I thought it was incredibly interesting and it makes me want to do something. Eat healthier. Become a nutritionist. Something!
Did you know that your food is already a week old when it gets to the store? This is called globalized food industry. Your food has to travel from 1500-2000 miles just to get to you. Did you know that most soils that grow your food only get three minerals when food needs 52? If they don't get it from the ground where do they get it? Did you know that when you cook/steam/heat your food your body treats it as a toxin? It also loses enzymes and nutrients with heat.
Their solution? Eat local produce. Eat organic. Eat 51% of your meals raw and your body will not react to your meals as toxins. Plus 1-2L of water with every meal (to flush the toxins out).
106,000 people die every year from procedural medicine (taking medications as directed, routine medical operations). I mean, wouldn't you die if you lived in a hospital with all its white bread and jello? Studies have shown you come out of the hospital more malnourished than when you went in. The medical field totes 'pill for an ill'. One pill for one ill. Even though they say this, it isn't true. Medication made for certain things have come to be known for its uses in other areas. You have 24 nutrients that your body needs. Just 24 for every single thing your body makes, does, and runs. If you lose just one of those nutrients - a whole myriad of things can go wrong. The theory behind nutrients or nutrition (instead of drugs) is that if you identify that nutrient (or more) that you are missing, you will cure not only the main thing that is ailing you, but everything else as well. The body doesn't heal selectively. It is the idea that you have a problem, you give your body the nutrient it needs and it takes it and uses it to heal your body and voila you are healed. This idea is put in practice by the Gerson Therapy. They have a 50% cure rate of cancer (not just the 30% that survive five years, which really means 70% of cancer patients actually die, it truly means cured). I think its interesting that 25% of the commercials out there are for drugs. The drug companies rule. Why? Because they have money and they want to make money. Nutrition doesn't make money. It makes people healthy. Drugs. Now there is something that can make a lot of money. A drug is a substance that doesn't cure an ill, it just makes it bearable with a side of effects (that need more drugs, ironically). Why do we feel ill? Because we eat crappy. So, when we feel sick, we shouldn't run to the doctor and the drug companies, but run to the source - bad nutrition. They stated an interesting thing about doctors.
Doctors go to medical school where they learn about medicine and then they prescribe medication. But doesn't this sound so much better? Nutritionists go to nutrition school and learn about nutrition and then they prescribe nutrients. It sounds SO much healthier and it is extremely true. When have you gone to the doctor and they haven't prescribed you a medicine? That's what they do. They also say a lot about what they don't know. "Well, we don't really know much about that yet..." And you're still prescribing medicine for something you really don't know anything about? How can that be healthy?
Is the solution to healthcare more access to medicine? Or more access to education about nutrition and health?
Food Matters does make a good point that when it comes to medical breakthroughs with prosthetics, emergency surgeries and such they do a superb job, but when it comes to chronic illness and disease - they suck. The underlying factor of disease is lifestyle. And doctors never talk about lifestyle and no one actually changes their lifestyle - even if their life depends on it. Although people think about making healthy choices, they hardly ever make them. The leading disease in America is cardiovascular disease and it is a lifestyle disease, fully preventable and reversible.
If we switch what we buy consistently and make that healthy change of lifestyle, eventually the industry will catch on and will have to change. The squeaky mouse gets the cheese. And in the end the best nutritionist for you - is you. You need to take responsibility for your own health.
Food Matters is on netflix - go watch it.
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