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If you've ever wondered whether food matters, watch this film. The feature length documentary film Food Matters is an eye-opening collection of interviews with leading nutritionists, naturopaths, scientists, medical doctors and medical journalists covering:

• How to use food as medicine
• Who needs vitamins
• Is organic better
• How safe is our food
• Natural treatments for lowering cholesterol
• Foods that fight anxiety and depression
• Natural therapies for cancer
• Which drugs might do more harm than good, and
• The best ways to detox, lose weight and keep it off

“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates (ca 460-377 BC)

That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film Food Matters from producer-directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch.

With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker.

Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide ‘sickness industry’ and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for overcoming illness naturally.

In what promises to be the most contentious idea put forward, the filmmakers have interviewed several world leaders in nutrition and natural healing who claim that not only are we harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but that the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer.

The focus of the film is in helping us rethink the belief systems fed to us by our modern medical and health care establishments.

The interviewees point out that not every problem requires costly, major medical attention and reveal many alternative therapies that can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than conventional medical treatments.

This film is available with Japanese subtitles. Does your community speak Korean or Chinese? Ask us about Korean and Chinese subtitle text availability. We may surprise you...

Superfoods are foods that have fewer calories and more nutrients than other types of food. Today, our normal food is often grown in poor mineral depleted soil and spends a long time on a truck or in a warehouse before we eat it.

This means that the nutritional quality of our food is very low, even if we eat more ‘healthily’, we will still probably not be getting all the vitamins and minerals our bodies require.

Superfoods are simply a more potent source of nutrition and provide higher levels of antioxidants and can be divided into five main groups

• Green superfoods: wheat grass, barley grass, wild blue-green algae, spriulina, chlorella and leafy green vegetables.
• Bee superfoods: royal jelly, bee pollen and proplis.
• Seaweed superfoods: nori, kelp, dulse, arame, wakame, kombu
• Herb superfoods: nettle, aloe vera, echinaecea, ginseng
• Fruit and nut superfoods: goji berries, raw cacao, maca, acai, coconuts, cocunut oil, noni

by David Wolfe - Superfoods are vibrant, nutritionally dense foods that have recently become widely available and which offer tremendous dietary and healing potential.

Food is labeled organic when it has been grown, raised, harvested and packaged without the use of harmful chemicals, such as fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, growth hormones or antibiotics.

Organic also means the produce has not been genetically modified. When we choose organic we not only look after the health of our own body and immune system but also the health of our family, the health of our soil and the health of our planet.

The best way to get organic food is to grow it yourself (but watch out if the local council sprays the streets for mosquitoes or other bugs near your garden as happens in some parts of Asia). If that’s not an option, try your local grocer, farmers market, or search the internet for a company that delivers organic produce to your door.

Is this a challenge for you where you live? What would it take to get in touch with a supplier, generate a cooperative, or grow your own? Do you have some knowledge about what’s happening in your area you could share with others? We have some info here.

Learn phenomenal things from Cuba's movement to local organic food.