Netflix This: ‘Food Matters’

Nutrition; it’s shaped into a basic pyramid that we learned in early elementary school. For the most part, we have an understanding of what is healthy or unhealthy to eat. However, neglecting something fundamental to our well being is easy to do with our busy lives and schedules. America’s current state of health has been  plummeting with more and more people fighting diseases every day like, Obesity, Depression, and all forms of Cancer. Something has to change, because too many people are losing the fight with medicine. An easier answer to helping people beat these diseases, may rest within the food we eat. Food Matters, a documentary under the direction of James Colquhoun and Carlo Ledsma, explores the benefits of nutrition in our medically driven society.

I am always hesitant to watch documentaries about food. I love food that I know is unhealthy; from ice cream to a bloody steak, sometimes it’s better to turn a cheek and indulge in the simple things that make us happy. “What we don’t know can’t hurt us, right?”

Wrong. In reality, there is only so long we can pretend we know nothing about processed meat, pesticides keeping our fruits and veggies fresh for extra lengths of time, and the time our food spends in a truck before it makes it to our plates. Food Matters gives insight from PhD. Andrew W Saul, Dr. Dan Rogers and other nutritional health professionals, as to how and why foods that we believe are healthy, lack the nutritional value our bodies crave.

One way to counteract this lack of nutrition is through taking vitamins. Now, I know from personal experience that taking vitamins seems like some sort of scam. They are expensive, and horse pill sized, and you have to remember to take them daily; another chore, many could do without. However, Food Matters convinced me that taking vitamins is more beneficial than medical doctors lead people to believe. In fact, vitamin treatments for people with cancer have been more effective than people with cancer undergoing chemotherapy treatments.

The documentary highlights cases where vitamin treatments have completely cured patients of cancer, and the cancer has not returned in any form. It is common knowledge that chemotherapy does not always cure cancer, and the cancer may return. Certainly, grounds for considering the benefits of practicing nutrition versus the practice of medicine. Somehow being treated with large doses of vitamins sounds so much more pleasant than being treated with toxic chemicals. Unfortunately, only about 6% of medical doctors are required to have any sort of nutritional education during their mass amounts of schooling. Therefore, vitamin treatment is sparse and hard to find in America.

Furthermore, the documentary unravels the benefits of Superfoods, which are nutrient dense foods found in nature that supplement a highly balanced diet. Through the use of vitamins, and eating or drinking Superfoods, people will begin to see a dramatic change in health, according to the professionals in the documentary. Superfoods are another way to help our bodies counteract the mass produced food we eat day in and day out.

Overall, I would recommend this documentary to anyone with a curiosity about health, whether it be mental or physical. Maybe you have been suffering from energy loss, a bit of depression, or just want to lose weight. The documentary will supply you with information about where and how to tackle these issues, without going to the doctor for a prescription. Sometimes our body doesn’t need medicine, it needs to be cleansed through nutrition. Find out why Food Matters by watching this documentary.