Kip Anderson’s Message in What The Health Documentary

In the documentary “What the health” by Kip Anderson, Kip investigates why the nation’s leading health organizations recommend foods that can cause a health issues such as cancer. Kip Anderson questions what these organizations are hiding after receiving no answer when he questions why they are recommending foods that can cause health issues.

Kip Anderson informs the audience by telling them that diabetes is not caused by sugar but instead fat in diets is the main cause. In the documentary one of the physicians and researcher Kip interviews named Dr. Neal Barnard states that, ‘Diabetes is not and never was caused by eating a high carbohydrate diet, and it is not caused by eating sugar. The cause of diabetes is a diet that builds up the amount of fat into the blood.” In fact, sugar is not harmful to the body. As discussed in class, sugar is beneficial. Sugar is stored as glycogen and not fat. Dr Neal then continues to state that, “You can look into the muscle cells of the human body, and you find they’re building up tiny particles of fat which is causing insulin resistance. What that means is the sugar that is naturally from the foods that you’re eating can’t get into the cells where it belongs. It builds up in the blood and that is diabetes.’ Basically, depending on one’s diet the build up of fat inside a person blood can disrupted the function of sugar. The fat blocks the sugar from being absorbed and used as energy source. With the fats blocking sugar the sugar will remain in the blood stream which will cause diabetes. As stated in class diabetes can be a chronic disease. Diabetes can be caused excessive amount of sugar found in the blood. The documentary shows how one’s diet can cause diabetes and how people misunderstand the real cause of it.

Kip Anderson also mentions that processed meat can lead to cancer. He wants to know why people are not talking about this. Health organization are claiming to put out helpful information for people that can help with their health. They provide “healthy” recipes for them to include in their diet. But the World Health Organization states otherwise. They state that consuming meat can be the same as smoking cigarettes. They classify processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen that can be seen to be in the same group as cigarettes, asbestos, and plutonium. The scary part that they mentioned in the documentary is since meats is in the same category as cigarettes it can be seen like giving young children cigarettes every day.

In my opinion I believe that organization shouldn’t be giving out false information. An organization suppose to help and give information to help those who are suffering with issues like cancer and heart diseases. As stated in the documentary, Kip noticed that large health organizations only cared about the money and they were taking money from food brands that are not good such as fast food restaurants. The money was from meat and dairy companies that are associated with the causes of these diseases Anyone can be influenced by money and it shouldn’t be like this for organizations that have people lives in their hands. Organization shouldn’t be thinking about money. Money should be the least of their problem. As an organization their job is too informed people with the correct information to live a better lifestyle.

In conclusion, Kip Anderson gets his point across that health organization are not always telling the truth. They give out false information because they are under the controlled by money.

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