Interesting Documentary about Health Food Junkies

[Dastardly]

More shock type entertainment for us lot. These lot think raw foliage is the key to ultimate health.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTecK6odDoc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0dMxwoT5U0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnVHOzkrlL4

[stronger]

My species didn't claw its way to the top of the food chain to have me drink my own urine and eat 5lbs of lettuce per day

[BigJavs]

this is totally like my boss. i think people like this have addictive personalities and transfer their addictions to being "healthy".

[hbriem]

Apart from everything else, most of them look awful!

I couldn't watch it all. The insanity was just too much.

[TChase76]

My wifes knows a girl that is crazy like this. She started out vegetarian, then went full vegan, and now only eats raw food. She looks like shit.

[Sami]

I think it's the plucky music in the first part that has my cracking up. :D

[RobertFontaine]

There's something smart about eating raw veg with your meat :)

These lunatics have a couple of useful ideas.

[gordonrumble]

Interesting, watched the whole thing. They've taken a good idea (not eating crap), and taken it way, way too far. They've also thrown in a fair bit of mysticism, like pendants that use quantum mechanics to project cleansing fields and shit like that.

There's a strong argument to be made for eating organic foods, and eating vegetables raw, and even for minimizing your carb intake through grains and other food sources that popped up recently in our history. Having the made-up idea that heat destroys the nutritional value of all food is absurd. We've been cooking meat for hundreds of thousands of years, and will have evolved to handle consumption of cooked meat very well. Dairy has been given to everyone as babies for hundreds of millions of years, and it's clear that consumption thereof for those evolutionarily equipped to handle it as adults (ie not lactose intolerant, etc) doesn't kill you.

If I had the money, I'd eat organic Paleo with dairy, and laugh at the scrawny, weak and sickly raw foodists i push over with my breath.

[Scrofula]

There's a strong argument to be made for eating organic foods
Nutritional arguments? I thought the main point of organic food was environmental impact (and that even those arguments are shaky).

[gordonrumble]

Nah, mostly it's that they're tastier.

My sister does get an allergic reaction from some of the chemicals that get sprayed on non-organic food though.

[PVC]

Anyone else notice that the guy giving the seminar on the raw food diet is absolutely hilarious?

"It's more important what you don't eat than what you actually eat."

"When you actually eliminate certain foods completely without any exceptions, on a cellular level you literally evolve!"

I think this documentary is a perfect example of why Science 101 courses should be mandatory in college.

[Dastardly]

Nutritional arguments? I thought the main point of organic food was environmental impact (and that even those arguments are shaky).


Nah, mostly it's that they're tastier.

My sister does get an allergic reaction from some of the chemicals that get sprayed on non-organic food though.


It is both. Most fruit & vegetables have been bred specifically to respond best to chemical fertilisers and pesticides. The important thing is for them to grow big.

This thinking for this science and type of mass food production was conjured up in the UK during and post-war where there was rationing and food shortages for years. There were big changes made in the country to make sure we always had a food excess from now on. In a similar way, I think the cold war supercharged this kind of agriculture and food production in the USA.

The old varieties which were not so dependent on fertilizers or pesticides usually grew smaller but were a lot tastier. Having much more concentrated flavour. Organic farming uses these older varieties and is the reason why a few things taste so much better when organic. Carrots are a good example. Organic carrots taste rich & tasty even raw. But chemically grown carrots are much larger & insipid tasting. But with something like bananas it is unoticable. Organic would simply mean the workers and local residents to the farm would not have to deal with so much pollution from pesticides and fertilisers.

[Charles Staley]

This whole movement isn't about food, it's about politics. But I guess that's obvious.

The interviewer missed a profound opportunity: Upon watching the loony chick drink her own piss while extolling the health benefits of doing so, the interviewer should have followed up with "In that case, have you considered eating your own poop for even greater health benefits?"


More shock type entertainment for us lot. These lot think raw foliage is the key to ultimate health.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTecK6odDoc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0dMxwoT5U0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnVHOzkrlL4

[Sami]

This whole movement isn't about food, it's about politics. But I guess that's obvious.

The interviewer missed a profound opportunity: Upon watching the loony chick drink her own piss while extolling the health benefits of doing so, the interviewer should have followed up with "In that case, have you considered eating your own poop for even greater health benefits?"

Charles, that's just being absurd and ridiculous; the British don't say "poop".