SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Matrixiole
Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Lollivan
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Magnum1080
So here is another documentary that correctly points out the main enemy In our diet from the beginning 'Suger'. It reveals how the industry has been trying to blame fat as an ingredient as we associate it with actually being 'fat'. However once you are thinking "okay so avoid that, now what" the documentary takes a very fictitious turn. To list them all would take too long so here is a short list of things that are strongly suggested if not outright stated.Aspartame causes cancer and soft bones.You can send your subconscious mental images of what you want to look like as it speaks that language and will respond by stop storing fat.Cows milk contains pus.Juicing can actually cure cancer. (And eledgidly did)Only the juicing diet is a good diet. You don't need protein. This is the first documentary on health I've ever paused countless times to research the 'facts' that is being spouted. They talk about naturally eating the way mother nature and evolution intended, then all turn to the camera and tell you to extract the insoluble fiber from fruit and vegetables via Juicing. The fiber that is used to aid digestion, regulate blood suger and keep you feeling full. Another frustrating double standards aspect to this documentary is the attack on the industries for giving unrealistic body goals only to use a skinny actress to portray our every woman who is seen snacking on candy bars and pizza. In one scene she gazes at a photo of herself looking exactly the same as if it was a desperate "I want to look like that again" moment. The actress has very defined cheek bones but they do their best to make her relatable. There are so many good documentaries out there right now with no agenda. This one has an obvious one.
mullumbimbylove
This is truly an eye opening film and a must see if you're facing unwanted weight, as well as, many kinds of sicknesses. Thank you guys for putting this very comprehensive film together, the ending is so informative, I think everyone should prepare to write this remarkable stuff done. This is truly an eye opening film and a must see if you're facing unwanted weight, as well as, many kinds of sicknesses. Thank you guys for putting this very comprehensive film together, the ending is so informative, I think everyone should prepare to write this remarkable stuff done. This is truly an eye opening film and a must see if you're facing unwanted weight, as well as, many kinds of sicknesses. Thank you guys for putting this very comprehensive film together, the ending is so informative, I think everyone should prepare to write this remarkable stuff done.
landrytodd
I very much wish that more people would eat healthier. The problems I have with this movie pertain to the biased nature of the movie. The people have an agenda just as their opposition has an agenda.I hoped this movie would be a refreshing movie to review the good and bad of current food, and what people can do to take steps to correcting it. Instead it's a movie to allow those with biased attitudes to give half truths and peddle their books.They don't make entirely true statements in the same way the Food Conglomerates make half true statements the other biased direction.They already had me doubting their truthfulness when they started, and later continued, to reference High Fructose Corn Syrup to be a direct correlation to Cocaine. While I agree that people should not be ingesting as much HFCS as they are, and I agree it's not good for you. There was no need to lie and state HFCS is as bad as cocaine or even in any correlation.HFCS is indeed a reduction of corn to a small concentrate. Cocaine is not just a reduction of a cocoa leaf in the same way as they state. Cocaine is also made by adding diesel fuel, and battery acid. The ways cocaine is horrible are NOT similar to the ways HFCS are.They then go into the second half of the movie discussing how you should really juice all of your stuff. This is a load of crap. The only reason they gave for juicing over just plain eating all of the veggies (which is better for you as it contains needed fiber) is because apparently we've ruined our digestive system so we have to juice everything.This movie is so completely biased in the opposite direction that it can't be taken to full truth value. It dashed my hopes and I can't recommend it to anyone.There are mixed in many sound reasonable truths. However when it's peppered with falsity and half truths it loses credibility. Most unfortunate, wish I hadn't wasted my time.
melinda2001
Two stars for some good basic information in the beginning, zero for the rest. Truthfully I didn't even get to the part about juicing. My BS meter also went off in the middle part about the dangers of MSG so I just stopped and did some digging. The only thing I have to add to the conversation is the result of my brush-up on that topic. I'm glad that I did because I had always heard that MSG is bad but didn't know any details. I thought it was a sort of super-salt. In fact it *is* a salt. It's the sodium salt of glutamate. (Thanks to kmtroy for pointing out it's not the same as guanine.) Turns out that compared with table salt it's basically benign. Both are flavor enhancers. The main difference is that the LD50 of MSG is five times that of table salt which means that it takes five times as much MSG to kill a rat than table salt.What surprised me was both the absurd amounts they gave to baby mice. My back-of-the-envelope guestimate says it would be roughly the same as injecting a 150 pound person with almost half a pound of MSG. Imagine being injected with half a pound of table salt! This does seem to cause a lot of obesity in mice so there is a grain of truth there. I'm just surprised those doses didn't kill all of them.Studies on people don't seem to indicate any real problems with the stuff. (Might it have something to do with the crappy foods that get loaded up with MSG? Nah.) Double blind tests on people taking capsules of the stuff didn't show any problems. The part I liked best was one study where one participant who self-described as being highly sensitive to MSG handled it just fine but claimed a reaction to the placebo.Watch out too about Jon Gabriel, the guy trying to paint MSG as poison. Turns out he's not any sort of scientist. He's just a guy out there selling yet another diet book. So I'm not surprised to hear that the movie ends as an infomercial for a juicer. Personally, I'd rather eat all the healthy fruit and stuff than drink their juice. I'm definitely glad that I learned to not fear MSG.
