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| Written by Tim Boyd |
| March 30 2010 |
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Some of our chapter leaders have seen a trailer for this movie that could lead one to believe it is a good one, but since our chapter leaders are pretty sharp, they saw a few warning flags and thought we’d better review this more carefully to make sure. It would be easy to make a trailer full of excerpts that would make this film look quite good. It points out the flaws in the health care system, including the misleading name “health care” when “sick care” is what is really going on. A lot of time is also spent focusing on the well-publicized, uncontroversial villains responsible for poor health in America. Besides junk food, poor lifestyle makes the list. We hear that Americans are “stuffing themselves like ducks on a foie gras farm.” Well, maybe some of them are and I think the main reason for that is because what they are stuffing themselves with doesn’t have much in the way of real nutrition—and this film says that. All this is fine as far as it goes. Then I start seeing familiar names and faces like Fuhrman, McDougall, Esselstyn Jr. and other harbingers of things to come. Sure enough, I’m treated to a full-scale, unveiled attack on meat and dairy. The issue is almost always fogged up due to confusion between industrial meat/dairy and local, organic meat/dairy. Claims abound that humans thrive on plant-based diets, that we don’t need to eat animals to be healthy, that whole milk products promote obesity, that a starch-based diet is the key to good health, that it’s good to have a cholesterol level of less than 150 and that meat-eating causes global warming. That’s why it’s snowing in Dallas. Once again I hear the popular myth that hunter-gatherers ran themselves ragged everyday chasing after their food. The first thing that comes to mind when I hear that is, no, they didn’t. Next, I find it interesting that, even among vegetarians, the hunter-gatherers so often come up as an example of healthy people. True, they were healthy but were they supposedly expending all this energy hunting and chasing plant foods? If you buy into the idea that this planet is overcrowded, then this would be a good DVD to show to everybody for good population reduction options. I’ll be blunt. This movie isn’t just bad, it is awful. I can’t tell you what I really think because it wouldn’t get past the editors. Every thumb I have is DOWN on this one.
This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Spring 2010. About the Reviewer Tim Boyd was born and raised in Ohio, graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a degree in computer engineering, and worked in the defense industry in Northern Virginia for over 20 years. During that time, a slight case of arthritis led him to discover that nutrition makes a difference and nutrition became a serious hobby. After a pleasant and satisfying run in the electronics field, he decided he wanted to do something more important. He is now arthritis free and enjoying his dream job working for the Weston A. Price Foundation. Comments (2)
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see how much unpopulated land there is
then tell me we are "over crowded"?
you must be kidding
we are mis managed....not over crowded!