"Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food" - Hippocrates
Another incredible documentary on food and medicine. "Food Matters," is an amazing documentary that hits very close to home, it discusses in detail issues that got me interested in nutrition in the first place. My goal when I first got into nutrition was to work with cancer patients. Nutrition not only plays a huge role in prevention, it also plays a huge role in recovery. Being in a hospital after being treated for cancer, or other conditions, patients are feed jello, white bread, and other low nutrient rich foods. Many people leave the hospital weaker and more nutrient deficient than they were when they went into the hospital. How are people suppose to recovery when their bodies are deficient in important nutrients when a deficiency in one nutrient can cause multiple illnesses in the body?
In the United States it is illegal to treat cancer in any other way than with chemotherapy or radiation. Alternative therapies are illegal when it comes to cancer. We are taught the theory of "taking a pill to fix an ill."
Eating real foods, getting exercise, and doing what you can to remove toxins from your body are simple and inexpensive steps that you can take to promote a healthy life. People should stop being patients and start being people.
Another issue is that doctors don't talk about is nutrition and vitamins. Less than 6% of doctors actually get any training during school in nutrition. Instead they are paid by the pharmaceutical companies and so are taught about prescription drugs. Many don't advocate vitamins at all saying that they are unsafe. If you were to take a look at the statistics they show the opposite, in the last 23 years there have been around 2,438, 000 deaths due to pharmaceutical drugs and only 10 due to vitamins (although this is only speculation).
As I said earlier this was an incredible documentary that is a great eye-opener for anyone who wants to do something about their health. It's only a hour and 17 minutes, and well worth the time to watch. Below is the official trailer for Food Matters:
Here is one of my favorite artists, John Butler:
Pura Vida!
Alica Ryan, NTP
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