My last post was Day 1 to 4 of the free food matters event, so now to
continue because this is a 10 day event, here is more great
documentaries and live Q&A information:
Day 5 was
the super juice me documentary. I haven't seen this one either, and at
the beginning Jason Vale dedicates this to his mom who passed away from
lung cancer. For this documentary he got 8 people with 22 different
diseases between them, and they will drink only freshly made juices for
28 days. They mentioned one good point, when something says fat free,
what ends up making that food taste good is they put a lot of sugar in
it, when it says sugar free, they put artificial sweeteners, and both
have an addictiveness to it and makes you want to eat more of it, and it
causes us to gain weight and not feel so good. I love how they put in a
commercial of a medicine stating how it can cure this but it isn't for
everyone because there are so many side effects, and one important one
saying it can be life threatening, meaning death, and Charlotte Gerson
goes on and says and people go out and buy this because they are looking
for relief of their symptoms, but all it is, is a quick fix, not a
cure. They had all 8 people look at the side effects of their
medications and it was shocking the horrible side effects you can get.
Look for no label food, because it's all natural, not processed. Meat is
fine to eat, but make sure it's a good quality meat, meaning grass fed
beef, and free range chicken. After 28 days, absolutely amazing
results, but you must see this documentary for yourself, another
absolute must see. Very inspirational, and lots of great information.
Day
6 was a live Q&A with Jason Vale. He was very close to his mom, and
she believed in healthy eating, and it's been many years that he wanted
to do a documentary to help others change like he did. He first
suggested to juice half an apple with an inch of ginger and drink that
every morning. A question was asked if you can juice a large batch of
juice and freeze it and use it at a later time, and he said yes you can,
absolutely. Another question was asked if anyone can go on many days of
just juice, or if we should check with our family doctor, and he had a
very good point, no one asks permission to eat chips, chocolate, and
other unhealthy foods, but to ask permission to have what your body
needs which is fruit and vegetable, it makes no sense really to have to
ask for your doctor's permission. After a juice program, you want to eat
low human intervention (LHI) foods, so things like fruit, vegetables,
grains, legumes, nuts/seeds, and to keep eating that way to stay
healthy. Jason's challenge for any juice skeptic; if you are thinking of
doing it, go for it, because something is always going to come up, but
your body is the most important thing, so your 28 days away from being
the best you can ever be. If it doesn't work you can go shout at him.
Take the challenge and write to him after to tell me how you feel! Jason
Vale is really amazing, he provided a lot of great information.
Day
7 was the Carb Loaded documentary.Starts off by talking about a guy
that weighs the same weight since high school, he goes to the doctor's
and finds out he has diabetes, with no family history and with what he
thought was a good diet. With advances in medicine it would seem that
people should be healthier now then ever before, however it starting to
appear that the opposite is the case and most experts agree that we have
a serious problem. They go on explaining what diabetes is and it is the
8th leading cause of death world wide. Our food portions have gotten so
much bigger! So many products contain carbohydrates, and they explain
about high fructose corn syrup, making it sound like it's healthier
because it's lower in fat, but it's high in carbs, but it really isn't
healthy. We need fat, but healthy fat. They explain how people say
healthy food is expensive, but in the long run, it's not that expensive
"Pay the farmer now or pay the doctor later" so yes you might not spend
much on food now but later on you will pay so much in medical bills, so
it's best to spend a bit more and eat healthy. You want complex carbs
(fruits, vegetables, healthy grains) in your food not high glycemic load
(white flour, white sugar, processed foods). Just eat real food! This
documentary was very good, and also helps open your eyes more to how
eating healthy is so important.
Day
8 was a live Q&A with Dr. David Perlmutter. He had a part in carb
loaded and he has a book called Grain brain, because food has a huge
impact on brain health. If you have type 2 diabetes, you increase your
chances of Alzheimer. Autism is a gut disorder. An autistic brain, is a
brain that's inflammed, so it's all about the gut. Use probiotic and
fermented foods to help. Most issues with the brain will be cured by
curing the gut. Yes you can eat grains, but make it healthy grains, but
watch your carbohydrate intake, and that it's not GMO grains. Fermented
foods: it's a process that happens in nature that we adopted. It is a
positive event, it helps grow positive organisms, and has an important
role in healing the gut. Fermentation is something we really need to
revisit. How to heal your gut? By eating lots of fermented drinks/food,
taking a probiotic, or probiotics through enemas, or you can do a fecal
transplantation (from someone who is healthy). We should be eating fats,
it's so important, have some extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil
(mostly saturated fat, but it's vegetarian so it does not contain
cholesterol, so it's very healthy), nuts/seeds, meat should be grass
fed, avocado. Butter? Grass fed organic butter is good, don't go crazy,
but you can have some. Fruits are good for us but be restrictive,
because it does have sugar in it, healthy sugar, but still shouldn't eat
to many in a day, especially dry fruit, it increases inflammation. Dr.
Perlmutter suggests we have the following on a daily basis: Probiotic,
some form of DHA (fish oil), tumeric, good fat, and vitamin D (starting
at 5,000 units). If your vegetarian, include B vitamin, and iron. So
much information was provided, it was amazing.
There's
still 2 more days to go on this free Food Matters event, I will post
the last two days on Thursday. Hope everyone is enjoying all this great
information like I am.
