I was intrigued to watch
this documentary with guest speakers such as David Wolfe, Kris Carr, Jon
Gabriel, Evita Rampartae, Joe Cross, Frank Ferrante, and many more. I found it
very inspiring that they want you to focus you’re eating behaviors off of processed
foods and switch to a whole foods diet that has been processed as few times as
possible. They offer personal testimonies from raw food and juicing gurus.
However, it lacks incentives. I feel that the main character they chose to
portray the "average American" that is supposed to be "moody,
depressed and non-confident" looked the complete opposite; I felt that she
looked healthy and vibrant with great skin. She just seemed to stress the fact
that she was gloomy because of her awful diet. Another issue that I had with
the film is that they didn't describe any specific diet; they were just blaming
bad foods such as processed, aspartame, and others. However, besides gelatinous
foods such as aloe vera and chia seeds, I don't recall them specifying anything
that would help clean up your diet. One just makes the assumption that they are
talking about healthy food such as fruits and vegetables.
The information that was
presented seemed logical and it seemed like the basic information that we hear
all the time however, people fail to face up to the facts:
-Hunters and Gatherers:
High food, low calories
It
is deemed that we are natural hunters and gatherers who depend on the earth
that surrounds us. This means that we rely solely on fresh fruits and
vegetables, nuts and seeds, and the occasional portion of meat when there was a
successful kill. Now that processes have been simplified for us, our energy
expenditure has been reduced and we no longer have to search for our food. To
make this food easy to find and accessible year long, we have transferred it so
it no longer is high quality. Our food is no longer "high food, low Cal"
it now is "low food, high Cal".
-Humans are programed
for fat and sugar
I agree with this statement. As presented, we relied on
the food that was provided for us. People were susceptible to constant famine
because they couldn't depend on preserved food as we do today. Therefore when
our bodies tasted something sugary like fruit or fat such as nuts, avocados,
and seeds our brains automatically sent a signal to our body to continue to
feed us more. We needed to pack on the calories and stock up our reserves for
future use. Now, we constantly have food surrounding us. Therefore, we do not
need this "preserve for famine" mechanism that our bodies have
programmed into us. However, people are still addicted to sugar. Americans
today are eating as much as 22 tsp. of TABLE sugar. If this sugar was the sugar
naturally found in fruits and veg, I wouldn't mind because it comes with fiber
and vitamins and minerals. However, this is not the case; table sugar is
refined and greatly contributing to the obesity problems today.
-Starving on a
nutritional level.
The documentary talked about how the body is still hungry
for nutrients even when you are "full". The body knows how to
regulate itself and causes you to still crave or want more food because it is
lacking certain aspects of its diet. This causes people to over-eat and gain
weight because they are feeding themselves the wrong things. I lead to a
vicious cycle with body fat, diabetes and weight gain.
I agree that there are so many people starving even
though they do happen to be overweight. If you look at the diet of many obese
or overweight people you will find it filled with refined carbs such as bread,
rice, pasta, cookies, table sugar, cereal, bacon, eggs, oil, etc. Little in
there do you find whole foods such as STEAMED or BAKED potatoes, veg, fruit,
whole grains, non-fat dairy products. Little vitamins and minerals are included
in their diet. Therefore these individual's bodies force them to eat, yet they
continue to pick items that are void of nutritional value so their hunger is
unfulfilled. This is why these people get sicker than the lean and healthy
people who happen to just eat "rabbit food".
-Yo yo dieting
Self-explanatory, will
continue in another blog
-Food-like products;
shelf life
Corporations only goal is to make you consume their
products. They do not care what they put in it as long as they make a profit.
In order to make a profit they need to make the product last a long time,
therefore they put many preservatives to make a long self-life.
I secretly think that the government is allowing
individuals to get fat because obesity and weight is a good marketing practice.
The fatter people are the more industries will make money on weight loss
programs and equipment. Also nationally, so much money is spending on
overweight people; they make good research projects as well as help boost the
economy because they have so many medical bills.
-Low energy, fog in
cognition.
There is no will in self-responsibility. No one is
willing to accept the fact that they control their body and they are the ones
who feed themselves therefore they are the ones responsible for the outcomes of
their food choices. They are responsible for the amount of activity and type of
lifestyle they life which is result effects the status of their health. They
don't want to come to terms with this idea therefore they want the easy exit
and expect a doctor to prescribe a pill that will solve all their problems due
to poor health.
-MSG is found in 80% of
food9
MSG is an additive commonly found in food. Its affect is
that it invites you to eat more and incites brain to activate fat programs to
store fat and cause you to gain weight.
-Aspartame and caffeine
combined are a deadly combination
When these two chemicals are combined they kill brain
cells. People are addicted to these chemicals in the form of diet soda because
it creates a buzz. It also a legal and "guilt free" since it provides
no extra calories. The effects of these deadly combos are migraines, frontal
lobe inflammation, visual disturbances, neurologic problems, cognitive
problems, precursor to cancer, carb cravings (leads to over eating). Studies
have also shown that people who drink diet soda to control their weight
actually end up fatter than they started.
-HFCS (high fructose corn
syrup)
HFCS is refined chemically modified sugar. It is often
compared to crack cocaine.
The number one thing I
attained from this documentary is that FOOD KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN DRUGS
COMBINED.
Yes, unfortunately this
is true. People are literally eating themselves to death and not thinking twice
about it. If you were at a family reunion, no one would think twice if you
consumed hot dogs, burgers, nachos, ice cream, ribs, wings, chips, cake,
cookies, candy, soda, etc. within a few hours. However, people would "cut
you off" if you consume about five alcoholic drinks in one or two hours.
People will especially panic if they saw you doing illicit drugs. Yet, because
food is legal and we have complete control of what we eat, it has the power to
consume our life and lead to our grave.
These are the main
points that I got from the documentary, watch for yourself and create your own
opinions towards it.
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