Food Matters
2008 · Movie · 74 min · ★ 6.7 · 76% critics
This documentary argues that modern diets and chemical additives are making people sicker, while society leans too heavily on pharmaceuticals. It questions the motives of a massive global health industry and promotes nutrition-focused, “natural” approaches and lifestyle changes as ways to prevent and address illness.
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Streaming on Food Matters TV and Gaia.
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Details
- Years
- 2008
- Release date
- 2010-10-08
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 74 min
- Critic score
- 76/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (49 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy provocative health documentaries that challenge mainstream medicine and push diet-based solutions, similar to Hungry for Change; Not for you if you want cautious, consensus-backed advice or dislike controversial claims.
Pros: thought-provoking health perspective; encourages whole foods; raises industry questions | Cons: disputed scientific claims; one-sided arguments; messy topic jumps
Themes
- medicine
- health
- cancer
- food
- pharmacology
- vegan
- nutrition
- veganism
- whole foods
Cast & crew
Andrew Saul
as Self / Therapeutic Nutrition Specialist and Author
- CG
Charlotte Gerson
as Self / Founder of the Gerson Institute
- DR
Dan Rogers
as Self / Medical Doctor and Naturopathic Doctor
David Wolfe
as Self / "world authority on raw foods and superfoods"
- IB
Ian Brighthope
as Self / Professor of Nutritional an Environmental Medicine
- JB
Jerome Burne
as Self / Medical Journalist and Author
- PD
Phillip Day
as Self / Investigative Journalist and Author
- VZ
Victor Zeines
as Self / Holistic Dentist and Nutritionist
Directed by James Colquhoun