Mark Bittman: "Food Matters", part 1

[TheFightaz]

food is sold for profit not for health. makes sense !!

[shescarribean]

I dont think the idea is really raw verses cooked... Its Nature verses Processed. We really need to understand any illness we can have, nature really does provide a cure. The food we eat has been taken over by special interest groups - who really, truly don't care about our health! Its about the bottom line. And the government who used to at one point watch out for us has been bought and sold to the highest bidder. I am really grateful for documentaries like this. Thank you!

[migueldavies]

Strong naturalistic fallacy

[audralorraine]

A Pillsbury advertisement aimed at children preceded this video... ironic.

[antidoteco]

O man he had me on the hook until he said Global Warming ...stick with what you know and stay out of the politicized science dude

[FindsLoveInAllThings]

There was an advertisement for Sierra Mist soda before this video... irony anyone?

[spkrwill]

Unbelievable 'mouthwasher! Do you really believe anything you said? Maybe a shareholder in a gmo company. Saved no body's life, made billions you mean! Destroying farmland, suing farmers, screwing anyone who grows anything! What are you doing here?

[mjufpn]

Funny thing that idea of eating healty basicly means going back to what we did in the past. We know how to eat healty we just dont do it hehe. Any book I read about healty eating is the same. EAT VEGETABLES EAT FRUITE- new or old book its the same old story. Eat meals three times a day- eat big breakfast eat less on lunch eat the least for dinner. Drink befor eating or after eating [30 minuts dilatation]. Dont eat too much sweets dont eat too much meat, eat whole grain etc.

[MsLittlemee]

I like raw food but my stomach doesn't, it rambles and feels heavy. The best food for me is cooked millet. It never persists in the stomach

BTW come to Poland, or somewhere else in the North, in winter and eat only raw fruit and vegetables. The temperature here can fall below -20C/0F Good luck:)

[bobbygnosis]

I like that the commercial is McDonald's. A person who seeks this information already knows McDonald's is ridiculous. McDonald's doesn't understand. They think "documentary about food; let's advertise our food too" and they'll never know because they don't care.

Let them waste their money. I think it's funny.

[AceNightCreeper]

wow...we are watching a movie called food matters..and my advertisement is for a big mac...irony

[LarkaSojourn]

How Inaproate is THAT! ad department? Really, slap a McDonalds commercial ahead of this video .. bad form.

[mouthwasher]

I appreciate that you guys care about your food, but please don't buy into the bullshit that runs through this fad you buy into. Eating anti-oxidant-rich foods haven't been proven to do anything exceptionally good. Applying heat to food CAN cook off some vitamins and whatnot, but so does cutting vegetables and using water right after. Genetically-modded foods cannot harm anybody, (rather they've saved roughly one billion lives) And this guy lies about what our life-expectancy is! We're not 45th!

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[Pulsed101]

Well i just purchased the film 'FoodMatters', it also comes with a downloadable E-book with recipes and detox information. I'm 24 and can't believe 1 in 2 people will get cancer in there lifetime! Something's definately wrong n it makes sense to me that its all got to do with our food... And microwaves, i've always thought those things were dodgy. Can't wait to start! :)

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[ThePhantomLash]

Cooking food made us Human : Catching Fire ...

[danmarino1970]

Hey everybody.. Juicing is sexy. Kale = Super green veg (alkalizer) and Apple. The other combo.. Apple and Carrot... 3-4 x a week or everyday if you can. =)

[captaindrywal123]

you can put salt on veggies? omg this i have to try

[holisticguy]

patsfan - all i need to do for myself is to trust my gut instinct. and it says i should avoid frankenfoods

[holisticguy]

some people might notice salt intake increasing when they switch to a mostly-veg diet. the reason being is that many vegetables need extra salt and/or seasonings or they simply don't taste good period. i'm not pro-meat. i'm not anti-meat either. i eat mostly veg

[000piper000]

@holisticguy do you eat organic? Organic veggies by and large taste much better.....

[SovereignBeing]

u forgot to say you must have celtic salt, pink himalayan salt, natural sea salt, or pure lake salt, nothing processed or with additives, then salt actually becomes very good for you and u can then use as much as u like...

[Gr8stuffis]

OOOpps sorry, this utube re arranging of things got to me and comment three is actually comment 4 and vice versa, It is a copy and paste of a press release dated May 19, 2009, from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine

If i am a conspiracy theorist patsfan753, I am amongst good company, including Greenpeace, who sued the Thai government for negligence of duty which caused the widespread contamination of Thai farms by illegal genetically engineered papaya.

You sir, are the idiot.

[Gr8stuffis]

Maybe the heads of the EU, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Japan and others are all conspiracy theorists, since they have banned GMO in their countries? wow.. the whole ship has gone mad, in your eyes.... LOL

[patsfan753]

I'm all for eating healthy but you tools can't provide a shred of evidence of how GMO foods are dangerous or unhealthy. Nothing but conspiracy theorists.

[Gr8stuffis]

@patsfan753 OH please, spare me this kind of nonsense. CIA? Corp Stooge?, heavily invested in the pharmaceutical companies? or just a German looking to make the whole world like you? Keep your BS to yourself.

and btw... i wouldn't doubt that you don't have' insects' living in YOUR bowel and probably in your brain too ...

you might want to tell me exactly where it is that i said insects living in a bowel? Or are the little buggers making you do what you do? LOL

[Gr8stuffis]

@patsfan753 Why don't you educate yourself. Start with seeing all the parts of The World According to Monsanto, here on Utube, also get yourself a copy of Seeds of Deception. by Jeffrey Smith... go to Barnes and Nobles and read pg 14, or Bruce Lipton's Biology of Belief, After you have done this, if you are not better informed to think before you speak, than come back here and I will point you in the direction of articles written within the medical community, and even from members of the FDA

[Gr8stuffis]

2.There are groups of medical practicioners in all countries, including ours ,working to ban GMO crops. Read the statements of the Irish Doctor's Evironmental Association for one. and here is a copy and paste of the statement given out by the U.S. Doctor's Association last April: see below number's 3 and 4.

[Gr8stuffis]

3. and that GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health. The report is a devastating blow to the multibillion dollar international agribusiness industry, most especially to Monsanto Corporation, the worlds leading purveyor of GMO seeds and related herbicides.

[Gr8stuffis]

4The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has just issued a call for an immediate moratorium on Genetically Manipulated (GMO) Foods. In a just-released position paper on GMO foods, the AAEM states that GM foods pose a serious health risk and calls for a moratorium on GMO foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes there is more than a casual association between GMO foods and adverse health effects

[Gr8stuffis]

Please read 2, 3, 4 and the one under that. If you need more proof and documentation, i can provide you with long lists of references, including ones from medical journals. Please partsfan753, so not waste our time with your childish attempts to violate the truth.

[Gr8stuffis]

From what I hear it is unfortunate that now the source of food DOES matter too, since that they are actively genetically engineering your food

and infiltrating the FDA to make sure that you are kept in the dark about what you buy, as there are no labels reflecting this fact.

[Gr8stuffis]

Want to see someone age more quickly than they should? Feed them GMO food which is in almost all prepared foods, and some fresh foods in your supermarket..

Read Bruce Lipton's Biology of Belief, on pg 14 where he states that the manipulated DNA of the GMO food will alter the DNA of your own bowel flora.

[Gr8stuffis]

I.E. a GMO plant that produces it's own insecticide will change your own body's bowel flora to produce insecticide, that is slowly released into your body on a constant basis.

So not only are you ingesting more insecticides into your body from the GMO crops that are manipulated to withstand greater amounts of insecticides to kill the weeds, but some of the crops are actually causing your own body to then poison itself from the inside.

[patsfan753]

There are insects living inside my bowel!? =0

You sir, are an idiot.

[Gr8stuffis]

Join organizations like the Organic Consumer's Association, and the Institute for Responsible Technology:

and vote with your pocketbook, one forkful at a time, before it is too late for you, the children, and our planet as well.

Once GMO aggressively takes over all crops, it will be all over but the crying.

[sailor3333]

Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with Bittman, it's just frustrating to see this same cycle repeat itself. The rest of the world does things a certain way. The US pushes its "modern" ways all over the globe to make/save money... then it turns out that they are ultimately counterproductive... So, then they (the US) "rediscoveres the wheel" and then tries to sell this all over the globe. When it turns out that the rest of the world was doing it right from the beginning. -So UScentric.

[meloearth]

Ah, but McDonalds are loved everywhere, by humans of all nationalities! The new generation (kids/teens) in those countries is buying it and headed in that same direction! Kids are getting fat! Cycles happen b/c we forget, b/c we are easily persuaded by propaganda, regardless of where we are from. It's a human nature thing. Time to recoil the blaming finger and seek to work together towards good common goals.

[sailor3333]

WOW!

So, now the US is going to claim to have discovered what Italy, Spain, France, etc... have always done food wise...

Please.... Lame.

[darknesseveraftergod]

yep our food is poisonning us!

Asparthame(neurotoxin), Fluoride(rat poison),

GMO's, Bovine Growth Ormones,

pesticide and insecticide sprayed all over our crops

[PreCurSeD]

they cant have their "health care" if everybody is healthy......so they feed us garbage.......great!

i can either eat the bullshit or starve.....

[willwyne]

i got a "pop tart" advertisement on this video....how ironic...hahaha

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[teensfightinghunger]

Nice video... and book. I hope when we help others via food donations we will donate sensibly (healthfully) too.  Thanks.

[afridimo]

thats what capitalism produces in the end I suppose, if the government does not lay down some rules to regulate and oversee these industries or segments of the economy.

[NonSenCESmokEsU]

global warming is a scam.. from the same illuminati animals that created gmos and kill us each day with such chemicals in out foods.

[DiamondPaul2000]

I'm with this guy. I grew up eating unsprayed fresh food right from our back yard garden. I had a short period of eating comercial food and found how awful it is. I do all my own cooking - no recipes. I've 2rules: Its got to taste great & its got to be healthy. (Don't care what it looks like). People think I have strange tastes. I look at what they're eating and ... (I won't say :)

[johsy]

@DiamondPaul2000 AGREED!

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[Roscojo]

The food industry, like the medical industry is not about "feeding the world" or "saving lives", its about money.

[crewlla]

he looks tired.

[entropyfu]

Don't get me wrong, I like Bittman and have a couple of his books. BUT, he's really sounding like a Michael Pollan wannabe. He even has the hair!

[Suzanne42]

Why don't you put your face up on the internet so the world can criticize all of YOUR flaws!

[thrivesurvive]

The best way to cook is NOT to cook. Raw food is the easiest, most healthy way to eat. Anyone can eat an apple or make a salad.

After watching the film, "Food Matters", my husband went 51% raw. The more raw food we eat, the better we look and feel.

Is the book related to the film? It's a great film.

[cookingupastory]

I've heard good things about that film, thrivesurvive. No, the film and book have no relation to each other. I believe you can see a trailer on their website, foodmatters[dot]tv

I recently met a woman who changed her whole way of eating from some meat to total raw. She says she feels so much better than before. Personally, I am eating less and less meat. Especially after hearing and thinking about what Bittman says.

[thrivesurvive]

Thank you for your response. :) I am so glad you are feeling better. After reading the China Study, I found no reason to continue my consumption of animal products. I feel much better now. I am very thankful for your channel and the information you are sharing. Every person is unique and beautiful and we all strive to find a diet that meets our unique needs. Information like your videos help bring people closer to meeting that goal.

[ziberteck]

Yes but you miss out on good succulent, savory tastes.

[thrivesurvive]

Some of the best raw food is very succulent and savory. I was amazing how much you can do with raw food. And the flavors! Anyone can make a salad, but raw food doesn't stop at salads. Good stuff. :)

But I still love a good cooked Thai curry now and then. There are raw versions, but the real thing always calls me back.

[cookingupastory]

I had my first ever all raw meal just 2 days ago at my friend's house, who I just mentioned in above comment. We had a salad, a pasta dish (raw veggies cut into noodle shapes), fruit salad, and a raw cacao pudding (avocado-based). It was all *so* delicious! I had no idea. The flavors and textures were varied and I was totally blown away by the tastes. I can see incorporating more raw foods into my diet, and less meat, like Bittman says.

[thrivesurvive]

That's awesome! That cacao pudding sounds really good. It''s amazing how you can't taste the avocado at all. To be 100% honest, I have never experienced so much joy from food as I do now. The flavors are so vibrant and real. Once in a while I crave some of the dull, savory foods of my past, like baked yams and curry, but I think those are cravings caused by emotions because they are comfort foods for me. I'm so glad you had a positive first raw food experience. :)

[ziberteck]

well your right if made the right way any food can be made delicious, and raw veggies are a lot healthier than cooked ones. But meat, dairy, and eggs are part of a well balanced diet as well. Not trying to insult your life style just saying its healthier to eat all food groups.

[thrivesurvive]

I think those foods work well for some people, but not for me. The main thing is to be well-informed and to do what works best for you. After reading the China Study (among others), I chose to exclude all animal products from my diet. I am not lacking in any nutrient and I am very satisfied. Hopefully you opt for raw, organic dairy to reduce the levels of harmful ingredients found in conventionally grown. I wish you the best.

[ziberteck]

Well thank you, but all those foods people mention that are bad for you I eat and I'm healthy. Lots of other people I know are to. Then again we exercise but yeah. Just remember the human body has adapted to these things and we can tolerate them a lot better than what most articles mention.

[thrivesurvive]

Please refer to my last comment. good day.

[Georgia4God]

I have heard of a very extreme case of healing. I don't remember who or where, but somewhere in the USA in the last 50 years, a doctor of natural medicine tried to heal arthritis, diabetes, and several undiagnosed diseases with large quantities of whole raw milk. After 6 weeks of only raw milk diet, many ailments were cured or much better. I really think that raw m,ilk is much better than processed. I am glad to have my own milk cow to serve the purpose! :)

[thrivesurvive]

I completely agree. Regular cow milk is filled with hormones, antibiotics, toxins, puss, blood, etc. Plus, the cows are generally treated VERY badly, and the babies that should be drinking the milk are chained up in crates for veal. In contrast, having your own organic, free range cow that is raised with love and not pumped full of garbage produces superior milk (especially when unpasteurized).I don't consume animal products on principle, but for those who do, yours is the best way to do it. :)

[Georgia4God]

Finally, someone with different diet habits who actually can be civil. Thanks so much! That, of itself, helps me respect you more. :)

[thrivesurvive]

Thank you very much. The way I look at it, every person is responsible for what they eat, and nothing I can say will convince someone that my diet is right for them. I only present it as an option because it has worked so well for me, I would feel selfish by not sharing with others. Whether they accept of reject it, I know I have done my part, and I know what works for e is not perfect for everyone. I don't see the point of arguing with people about food. It's a very personal issue.

[Macedon51]

@thrivesurvive

That is not true. Some foods need to be cooked. See Dr. Fuhrman's videos on youtube. The body absorbs more efficiently if one of the 4 food categories is cooked. Soups from organic vegetables are particularly nutritious. I am a raw food proponent BTW, especially juicing greens.

[dan46and2]

@thrivesurvive The problem with the raw movement is that most of it, from what I've read, is based on this same kind of thing: anecdotal evidence about feeling better. I haven't seen any convincing research showing any kind of benefit the way the raw food proponents purport to get. Most of the research that raw foodists point to is research done on vegetarian diets, which HAVE been shown to have substantial benefits. (Disclaimer: I went vegetarian for ethical reasons a while back.)

[thrivesurvive]

@dan46and2 My take on it is, what do you have to lose by trying raw food? Nothing. Why sit around and wait for science to prove anything when you can try it and see for yourself? Eating raw is logical and intuitive. I don't know why anyone would discount anecdotal evidence. It's not like anyone is lining up to fund raw food research. In fact, why would anyone research what is self-evident? There is a ton of science and proof though. You just have to take the time to read it.

[dan46and2]

@thrivesurvive Anecdotal evidence isn't usable in place of facts. There's nothing "self-evident" about raw food being good for you, it may make sense to you, but UFO's might make sense to you as well. I'm not inclined to try going raw entirely, so without outside evidence that it's actually beneficial, I probably won't. Some foods, HAVE been proven to lose some/most their nutrition from being cooked, and I'll always try to work more raw greens in, but as for going all raw? Unlikely, for me.

[spastic505]

@dan46and2

Anecdotal evidence? Man, you're fucking stupid. Learn a thing or two. Plus, she was not trying to convince you to go raw anyway so who gives a shit if you personally won't go raw.

[OctyB]

@thrivesurvive I wish more people would realize this, It seems like, people who are even dying won't change their diet. WOW! Keep spreading the love!

[hsmbadboi08]

@thrivesurvive not all raw produce is best for you... carrots for example are easier to digest when steamed or boiled. They're also other produce like carrots that mixed w/ lipids (fats) make it easier to digest as well. Basically what im saying is eating foods that are lightly cooked isnt a bad thing!

[EnviroMonster]

Keep it simple and healthy.

[GardenGirltv]

This channel is sooooo good!