Documentary: What the Health

What The Health. (2017). [film] USA: First Spark Media on Netflix.

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• A lot of people think they are aware of their diet and are healthy through taking multi vitamins, following the recommended diet and excercising but in what that is just what the industry is telling them to make them buy more stuff. Eat crap > use a supplement > feel better > continue to eat crap and the cycle carries on. Each industry (food and supplement) are very reliant on each other.
• 'Processed Meat Causes Cancer' headlines startled people who weren't aware or never knew the problems. 800 studies from 10 different countries - World Health Organisation found a direct link between processed meat and cancer
• This is not new information. A lot of it has been around for 50 years - why have we not been hearing about it?
• 'We're in the business of treating sick people. Not in the business of preventing it' - Dr. Milton Mills 
• 'Dietary choices trump smoking' 
• In the grand scheme of things, gluten is only a problem for those who are intolerant. It is part of a wider problem of misleading and false information that is causing health problems.
• The doctors are giving mixed messages as to what's wrong
• Government and media exclusive blame lack of exercise and sugar as a leading health problem - where's the bread? Gluten may be seen as a fad because there are always things seen as bad for you such as fat and carbs in the past - is gluten shown as the same as these?
• 'No one wants to fat shame. We want everyone to be comfortable but this movement to be comfortable with our bodies is being comfortable with being sick'
• The focus on sugar has taken all the focus off of meat and dairy 
• Even with all this knowledge the major organisations were not acknowledging it, in fact they were promoting these carcinogens. 
• These large organisations will not admit that diet is a reason for having more health and illnesses and this is probably due to the greedy society we live in today. In the process of being ill or fat, a lot of different powerful industries are at play and so therefore if everyone decided to change their lifestyle they would have no business, no jobs and no income. This is the same with supermarkets, although it is the supermarkets job to cater for the consumer but they are not doing everything they can do educate people and therefore are in the same bracket - the gluten free ranges are because they are so widely desired due to external factors but in fact what they should be promoting is food that is naturally gluten free - but where's the money in that?