The Truth can be Beautiful

Peter and I watched a new documentary The Beautiful Truth.  It was very informative as well as appalling that the truth and medicine has been co opted by power and money hungry individuals.  (There is one thing that I would preface it with, I think one of my distant family members tried this and he didn't live.  However, I wonder if he did the coffee enemas.  I know that he drank and ate carrots.  I was quite young and not sure what exactly he was doing.)  Did you know that Donald Rumsfeld worked for Searle?  What the nut?  Why the heck was he the Secretary of War or whatever if he was in the pharmaceutical industry?  Seems backassward to me.  And he was the head when they developed aspartame.  Now I'm unhappy.  Seems they pushed that puppy through. 

Okay, the first point.  Dental health is important.  The filling amalgam that dentists use has MERCURY in it.  When we saw that the amalgam continues to emit mercury vapor for at least 50 years Peter just about had a heart attack.  He opened his mouth and I was just about blinded by the silver it contains.  So now he wants to get his fillings removed.  So if anybody knows a dentist qualified and willing to remove them he would be most appreciative.  According to this film if a dentist is willing to do this he will be run out of the business and be sued.  Now here is where is gets really crazy.  A study was done on the dental techs in Norway and most of those young women in the study ended up with fertility problems as well as other problems.  So don't let your teeth get to the place where fillings are needed.   

I'm just going to lump the other points together because I really think the film is worth watching by everybody.  The second point was deficiency.  The processed foods we eat routinely aren't giving us the nutrition we need.  DUH!  What is worse is that MSG is in almost all of them.  They call them glutamate.  It affects not only how things taste but also turns our brains full sign off.  So it's not just sugar that is the root of our weight problems.  This was where Donald Rumsfeld and his political ilk came in and I have to say I blacked out with anger for a minute.  It seems much of the policy that is made BY BOTH PARTIES is for financial reasons not about the people's health.  

Then there was Dr. Gerson.  I think that my grandfather must have read his book because I can remember him talking about some of this stuff.  Maybe both grandfathers were familiar with his work.  Basically Dr. Gerson said that cancer can be cured by eating a vegan diet for a period of time as well as getting coffee enemas and drinking freshly squeezed carrot juice.  There were many other things that can cured by this as well including autoimmune diseases.  There was plenty of qualitative research to show.  I wonder if there will ever be any quantitative research done on this as a viable was to treat cancer.  That would prove most informative.  

I watched it on Netflicks instant.  Bottom line is that I would definitely suggest this to everyone to see.  I may watch it again sometime.  Who wants to come over for some organic snacks and watch it?

Hiding and Seeking

Hiding and Seeking:Faith and Tolerance After the Holocaust is a documentary that centers around one family in multiple generations. The PBS website has a good explanation of the film, much better than I could explain. But here is a VERY brief explanation of the film. Menachem and his wife, Rifka, take their two sons to Poland to discover the family history as all the grandparents are Holocaust survivors from Poland. A rabbi in Brooklyn has been teaching "hate" on gentiles. Both sons don't agree with the word hate, but don't see anything useful in the world outside their Talmudic studies. Menachem wants his sons to see the "divinity" in other peoples and the world at large.

During their time in Poland they meet the family, including two of the actual people, that hid Rifka's father. He never got in touch with them to say thank you or let them know he was alive.
"For the Daums, the encounter is steeped in unanticipated emotion — and the realization of a long unpaid debt. For the Polish rescuers, there is a kind of wistful reception of visitors long past expected."

The main thoughts that I have been tossing in my mind are about the distrust that has sprung out of the Holocaust by the younger Jews in the family to the larger world. They have the same level of distrust as their grandparents. Did the fear skip a generation? Is it true that grandparents can have that kind of influence over their grandchildren? I can't help but think that because the sons were raised in an insulating culture the words were stronger. They new nothing to contradict what they were told by their grandparents. I know that what my grandparents said, in regards to how they and their families were treated, colored my worldview. I think that it is important that I vote for those who support Israel.

Ultimately the question should be how I think of this as a Christian. Should we, as Christians, spend more time in the world or less?