What The Health

What The Health

The documentary film “What is Health” critiques the health impact of meat and other daily products consumption. It advocates for the plant-based diet. It focuses on how diets affects our health and environment, as well as how food industries, businesses, and public policies affects what we consume. It argues that hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities do little for diabetes patients. It gives examples of patients living in the united states and other countries in the world. The films examine the relationship between diet and diseases. The movie thesis is, patients who go vegan for two weeks are able to cure a great deal of their signs and systems of diabetes.

The film uncovers the consequences of highly processed industrial animal food to individual health and the greater community. It also explores why leading health organizations promote these foods despite the many medical types of research and studies that show their harmful effect on people’s health. The movie begins with the Chief Medical Officer for the American Diabetes Association, Dr Robert Ratner, researching the number of diabetic patients in the world (Time). He finds out that there are 350 million people with diseases all over the world (Netflix). He, then researches how many dollars the government spends on the people with diabetes. He finds out that a third of the Medicare dollars go to the people with diabetes. He also finds out that one of every ten healthcare dollars are spent on diabetes patients. Considering the number of individuals in the world with diabetes, this is a lot of money that the government spends on diabetic patients.

According to the film, processed meat and dairy products are the primary causes of diabetes but not sugar. The buildup of fats in the blood causes insulin resistance and prevents sugar from getting into the cell. Consuming one serving of processed meat increases the risk of developing diabetes by 51% (Netflix).  Dr. Neal Barnard argues that “diabetes id not and never was caused by eating a high carbohydrates diet, and it is not caused by eating sugar”.

The director achieves his purpose by doing the things he needs to do for his goals. The director goes to almost every health website to see what it recommends to people with diabetes to eat. He then goes to health care and asks why they are recommending these bad foods for people with diabetes.

One strength of What the Health film is that it gives significant information about health and the best diet to eat. The viewer can learn that importance of a vegetarian diet in reducing the chronic diseases. The medicine from the hospital only helps for a short period while diet helps for a lifetime. Another strength of the film is that it gives examples to prove that being a vegetarian is healthier than using medicine. In the movie, there is an expert who testifies that sugar does not play a role in diabetes development.

The weakness of this film is that it is full of hallmarks of lousy communication on scientific studies. Multiple studies should be conducted to conclude. Secondly, the film is biased against meat and dairy products. There is a lot of sway from the vegans. The film pushes the agenda of pro-vegetarian and pro-vegan rather than centring around the health topic. Besides, the film cites studies and doctors who are biased too. The film also lacks legitimacy. Only the vegans are interviewed who makes claims against the meat and dairy products. Actually, most of the interviewee does not have sound science behind whatever they say. The filmmakers are just taking advantage of the emotions of people to sway them towards the veganism. Further, the filmmaker did not get all the answers that he wanted regarding food on health websites. For instance, whenever he asked why some of these sites some recommended a particular type of food, most did not have a definite answer. They just said they were classified (Netflix).

My overall response is that the film is a good and long movie. I have learned various ways to be healthy. For instance, I now know the importance of including vegetables in my diet. I have also learned that I should not always trust the health websites and the food they recommend. There are many websites and online business that are recommending processed food, which poses a high risk of getting chronic diseases.

I find this movie to be interesting because it tells of the foods that I should eat to be healthy. I find the argument that vegetables are better in curing illness than medicine to be interesting. Also, I got to know that diabetes is not caused by eating a high amount of sugar or carbohydrates. I have also learned that are about 3000 people who die annually from the foodborne illness in the United States. Low-fat based diet is more than twice as powerful at controlling and reversing diabetes than the diet recommending meat or dairy products.

This movie relates to my health class because they both focus on how to live a better life. They advocate for the rights things to our bodies. They assert that eating healthy can make one live longer. However, the health class is more detailed in giving information about living a healthy life. It focuses on many diseases, both chronic and acute. It focuses on teaching students about health while the movie targets all individuals in society. It builds on the knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes. Its objectives are teaching students about their physical, mental, emotional, and social health. On the other hand, the movie only shows a sure specific thing about health like drugs, processed meat, and dairy products. The filmmaker argues consuming vegetables can sure illness much better than drugs.

I would recommend this movie to other people especially those suffering from various diseases including diabetes. The film will help them to become better persons in life. It will also help them to realize that eating a plant-based diet is very healthy. Not all animals that we eat are healthy. Further, viewers of this movie can take a lot of advice from it. The filmmakers Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn have gone a great job in seeking the truth. Every person needs to watch this documentary, and they will be amazed by how government influences and controls their lives for the greed of money.

The movie talks about how health cares do nothing useful for people. However, they think they are helping us by giving us unhealthy foods (A.U.M. Films). Their foods create the risk of getting diseases such as cancer. In fact, they place a person at a high risk than smoking. From the movie, animals take about 450 drugs for people to eat. The movie also tells about commercial animals that are largely fed with genetically modified foods (GMO) such as corn and soy.

From the movie, I notice that the filmmaker was determined to find the answers as to why the health cares and etc recommends unhealthy foods that can cause diabetes and cancer. I also notice that the American Cancer Society encourages produced meats, which the films state as bad as smoking cigarettes. Another thing that I notice from the movie is that 25% of the death in the united states are caused by cancer. The information that I have from the World Health Organization (WHO) is that about 17 million people die from cardiovascular diseases. For instance, in 2016, an estimated 17.9 people died from CVDs in 2016. About 75% of these deaths take place in the low- and middle-income countries (World Health Organization n.p) 

In conclusion, the movie is mainly about the importance of staying healthy and having a healthy life. It is important to eat vegetables because it can cure some sickness better than taking medicines to cure something like a headache. The movie plays a significant role in helping individuals feel good healthwise. It relates to the health class because they both focus on how people should live a better life without consuming meat. The biggest weakness of the movie is that the director could not find all the answers to his questions. Overall, What the Health film is a good movie and entertaining to watch.

Work Cited

World Health Organization. "Cardiovascular Diseases (Cvds)". Who.Int, 2019, https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cardiovascular-diseases-(cvds). Accessed 5 May 2019.

A.U.M. Films, A.U.M. "What The Health". What The Health, 2019, http://www.whatthehealthfilm.com/. Accessed 5 May 2019.

Netflix. "What The Health | Netflix". Netflix.Com, 2019, https://www.netflix.com/title/80174177. Accessed 5 May 2019.

Time. "Http://Time.Com". Time, 2019, http://time.com/tag/dietnutrition/.