Food Matters

Food Matters was an eye opening documentary that I viewed on Netflix. I have gotten into these types of documentaries because I am interested in a healthier lifestyle, and my girlfriend is vegan. I too have many food restrictions because of my allergy to lactose, and celiac disease.
     This documentary sheds light on what keeps us alive, food. In the early days of science, most philosophers predicted that eating a healthy diet is the key to a long and healthy life. For most countries, their diet is unhealthy due to lack of food, or an abundance of unhealthy food. Cultures such as Japan eat mainly lean fish and rice. Their diet is the very thing that makes their country have one of the lowest rates of cancer in the world. While America has a diet high in fats and sodium, and suffers from an epidemic of heart disease and various types of cancer.
     I learned many interesting facts and changed my opinion on a few issues concerning food while watching Food Matters. Since my girlfriend is vegan I have heard many "Benefits" to the diet and I agreed with a majority of them. However, there was a section of veganism that i thought was full of crap, the Raw vegans. Why on earth would not cooking food be healthier? Apparently there are quite a few reasons. For starters cooking vegetables kills any enzymes that are living inside it, those enzymes are essential for a healthy body. Also, consuming cooked food weakens the immune system because the body treats cooked food as a type of germ or poison. Cooked food has its chemical make up changed which is why the body does not recognize it, and spends a lot of energy trying to fight off what it doesn't recognize.