Saturday, December 4, 2010
Change in Weekend Plans
I had plans to go away this weekend and the way the morning started out I decided that it would be a disaster waiting to happen for me to be on the highway. Therefore I decided to cancel my plans and stay home. This evening I watched a DVD that I had purchased awhile ago and was waiting to watch while visiting my aunt this weekend. When I talked to her and canceled the trip I told her I could not wait to watch the DVD any longer. Here is the trailer. A colleague at work told me about the documentary. I enjoyed the movie and place it on the must see list for every one I care about. I am not sure it scared me bad enough to correct my eating habits but it has a lot of good info and is motivating as far as making me want to learn more about the theories they describe in the movie.
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well and this guy is also making money on us--this is so much quatch really hate all these nay sayers
ReplyDeleteYes Heidi the commercialism in the documentary made me wary too. But I felt the idea that we are what we eat is important and the idea that vitamins are important since our soil is depleted is interesting too. When I started the pritikin food plan I stopped taking C and B complex thinking it was not needed as I was eating better. But I wonder now with the idea that our food sources are depleted if I need to resume. Also I was wondering any way because especially C is only in our body a short time and our immune system needs it all day long. At least mine does. I am exposed to a lot of germs over the course of a day.
ReplyDeleteIt is ironic that 60 years ago, long before infomercials and all the modern scientific study in a household with 7 other siblings and two adults there was never a bottle of vitamins, supplements, stimulants, relaxers or whatever came from the pharmacy or off the OTC shelves. No chewable children's, this or that, no vitamins dressed up like cartoon characters.
ReplyDeleteMy parents believed that everything you needed could be supplied by mother nature. I've had milk directly from the source, still warm, we ate vegetables we either grew ourselves or were purchased from a farmers market. We ate fresh fruit, when possible, rarely ever drank fruit juice of any kind, when spent the maximum amount of time every day that we could out in the sunshine.
The only exception to that was Dad lining us up for our dose of Cod Liver Oil when we were young. Finally some doctor or pharmacist that he trusted told him that was a waste of time and money, THank you JEE-hay-ZUS! That stuff was NASTY!
My Dad lived to be 95 years old, my mother to 80 and all of my siblings are now in their 50's and 60's. None of us has ever had any heart problems, cancer, or any real fie threatening disease (I have adult onset diabetes but nobody else in my family has it ... the only difference between them and me is the year I spent in Viet Nam. The rate of Veit Nam Veterans with Adult Onset Diabetes is three times the national average for non-veterans of the same or any any other age group. Why? Must have been something we ate.)
Of course farming was different in those days. Fertilizer for the craps was provided by the livestock, forked into a manure spreader and distributed in the field (probably illegal now.)
If you had an infestation of some kind of bug in your tomatoes, you introduced aphids to the crop. Aphids killed the bug on you tomatoes, but didn't harm the tomato plants.
If you had worms in the corn, you introduced some kind of different worm which lived off the corn worm and then died without eating the corn.
I can remember many of my friends who grew up on the farm who joined FFA (Future Farmers of America) and spent several years studying entomology to provide natural and effective counter measures to the bad bugs.
Has life gotten much better in 60 years? Who is to say. It certainly is different, that is for sure.
Tim, we don't eat like we did 60 years ago. Our food is highly processed. Even those of us who try to eat more fresh foods will be obtaining food grown in soil depleted of the needed natural elements that make our food nourishing. That is the point of the documentary.
ReplyDeletethe web site that goes with the film
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foodmatters.tv/
the other point is that our medical community and pharmaceutical companies do not want to do treatments like treating cancer with vit C because it is not an expensive drug or a big money maker. People therefore go to Mexico to get Vit C cancer treatments. I am not saying if this works or not. But when I took micro last summer the book said that cancer requires two things - a virus and a carcinogen. If Vit C does help the cold virus then perhaps it does act on viruses and therefore would break the chain of one of the two requirements of cancer.
ReplyDeleteAnd that niacin treats depression. I have heard that large doses of Vit B does help depression before. I am not sure that it does or not. I know that alcohol depletes Vit B and that replacing it is a good thing when people are recovering alcoholics. The documentary talks about AA and Vit B and why they ended up not suggesting it to the people in AA. Kind of scary.
ReplyDeleteAlso that a plant based diet treats cardiovascular disease. That is the exact type of diet President Clinton went on. In fact I think the documentary mentions the same doctor Clinton did in his interview about his diet.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a time when there was less crowding and I grew up in California where warm weather made it possible to grow. We also had cheap fruit, but we never ate out of season fruit and we were healthy. We did not take vitamins and I never gave my own children vitamins because we had so many fresh fruits and vegetables to eat. I don't eat much meat at all, I do have type II diabetes so don't eat any white foods; just grains and vegetables and fruit. I have a real aversion to pharmaceuticals and at my age only take two, but I do take eye vitamins and baby aspirin. If you do not have year round access to fruits and a
ReplyDeletelocal vegetables vitamins are probably a good idea. Actually, there is a pretty good vitamin supplement supplement called Ener-C that is a powder to dissolve in water or juice, that has most of the essential vitamins and minerals. My husband didn't eat vegetables so I bought this for him to drink and put it in grape juice.....two birds with one stone. There are more and more farmer's markets springing up around the country. We have one every Wednesday in my neighborhood. One of the things I would warn gainst though, living in the heart of the winter salad bowls as I do; don't buy bagged salads. Buy the heads and cut it up yourself. The packing conditions are often undesirable and once something is sealed in an airtight bag bacteria grows quickly. Salmonella and e coli are very dangerous to children especially.
Good hints Kitty - thank you! Glad to have you stop by and leave a comment.
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