever drink soda, minimal amounts of caffeine, I eat far less bread, etc. I'm not ready to go grain-free, it would just be too big of a step for me and I wouldn't last. Does that mean I'm addicted? Possibly, but you have to do what works and not try to change the world overnight. I'm also a bit of a junk-food junkie and I'm working on that too, but a habit that was 30 years in the making is hard to break. As for drinking seeds and gloop... I'm not ready for that either.

You don't choose the soy sauce, the soy sauce chooses you.

[–] gppressingon 9 years ago

Chihuahuatership Down, You're right about the lack of context. I thought the excerpt from the Jamie Oliver TED Talk was schlocky showboating, but what undermined it was Oliver starting off by saying he doesn't have anything against milk. Then why is he making an issue of it?

I agree wholeheartedly with your closing line about not being ready for "drinking seeds and gloop." Yeah, when she stirred those chia seed in water then pulled out the spoon covered with a gelatinous mass of yuck I thought the same as you--not ready for that!