Documentaries about food and health are almost always controversial, especially if they include a view on dieting and weight loss. They end up espousing a myopic view of how to lose weight and be healthy, and lose the viewer who is a long time skeptic after seeing a lot of fad diets come and go.
The documentary "Hungry for Change" was a pleasant change. It focused on giving out balanced information on how the US as a nation has a high percentage of obese individuals, despite all the health awareness, and diets in circulations. The premise of the documentary is that we have strayed from eating the foods our bodies evolved with through million of years to consuming highly processed foods, and if we change that by eating less processed foods, we'd have a better health.
The documentary starts with some eye-opening highlights:
The documentary lists some of the good detox foods: anything with chlorophyll such as greens, and gelatinous foods such as aloe vera, chia seeds. Although they don't sound very appealing, the theory is that as the gelatinous foods move through the intestines they suck and clean up the toxins. The show also recommends parsley and cilantro, as the later binds with heavy metals and removes them from the body. Who would have thought?
The show finally recommends getting more sleep to decrease weight gain because of stress. Sounds like small changes for a bigger benefit, and who knows, maybe we can all enjoy more chia seeds.
The documentary "Hungry for Change" was a pleasant change. It focused on giving out balanced information on how the US as a nation has a high percentage of obese individuals, despite all the health awareness, and diets in circulations. The premise of the documentary is that we have strayed from eating the foods our bodies evolved with through million of years to consuming highly processed foods, and if we change that by eating less processed foods, we'd have a better health.
The documentary starts with some eye-opening highlights:
- Supermarket foods are engineered to have a long shelf life, to be appealing and addictive, and be not fulfilling so that we buy more
- The protocol for making mice fat to study the effects of obesity on health is to feed mice MSG, which is present in about 80% of the supermarket foods
- Airplane pilots refrain from drinking diet sodas, as it interferes with their focus
- Phosphoric acid in sodas can cause loss of bone density
- Total blueberry pomegranate cereal does not contain blueberry nor pomegranate. It contains propylene glycol which adds the blue bits. Interestingly propylene glycol is used to winterize cars, and to clean up the colon before a colonoscopy
- 68% of the population is fat
- Most of that is due to high fructose corn syrup consumption. In the 1970s, Japanese scientists developed a process to separate fructose from corn at a low cost, and its use skyrocketed afterwards
- In 1900, the average person consumed 15g of fructose a day. Today that number jumped to 70-80g with some people consuming as high as 120-150g a day, a 10x increase
- On average, people consume about 150 lbs of sugar every year
- Sugar is the main culprit in making us fat
- Consuming sugars produces beta endorphins, which should be considered a drug
The documentary lists some of the good detox foods: anything with chlorophyll such as greens, and gelatinous foods such as aloe vera, chia seeds. Although they don't sound very appealing, the theory is that as the gelatinous foods move through the intestines they suck and clean up the toxins. The show also recommends parsley and cilantro, as the later binds with heavy metals and removes them from the body. Who would have thought?
The show finally recommends getting more sleep to decrease weight gain because of stress. Sounds like small changes for a bigger benefit, and who knows, maybe we can all enjoy more chia seeds.
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