Food Matters

On Saturday we signed up for Netflix, so we could watch movies through our Wii. I searched through the documentary section and noticed quite a few that I would like to watch, so last night I began viewing "Food Matters." This documentary focuses on how our nutrition and the food choices we make affect our health and the diseases we get. It focused a lot on cancer, and claimed that even with the billions spent yearly on various types of cancer the incidence rates have not been declining, and instead the medical community considers somone "cured" if they go 5 years cancer free. Ultimately this show is just promoting a healthy diet of primarily raw vegetables and a high dose of vitamins, and claims that the medical community, i.e. doctors and pharmaceutical companies are not advocating for diet changes because there is no money in it, and instead spend all their efforts trying to medicate a problem instead of taking a preventative approach by limiting the amount of processed foods. While I am sure this documentary is not without its biased research, I am quite certain the advocates for this type of living are on to something. If you look at the insidence of cancer in other parts of the world, specifically Asian countries, you will see that they have much lower cancer rates than the U.S. and Western Europe. Since we're all humans and are pretty much made the same way the most logical reason for the discrepancy is diet. Thus, my question to everyone is, do you think the medical profession is really concerned about curing these diseases like cancer and heart disease? I am now skeptical because I personally feel that if people were to eat a raw vegetable diet and exercise regularly the rates of diseases would decrease tremendously. Whether they become obsolete...probably not.