The Beautiful Truth

[OrchardDweller]

I came across this beautiful documentary about the health care industry.
Whether it's the truth or not, I'll leave that up to those who watch it.

The Beautiful Truth (90 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye4N...25467&index=11
All parts should play automatically.

[OrchardDweller]

it seems the link I posted previously gets altered on WaccoBB, so if you'd like auto-play of all the segments, copy/paste this link and then remove the space between the 'w's. Hope that works...

ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye4N8EH3dog&feature=&p=8D77A8CA721951AC&index=0&playnext=1

[DynamicBalance]

I would like to offer my very mixed review of this documentary. There are many things about the film that I liked very much, particularly the explanation of how our current healthcare system (sickcare is really more like it) works, and the discussions of the well demonstrated toxicity of mercury amalgam fillings, sodium fluoride, and excitotoxins such as MSG and aspartame, the importance of organic food, and the dangers of GMO foods. I especially enjoyed the interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock, who I have a lot of respect for. I have researched these topics and found the information contained in this film to be very accurate. It's great to see this info getting out to the public!

However, I also found this documentary to be quite biased towards a vegan diet, and downright dishonest in the information that it leaves out. The invocation of the research of Dr. Weston A. Price, without going into any of the details of what Dr. Price actually discovered, is particularly revealing. Going into the details would have demolished the main premise of the film, namely, that a vegan/vegetarian diet is the only diet that is healthy for humans.

The main message that Dr. Price brought back from his travels is that healthy primitive societies that were free from tooth decay, structural abnormalities, and degenerative diseases consumed at least 10 times the fat-soluble vitamins from animal products as the civilized people of his day. He found this to be true of primitive peoples living in isolated areas of Switzerland, Scotland, many areas of Africa, the Polynesian Islands, Australia, the Andes Mountains, and Northern Canada. Each of these cultures had a very unique and distinct diet, some of them nearly carnivores, and others nearly vegetarian, but the common factor among them was the high consumption of certain animal foods which these people held as sacred and life-promoting. The foods these people held great reverence for included raw and cultured butter and other dairy products from cows eating rapidly growing grass in the spring and fall, organ meats from pastured land animals and sea creatures, bone marrow, and fish eggs. All of these foods are high in fat-soluble vitamins that Dr. Price found to be so lacking in the modern diet.

To learn more about the important research of Dr. Price, I highly recommend reading his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, which can be read for free online here: https://journeytoforever.org/farm_li.../pricetoc.html

The ironic thing is that when Dr. Price started on his journey, his goal was to find a healthy primitive society that was thriving on a vegan diet. It was his greatest disappointment that he never was able to find such a society. The mention of his research in this film, without going into a single detail of what he actually discovered, and the subsequent promotion of a vegan diet is in my mind absolutely deplorable.

The second major thing that I find extremely odd about this film is that several key details of the original Gerson Therapy are completely left out! Max Gerson's therapy for cancer patients included the daily use of raw liver juice, and sometimes buttermilk depending on the patient. Neither of these things can be considered vegan by the wildest stretch of the imagination! I am appalled that Charlotte Gerson is promoting a vegan diet and leaving out several key factors of her father's actual program, in order to further her biased viewpoint. Dr. Gerson is made out to be a sort of genius in the film, so why are the true details of his program being suppressed?

Lastly, I had to laugh at the oversimplification of the discussion of the digestive tract of a human compared to a carnivore. The film showed a crude animation of a short tube representing the digestive tract of a carnivore (a cat) next to a long tube representing the digestive tract of a human. This was presented as proof that humans are not designed to digest animal proteins, because their digestive system is significantly longer than that of a carnivore. Well, using the same logic, I could say that humans are not designed to eat vegetable fiber because they do not have multiple stomachs to ferment fiber like a true herbivore such as a cow. But the reality is neither of these extremes. Humans are omnivores, designed to eat and digest animal proteins along with plant foods. In fact, Dr. Price found that the healthiest societies were those that were neither primarily carnivorous nor primarily vegetarian, but that ate a more moderate balance of animal and plant foods.

The reason I feel so passionate about this subject is that I used to be vegetarian for several years. My diet would be considered nearly perfect by mainstream dietary standards. I cooked nearly all my food at home, combined whole grains, beans, nuts, and seeds for protein, and ate plenty of vegetables including raw salads with olive oil. Every night I experienced extreme cravings for ice cream, which I usually succumbed to. For about 6 months I was essentially vegan except for small amounts of ultra-pasteurized milk in my coffee (which can hardly be considered a food because it is so denatured). During this time I experienced severe brain fog, depression, lack of motivation, low energy, dizziness, muscle wasting, rapid tooth decay, irregular periods with lack of ovulation, and digestive disturbances including constipation/diarrhea, gas pains, abdominal cramping, nausea, and vomiting. I also gained 35 pounds despite walking for long distances nearly daily due to not having a car. My husband, who was on the same diet, experienced many of the same symptoms, and also got the first cavity of his life.

After discovering the research of Dr. Price by accident, I abandoned vegetarianism and began eating a more traditional higher-fat diet based on pastured animal products, bone broths, bone marrow, cod liver oil, soaked and fermented grains and nuts, and liberal amounts of vegetables, especially dark leafy greens. I slowly cut out all industrially-processed food from my diet. I lost all the excess weight I had gained (without doing any additional exercise) and no longer experience any of the above symptoms. I no longer crave ice cream at all. My experience has proved to me that properly raised animal products are essential for human health, and I went on to study nutrition so I can help others avoid the health problems that I suffered from.

Thanks for reading,

Laurel Blair, certified Nutritional Therapist Practitioner

[kristal]

I would like to offer my very mixed review of this documentary. There are many things about the film that I liked very much, particularly the explanation of how our current healthcare system (sickcare is really more like it) works, and the discussions of the well demonstrated toxicity of mercury amalgam fillings, sodium fluoride, and excitotoxins such as MSG and aspartame, the importance of organic food, and the dangers of GMO foods. I especially enjoyed the interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock, who I have a lot of respect for. I have researched these topics and found the information contained in this film to be very accurate. It's great to see this info getting out to the public!

However, I also found this documentary to be quite biased towards a vegan diet, and downright dishonest in the information that it leaves out. The invocation of the research of Dr. Weston A. Price, without going into any of the details of what Dr. Price actually discovered, is particularly revealing. Going into the details would have demolished the main premise of the film, namely, that a vegan/vegetarian diet is the only diet that is healthy for humans.

The main message that Dr. Price brought back from his travels is that healthy primitive societies that were free from tooth decay, structural abnormalities, and degenerative diseases consumed at least 10 times the fat-soluble vitamins from animal products as the civilized people of his day. He found this to be true of primitive peoples living in isolated areas of Switzerland, Scotland, many areas of Africa, the Polynesian Islands, Australia, the Andes Mountains, and Northern Canada. Each of these cultures had a very unique and distinct diet, some of them nearly carnivores, and others nearly vegetarian, but the common factor among them was the high consumption of certain animal foods which these people held as sacred and life-promoting. The foods these people held great reverence for included raw and cultured butter and other dairy products from cows eating rapidly growing grass in the spring and fall, organ meats from pastured land animals and sea creatures, bone marrow, and fish eggs. All of these foods are high in fat-soluble vitamins that Dr. Price found to be so lacking in the modern diet.

To learn more about the important research of Dr. Price, I highly recommend reading his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, which can be read for free online here: https://journeytoforever.org/farm_li.../pricetoc.html

The ironic thing is that when Dr. Price started on his journey, his goal was to find a healthy primitive society that was thriving on a vegan diet. It was his greatest disappointment that he never was able to find such a society. The mention of his research in this film, without going into a single detail of what he actually discovered, and the subsequent promotion of a vegan diet is in my mind absolutely deplorable.

The second major thing that I find extremely odd about this film is that several key details of the original Gerson Therapy are completely left out! Max Gerson's therapy for cancer patients included the daily use of raw liver juice, and sometimes buttermilk depending on the patient. Neither of these things can be considered vegan by the wildest stretch of the imagination! I am appalled that Charlotte Gerson is promoting a vegan diet and leaving out several key factors of her father's actual program, in order to further her biased viewpoint. Dr. Gerson is made out to be a sort of genius in the film, so why are the true details of his program being suppressed?

Lastly, I had to laugh at the oversimplification of the discussion of the digestive tract of a human compared to a carnivore. The film showed a crude animation of a short tube representing the digestive tract of a carnivore (a cat) next to a long tube representing the digestive tract of a human. This was presented as proof that humans are not designed to digest animal proteins, because their digestive system is significantly longer than that of a carnivore. Well, using the same logic, I could say that humans are not designed to eat vegetable fiber because they do not have multiple stomachs to ferment fiber like a true herbivore such as a cow. But the reality is neither of these extremes. Humans are omnivores, designed to eat and digest animal proteins along with plant foods. In fact, Dr. Price found that the healthiest societies were those that were neither primarily carnivorous nor primarily vegetarian, but that ate a more moderate balance of animal and plant foods.

The reason I feel so passionate about this subject is that I used to be vegetarian for several years. My diet would be considered nearly perfect by mainstream dietary standards. I cooked nearly all my food at home, combined whole grains, beans, nuts, and seeds for protein, and ate plenty of vegetables including raw salads with olive oil. Every night I experienced extreme cravings for ice cream, which I usually succumbed to. For about 6 months I was essentially vegan except for small amounts of ultra-pasteurized milk in my coffee (which can hardly be considered a food because it is so denatured). During this time I experienced severe brain fog, depression, lack of motivation, low energy, dizziness, muscle wasting, rapid tooth decay, irregular periods with lack of ovulation, and digestive disturbances including constipation/diarrhea, gas pains, abdominal cramping, nausea, and vomiting. I also gained 35 pounds despite walking for long distances nearly daily due to not having a car. My husband, who was on the same diet, experienced many of the same symptoms, and also got the first cavity of his life.

After discovering the research of Dr. Price by accident, I abandoned vegetarianism and began eating a more traditional higher-fat diet based on pastured animal products, bone broths, bone marrow, cod liver oil, soaked and fermented grains and nuts, and liberal amounts of vegetables, especially dark leafy greens. I slowly cut out all industrially-processed food from my diet. I lost all the excess weight I had gained (without doing any additional exercise) and no longer experience any of the above symptoms. I no longer crave ice cream at all. My experience has proved to me that properly raised animal products are essential for human health, and I went on to study nutrition so I can help others avoid the health problems that I suffered from.

Thanks for reading,

Laurel Blair, certified Nutritional Therapist Practitioner

So, you are saying that a vegetarian diet is unhealthy?

You sound like a quack to me.

[DynamicBalance]

So, you are saying that a vegetarian diet is unhealthy?

I think that a vegetarian diet can be healthy for some people, depending on their ancestral origins, their bio-individual requirements for certain nutrients, and their level of health. For a vegetarian diet to be healthy, it would need to be very carefully planned. One would need to include liberal amounts of raw and cultured whole dairy products from grass-fed animals and eggs from pastured chickens to supply adequate quantities of fat-soluble vitamins found only in animal products. It would be of utmost importance that all seed foods (grains, beans, nuts, and seeds) be properly prepared by soaking, sprouting, or sour fermentation in order to neutralize anti-nutrients such as phytic acid and trypsin-inhibitors, among others. Phytic acid binds to the minerals in your food and prevents them from being absorbed, rendering whole grains no more nutrient-dense than refined grains unless they are properly treated to eliminate the phytic acid. Trypsin-inhibitors prevent the proper breakdown and assimilation of protein, which is so crucial in a vegetarian diet. Soy is particularly high in anti-nutrients that are not neutralized through regular soaking and should only be consumed in fermented forms such as tempeh, natto, or miso. It would be important to always combine grains, beans, nuts and seeds with each other in order to have a complete protein. A healthy vegetarian diet would need to consist of as much organic food as possible, because conventional crops are grown on mineral-depleted soil and contain far fewer nutrients than organic. I would also recommend including brewer's yeast and blackstrap molasses as a supplement to the diet for extra minerals and B vitamins. To get enough vitamin D, a vegetarian would need to expose a good portion of their skin to sunlight for 15-30 minutes every day between the hours of 10 am and 2 pm. A person with darker skin would need to do this for an even longer period of time. During the winter months and at certain latitudes it would be necessary to supplement with vitamin D3. Lastly, it would be absolutely crucial that a vegetarian strictly avoid all refined grains and sugars, as these deplete the body's stores of nutrients such as B vitamins and chromium.

From a nutritional perspective, vegetarianism is not ideal for most people. Few people are willing or able to plan their diet so painstakingly. It is extremely difficult to obtain adequate quantities of zinc and other minerals with a vegetarian diet. If seed foods are not properly prepared to neutralize phytic acid, it is literally impossible to get enough minerals without supplements. Veganism is a whole different story and I would not recommend it to anyone.