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Food matters

Posted on Oct 02, 2008 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Media/Videos, Susie Collins

I’m curious: Does your diet impact your chemical sensitivity? Do you eat organic? Do you try to eat the most nutritious food possible? I’d love to hear your comments on this.

Here’s an interesting interview at Common Ground of two filmmakers about their documentary Food Matters.

Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures, people continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and everyday maladies.

Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient sparse foods is not helping the situation. In a personal quest of discovery, James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch set out on an independent mission to uncover the wholesome truth, ultimately producing and directing the documentary film Food Matters.

The film seeks to uncover the business of disease and, at the same time, explore the safe, cheap and effective use of nutrition and supplementation for preventing and often reversing the underlying causative aspects of illness. The Food Matters duo has independently funded the film to remain as unbiased as possible, delivering a clear and concise message to the world – food matters.

Joseph Roberts: What inspired you to produce Food Matters?

James Colquhoun: The biggest single motivator for us was personal experience. My father was quite unwell at the time. He was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety and depression and not responding well to a raft of medications. He was suffering quite severely from the side effects. That spurred our personal interest in sourcing alternatives for healing and looking at the source of the problem, as opposed to masking symptoms which medications often do.

That led us to study at the Global College of Natural Medicine. We were quite surprised that many others are familiar with the concept that you can eat well to prevent illness. We also discovered that nutritional therapy and detoxification processes can reverse illness – heart disease, diabetes, depression, cancer and mental illness. That was a really big turning point for us and we were quite motivated to inform as wide a population as possible.

JR: Which basic principles did you discover?

JC: Metabolic illnesses play a part in just about every illness that exists – you have an over-toxicity and a lack of nutrients. These can be caused by any number of things, but in order to reverse these illnesses, we need to look at detoxifying the body and replenishing nutrients. Those concepts basically facilitate our bodies to create balance and self-heal. Everyone is familiar with how your body heals itself when you cut yourself or if you have some sort of scar. It’s not such a different concept whether you have a cut on your arm or heart disease or diabetes and so forth. Once you restore balance to the body and give it the environment that creates optimum health and balance, it will regenerate and self-heal.

Link to full interview and more about the film

Tags: Film, Food, Healthy Living, Organic Gardening