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

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5 Responses to “Food matters”

Leslie

05. Oct, 2008

My diet totally effects my chemical issues. Since going on a macrobiotic diet about two years ago, I have gone from not being able to leave my house- to riding my bike around town, going into small (non walmart type) stores for short periods of time, and best of all mold doesnt have 60% of the effect it used to.
I am stil all F-ed up, and not well enough to enter society in the “normal” way …but there has been a slow steady improvement where my reactions don’t last as long after, and don’t come on as fast.
I really hope that is goes away one day, all together… and that is what I am working towards.
Each person has to experiment with diet because our bodies all need different things- but it is good to notice what you really crave and what really makes you feel good & bad.

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Gail

17. Mar, 2010

HI,

I just discovered this blog, and I just discovered I am an MCS sufferer, eventhough I have been fragrance sensitive for years. It has become worse in the past few years and after research, I found out that it is a disability and I can ask for reasonable accomodations from my employer, which I am doing. I am on this thread because I am curious if any of you have tried liver detox programs, or other detoxification practices like a sauna, or body brushing? I don’t believe my sensitivities are as severe as they can become, and I want to head this off now. I am going to purchase some masks, because some places are just unbearable. Please advise on the liver detox programs if you have tried them. thanks.

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- Susie Collins
  
  18. Mar, 2010
  
  Aloha Gail and welcome to The Canary Report!
  
  Unfortunately there is not a one-size-fits-all fix that works for everyone who has MCS. You’ll need to explore the options an see what works best for you. Most importantly, be sure your home is chemical-free, and extend that to your place of work if possible, eat well (organic, lots of plant foods), exercise a bit (although monitor yourself because depending on how ill you are, exercise can sometimes be counter productive), and investigate which supplements are recommended for people with chemical sensitivity.
  
  I like to refer people to the Pall Protocol; I think Martin Pall is ahead of the curve on MCS research, and he’s designed an over-the-counter supplement protocol that you may like to check out.
  
  Here is Martin Pall’s website. It might interest you to know that in his peer-reviewed and published research, he’s discovered that a toxic response to stored chemicals is not the main problem: the NO/ONOO cycle is the problem (you can read about that on his website). He’s not found evidence that stored chemicals in the body have a major role in most people with MCS. http://thetenthparadigm.org/index.html
  
  But that said, people can try all that listed above and still not feel well; we are each different.
  
  We have many discussions about the topics you’ve raised and much more on our network, if you’d like take a look in the archives on our forum or perhaps post your question there. Here’s the link. http://thecanaryreport.ning.com/
  
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Judy Sterling

18. Mar, 2010

Hi,

Personally, I have found that my environmental sensitivity issues are a mind, body, spirit connection. I have improved my overall health and well-being through diet, exercise, stress reduction, energy healing work and naturopathy. Recently I was tasting what I smelt. A whiff of someone’s perfume and I might as well just have drank the bottle. My naturopath has me on a liver detox, is cleaning my lymph system and bolstering my adrenals. Two weeks into the treatment and this problem is gone. Everyone’s path may be different but I totally believe that we are all capable of healing ourselves.

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- Susie Collins
  
  18. Mar, 2010
  
  Aloha Judy! Thanks much for your great website! It’s great to hear you’ve found a lifestyle and treatments that improve your quality of life.
  
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