What's With Wheat now on Netflix North America
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Thanks for letting me know. I've been watching a lot of food related documentaries on Netflix, currently watching "In The Defense Of Food". I am so frustrated, angry, sad at what has happened over the years to our food. It's hard to know who to trust or believe because it all just follows the money and not telling us the truth.3
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I've been looking for that!1
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I'll have to look it up.1
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Just added it to my queue. I watched The Widowmaker on Netflix over the weekend. For any who have not seen it, I would recommend it.1
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Thanks. Added both to my treadmill queue.1
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PaulaJSchiller wrote: »Thanks for letting me know. I've been watching a lot of food related documentaries on Netflix, currently watching "In The Defense Of Food". I am so frustrated, angry, sad at what has happened over the years to our food. It's hard to know who to trust or believe because it all just follows the money and not telling us the truth.
Don't get frustrated...you now have the knowledge and have the means to make the best food choices for you and your family when you shop and prepare. I am enlightened and know that I am in the top 1% of healthy eaters, not manipulated by the big food companies and government (who are paid off by the big food companies).
Sure the food pyramid is a joke and needs to be turned upside down. but the tide is shifting. A report came out yesterday that babies should not be given fruit juice. Yep, and I said it before the reporter - "because of the sugar". So sugar is now being given the look it always should have, what do carbs break down into - sugar. So it will probably take a while, but I think the heavily processed, chemically created, high sugar/carb foods - will be known to the masses as the reason why our country has such a high rate of obesity.2 -
PaulaJSchiller wrote: »Thanks for letting me know. I've been watching a lot of food related documentaries on Netflix, currently watching "In The Defense Of Food". I am so frustrated, angry, sad at what has happened over the years to our food. It's hard to know who to trust or believe because it all just follows the money and not telling us the truth.
In defense of food is my FAVORITE non-fiction book. I had no idea there was a documentary! Adding THAT to my treadmill queue too!1 -
PaulaJSchiller wrote: »Thanks for letting me know. I've been watching a lot of food related documentaries on Netflix, currently watching "In The Defense Of Food". I am so frustrated, angry, sad at what has happened over the years to our food. It's hard to know who to trust or believe because it all just follows the money and not telling us the truth.
It is great watching these documentaries. However, please know you need to do some of your own research on them as not every documentary can be trusted. All documentaries have a slant. Some slant to the point of ridiculousness. The best example is Forks Over Knives. They did a great job of citing studies which made it very easy to look at the studies to see that what was in the documentary is actually 180 degrees from what was actually shown. This is one of the critiques of that film if you have someone who is trying to force the low fat "plant based" diet down your throat with this movie:
https://deniseminger.com/2011/09/22/forks-over-knives-is-the-science-legit-a-review-and-critique/3 -
Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »PaulaJSchiller wrote: »Thanks for letting me know. I've been watching a lot of food related documentaries on Netflix, currently watching "In The Defense Of Food". I am so frustrated, angry, sad at what has happened over the years to our food. It's hard to know who to trust or believe because it all just follows the money and not telling us the truth.
In defense of food is my FAVORITE non-fiction book. I had no idea there was a documentary! Adding THAT to my treadmill queue too!
I really liked that book as well. Adding that and What's with Wheat. Thank you!! @PaulaJSchiller and @Sunny_Bunny_0 -
JohnnyLowCarb wrote: »Sure the food pyramid is a joke and needs to be turned upside down. but the tide is shifting. A report came out yesterday that babies should not be given fruit juice. Yep, and I said it before the reporter - "because of the sugar". So sugar is now being given the look it always should have, what do carbs break down into - sugar. So it will probably take a while, but I think the heavily processed, chemically created, high sugar/carb foods - will be known to the masses as the reason why our country has such a high rate of obesity.
Not necessarily disagreeing with anything you're saying. I do believe at least "part" of what's causing obesity is the engineered food. IMO at least another rather significant part comes from misinformation regarding diet/fitness out there too.
I've almost finished a book called Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, it basically talks about a lot of the physiological effects of prolonged stress. As many of us are painfully aware hormone profiles can really have a drastic impact on body composition and metabolism. It's immensely complicated, but I do thing it also plays a pretty significant role too. Prolonged stress (from work, finances, social interactions,etc) are a relatively recent thing from an evolutionary standpoint, and our main sources of stress in the western world. None of those types of stressors generally alleviate quickly either, as opposed to acute existential stress (think life of death type stuff).
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Just watched What's with Wheat last night. I think they hit the points the general public is not seeing which are:
1 - the wheat we have now is not the same as what our ancestors would have eaten because it has been hybridized to increase yield
2 - glyphosate (Round-Up) contamination on nearly all wheat which has been shown to not directly affect humans, but it does kill bacteria. Given what we are learning about our microbiome, killing that bacteria has led to many of the problems.
3 - our ancestors who did eat it did so after fermenting it which broke down the gluten and other proteins into forms our bodies could digest. Current products are quickly processed in such a way that the glutens and other proteins are not broken down and because of #2, we don't have the bugs in our gut to break them down
4 - wheat (and other grains) were introduced to our diets because we (as a species) struggled to get enough calories and these were calorie dense foods. Now that we live in a part of the world where the number one health epidemic among the "poor" is obesity, we don't need calorie dense foods.
5 - creating a monocrop culture which separates the livestock from the fields the way we do now such that the livestock are living in cramped spaces with grains being shipped into feed them while the fields where the grains are grown are being "fed" with artificial fertilizer is crazily bizarre. If we had true farms like we did 100 years ago where the livestock excrement fed the plants and the plants fed the livestock, both would be healthier as would we.
If we were to go back to growing naturally occurring wheat and other grains in an organic fashion and fermenting the grains as our ancestors did before putting them into food, maybe we could consider them a viable food option. However, point 4 really makes that a moot point. And, point 5 should be the guide to how we set up a sustainable food system for those parts of the world where we do need more calories.
For those who have not seen it, Allan Savory has a great Ted Talk which is related to that last point:
https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change#t-4591156 -
I've almost finished a book called Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, it basically talks about a lot of the physiological effects of prolonged stress. As many of us are painfully aware hormone profiles can really have a drastic impact on body composition and metabolism. It's immensely complicated, but I do thing it also plays a pretty significant role too. Prolonged stress (from work, finances, social interactions,etc) are a relatively recent thing from an evolutionary standpoint, and our main sources of stress in the western world. None of those types of stressors generally alleviate quickly either, as opposed to acute existential stress (think life of death type stuff).
I love Sapolsky's books and have had this on my Kindle for a while, must get to it soon.1 -
"cstehansen wrote: »-It is great watching these documentaries. However, please know you need to do some of your own research on them as not every documentary can be trusted. All documentaries have a slant. Some slant to the point of ridiculousness. The best example is Forks Over Knives. They did a great job of citing studies which made it very easy to look at the studies to see that what was in the documentary is actually 180 degrees from what was actually shown. This is one of the critiques of that film if you have someone who is trying to force the low fat "plant based" diet down your throat with this movie:
https://deniseminger.com/2011/09/22/forks-over-knives-is-the-science-legit-a-review-and-critique/
I agree, everyone needs to do their own research, but it isn't easy. It seems that even among the "experts" there is a lot of controversy and disagreement. One researcher will site all the studies and research to back their point of view, only to find out, by another researcher that the results are false, paid for by (or paid OFF by) the very corporation it is trying to promote(or condemn).
I have read enough to believe grains and inparticularily wheat should not be at the bottom of the food pyramid and the biggest part of our diets. But for every person who believes as I do there is an equal amount of people who believe it is the LCHF WOE that is unhealthy. Heck, most health professionals disagree with this WOE.
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I started watching and eventually switched it back over to a show about buying historic homes in parts of England I've never heard of. Seriously, though, if they want people to get the message they need to make it sound more interesting.2
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@cstehansen I was watching Allan Savory just last evening. I swear that stuff makes me want to go buy a farm. Need to win a lotto first tho.2
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@cstehansen I was watching Allan Savory just last evening. I swear that stuff makes me want to go buy a farm. Need to win a lotto first tho.
So far I have a garden and have plans to get chickens next year for the eggs. I don't think I can convince my wife to move to a place big enough to do more than that.0 -
My Mom always said if I believe half of what read and hear then divide that by 2, I'll be close to the truth. Works for me. Doesn't have to be "truth" for others.2
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PaulaJSchiller wrote: »Thanks for letting me know. I've been watching a lot of food related documentaries on Netflix, currently watching "In The Defense Of Food". I am so frustrated, angry, sad at what has happened over the years to our food. It's hard to know who to trust or believe because it all just follows the money and not telling us the truth.
Finally got to watch In Defense of Food straight through today. Really enjoyed it. Thanks again for posting.2 -
