OT: Really Good Movie/Documentary I Would Encourage People to Watch Related to Nutrition
I know this is not Michigan sports related specifically, but at least tangentially this is related to athletics as this movie is related to nutrition which is very much linked to sports.
I just watched the movie "Forks Over Knifes" and it is fantastic. A lot of times it seems like the movie is full of common sense, yet our country and the world at large continues to become less healthy because we don't listen to the simple advice of this movie: eat less meat and try to move towards a more vegetable based diet.
I am not trying to be preachy as I am extremely obese and will find it hard to implement the suggestions laid out in the movie. I merely am passing this along because I think the movie was very interesting and important.
Hope everybody has a great weekend.
I hope to be celebrating a Big Ten Regular Season Championship come Sunday but am extremely proud of our team.
If I make fun of you for bragging about ultra marathons again, will you have another meltdown?
no, but I am aware of your flamebaiting.
>>I'll have just one cheeseburger instead of three.
Implying 3 cheeseburgers at once was ever normal?
How about one triple cheeseburger? Seems more efficient.
(Mmmm ... triple cheeseburger. /Homer)
doesn't belong here. Whenever someone says their not trying to be preachy, you actually are. I don't want to hear about peoples' lifestyle theories on a michigan sports blog. There are a thousand other places to talk about how awesome veggies are.
I watched it at the behest of a good friend of mine. Once I found out it was based on the China study, I knew it was propaganda. It really has little to do with nutrition, and more to do with anti-affluence and Western Civ.
This doesn't mean that the movie is totally wrong, but it is largely bunk. I know there are some nutritional side effects to the way we raise/grow food, but not as many as this movie claims. I also don't want to pay $30 a lb. for beef, which is what it would cost without modern agricultural sciences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
UCSF researcher makes the case that sugar is not just fattening, but practically toxic.
It should also be added that too much fruit can be even worse, because of the amount of sugar in a whole apple, banana, ect
You should watch Fat, SIck and Nearly Dead -- also streaming on Netflix.