David Wolfe looks quiet, but the power of his ideas will shock
you into thinking twice about what you're eating. He's an advocate
for the Raw Food Movement, a ground-breaking branch of alternative
health that's gaining popularity in waves. Which is exactly what it
sounds like: eating raw fruit and veg, and getting rid of the
problematic foods which might be harming you in the long run. He
expresses himself eloquently, using metaphors to explain the more
complicated ideas. Just the possibility he's right is reason enough
to sit up and listen.
He begins with the concept that for a higher life-expectancy, we
need to change our approach to food. He calls it 'nutritional
technology,' and he mentions the that fact we upgrade our cars- our
technology- and we should naturally upgrade how we eat. The idea
that when we're ill, we go to the doctor and then get
over-medicated, over-injected, instead of looking at the source of
the problem: our diet. He's openly cynical towards traditional
medicine, calling our time the Age of Medical Quackery because
doctors don't believe that what we're eating has long-terms affects,
unless it's junk food.
It's an interesting attitude. It's one that's been researched for
years, and one that's so obvious we don't think about it in-depth.
Don't get me wrong, we think about it, just not outside of the
food-fad box. He uses the analogy about how the world's greatest
scientific minds were unable to crack the mystery of the Pyramids.
They were trying too hard, over-complicating. They should have
simplified.
