The Magic Pill... NETFLIX
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AloeSvea
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What a fabulous doco! "Oh! They have all the names! It's Nora! "Oh! Nina the brilliant fats writer. And Doc Davis on wheat, and oooooohhhh - Dr Perlmutter has beautiful green eyes..."
Very impressed with how well the toxic hardened vegetable oil info is communicated.
Anyway, I have 15 minutes more of my break to see how much more of this great doco I can get in...
Very impressed with how well the toxic hardened vegetable oil info is communicated.
Anyway, I have 15 minutes more of my break to see how much more of this great doco I can get in...
AloeSvea
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Thanks, I've just started watching it. It "had me at hello". If only all such documentaries started with such an honest bit of text on the screen right at the start! I like that sort of thing.
Finished watching it. Was good. It was joyous to see the little autistic girl looking so happy at the end.
I do often wonder, and this documentary made me wonder it again: has the Western world backed itself into a corner, diet-wise? Largely because of population size.
In the same way we've evolved a system whereby we are dependent on road networks for supplies. If every mechanised vehicle stopped working overnight, people start dying very quickly.
Equally, what would happen if, overnight, everyone only ate meat and veg?
I wonder if supply could meet demand, and what that would take. How much of the industrialisation of food production is driven by population size? How easy would it be to feed the population of the UK on just meat and veg? I don't know, presumably this has been assessed by someone in some study somewhere
I do often wonder, and this documentary made me wonder it again: has the Western world backed itself into a corner, diet-wise? Largely because of population size.
In the same way we've evolved a system whereby we are dependent on road networks for supplies. If every mechanised vehicle stopped working overnight, people start dying very quickly.
Equally, what would happen if, overnight, everyone only ate meat and veg?
I wonder if supply could meet demand, and what that would take. How much of the industrialisation of food production is driven by population size? How easy would it be to feed the population of the UK on just meat and veg? I don't know, presumably this has been assessed by someone in some study somewhere
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I watched this and was jumping every 2 seconds for doctors that I knew, then I had Prof Tim Noakes retweet my comment on it and went a bit fangirl, i'll admit
that being said, I watched the documentary and one thing that I found interesting enough to make a video review about it https://youtu.be/7s-OkWwZ0qw was that they openly quote studies and write what studies they are on screen so you can go and look them up yourself, so I did that and now all the studies mentioned (including ancel keys') are linked and referred as well.
My only CONS to it is that it might seem biased having all doctors interviews who are also authors, and the lack of mentioning the issue with starchy veggies (which would be ok if it was paleo, but they specifically referring to ketosis and ketogenic diet, so they should have made a point about that IMHO)
Other than that is was interesting to see how differently facts were approached from a documentary like What The Health which I think tried to do the same, but became basically propaganda.
that being said, I watched the documentary and one thing that I found interesting enough to make a video review about it https://youtu.be/7s-OkWwZ0qw was that they openly quote studies and write what studies they are on screen so you can go and look them up yourself, so I did that and now all the studies mentioned (including ancel keys') are linked and referred as well.
My only CONS to it is that it might seem biased having all doctors interviews who are also authors, and the lack of mentioning the issue with starchy veggies (which would be ok if it was paleo, but they specifically referring to ketosis and ketogenic diet, so they should have made a point about that IMHO)
Other than that is was interesting to see how differently facts were approached from a documentary like What The Health which I think tried to do the same, but became basically propaganda.
