A couple of weeks back I noticed a fellow Facebooker say something about this “phenomenal” video called Food Matters. Seeing the word FOOD in the title I right away googled it to find out more. And since the official trailer seemed rather inviting I rented the entire movie. Here is the trailer:
Now before you go and spend your $4.95USD let me give you my 2 cents. The main idea in the entire production, which I might add doesn’t seem like an elaborate production at all, but a cheap set-up with couple of home cameras, is quite simple and logical: “Food Matters, therefore you are what you eat.” This is not a revelation, we have heard it all before and any half intelligent person can come to that conclusion by themselves. Even my 8-year-old child understands that if he eats candy constantly, he will not feel or look good at the end of the day. So the makers of this video had to spice it up a little bit to get attention and interest from the public. I have to say, in my opinion, the title of this film is somewhat deceiving. From a title that screams FOOD, I was expecting more talk about the actual food. Telling me what I should eat versus what I shouldn’t, maybe how to put it all together, or why certain foods are no good for you. However, there is very little of that. Instead there is a lot of talk about the pharmaceutical companies. What do pharmaceutical companies have to do with food? Well, according to The Teachers*, if everybody ate well there wouldn’t be anybody sick and no need for medication. What’s more they claim that your doctor doesn’t always have your best interests in mind when you go to pay him a visit. What the Doc is most concerned with is that you go to the drug store and get your prescription filled because these 2 entities: the Medical Profession and the Pharmaceuticals work together to keep each other’s existence. As a consequence many drugs have often times been miss-prescribed causing unnecessary deaths! Sounds far-fetched ? Yes, to me too. At this point I was sitting there and listening and not believing my ears. They tried to soften this part a little bit by constantly repeating that they don’t really mean that you should quit going to your doctor, but that you should take him with a grain of salt. Instead of blindly believing your Doc you should pump yourself full of vitamins because that’s the new cure for the world’s diseases, including cancer. That was another revelation in the video: You can apparently cure your cancer with injecting a highly concentrated vitamin C into your system! Well, hello! If that’s the case why are people still dying of cancer? Bring on the vitamin C! Not so fast. Let’s not forget that the Medical Profession is against curing you from your ills and they will not try such a silly and easily available procedure on such a serious illness. They want to keep you buying the drugs that instead of helping you will make you worse and therefore will keep the Pharmaceutical companies afloat! Imagine, if it took just vitamin C to get rid of cancer they would cease making all that money off the poor patient. Cancer is only one of many ills that can be cured with a high dose of a vitamin. They also have an easy program for Heart Disease, Depression, Diabetes and Mental Illness! They even provide a program to Detoxify and Rejuvenate your body! All for an additional fee of $79USD per program, of course! Sounds familiar? Yup.
After more in-depth study of available data on this subject you will find out that there is more to it than purchasing the videos. If you are a person suffering from cancer and you find the promotional videos enlightening you will need to do more than just buy the videos, because obviously it’s not a home type remedy and you can’t try it by yourself. To participate in one of the programs to cure cancer (Gerson Therapy) you will need to dish out a whooping $4.000USD per week to enroll! You will arrive somewhere in Mexico in a clinic and will be fed 13 fruit and veggie smoothies per day, given multiple coffee enemas and various supplements, such as potassium, vitamin B12, pancreatic enzymes, thyroid hormone, and liver extracts which can prove dangerous and fatal. Who is robbing you now, you ask?
Like I said, the premise of this video is a very smart one, not a revelation, but true nonetheless. The society is going down the drain with the way we eat, stuffing our stomachs with fried, over-processed goods. Now teach those people to stop being so dependent on Macfatty burger, next teach them to replace it with fresh foods and you are on your way to a healthier society. But wait, that of course would earn The Teachers little money 
*That’s what these people call themselves on their website.
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