So last night I'm settling down to watch The Daily Show on More4 (British digital channel that provides a refuge from the incessant Big Brother coverage on the other channel 4 stations), but find it's been replaced by a documentary on people who only eat raw fruit and vegetables. The remote's out of arm's reach, so I decide to watch anyway.
There was a couple who started on the diet after trying an 'enema holiday', and now have twice-daily enemas as well as eating only raw, unprocessed fruit and vegetables. Leaving aside the fact that squirting coffee up your poop-chute every morning is hardly natural, my skepty-sense started tingling when he also revealed that he had to wear various devices which blocked electromagnetic radiation for his job in a mixing studio. The devices operated on quantum mechanics, he said, but sadly didn't have time to go into how they worked.
They also featured a mother of two who only fed her children raw fruit and veg. The children were schooled at home (presumably so they wouldn't any other types of food at school), and had virtually no friends, since they couldn't go to another kids house for dinner, etc. She claimed that cooked or processed foods were 'poisonous', since cooking them 'altered the molecular structure' of the food, and destroyed enzymes, which the body needed.
I have a smattering of physics, so I know the EM blocking doo-dad is nonsensical, along with the alteration of molecular structure, but my biology is a bit rusty. Am I right in thinking that the enzyme claim is so much loose-stool water because the enzymes in, say, a carrot are completely useless for a human? Are there any health risks for a growing child fed only raw fruit and veg? If so, is this child abuse?
I was also a bit concerned that all the nonsense claims on the program went unchallenged, with no scientific viewpoint countering the many false claims (and I've only scratched the surface here) made in the show. It may have been that the show's producers were trusting the audience's intelligence to recognize when an utterance such as 'when we eat only raw food our cells are literally evolving' were a load of arse-gravy.
Although I have to admit, the quantum-mechanics-EM-blocking-amulet wearing guy did look good for his age. But if a raw food diet leads to me flouncing around in sandals and a white shirt open to the navel, I think I'd rather die young and fat, quite frankly.
Anyone else see it? It may be on 4od, I can't check from work.
There was a couple who started on the diet after trying an 'enema holiday', and now have twice-daily enemas as well as eating only raw, unprocessed fruit and vegetables. Leaving aside the fact that squirting coffee up your poop-chute every morning is hardly natural, my skepty-sense started tingling when he also revealed that he had to wear various devices which blocked electromagnetic radiation for his job in a mixing studio. The devices operated on quantum mechanics, he said, but sadly didn't have time to go into how they worked.
They also featured a mother of two who only fed her children raw fruit and veg. The children were schooled at home (presumably so they wouldn't any other types of food at school), and had virtually no friends, since they couldn't go to another kids house for dinner, etc. She claimed that cooked or processed foods were 'poisonous', since cooking them 'altered the molecular structure' of the food, and destroyed enzymes, which the body needed.
I have a smattering of physics, so I know the EM blocking doo-dad is nonsensical, along with the alteration of molecular structure, but my biology is a bit rusty. Am I right in thinking that the enzyme claim is so much loose-stool water because the enzymes in, say, a carrot are completely useless for a human? Are there any health risks for a growing child fed only raw fruit and veg? If so, is this child abuse?
I was also a bit concerned that all the nonsense claims on the program went unchallenged, with no scientific viewpoint countering the many false claims (and I've only scratched the surface here) made in the show. It may have been that the show's producers were trusting the audience's intelligence to recognize when an utterance such as 'when we eat only raw food our cells are literally evolving' were a load of arse-gravy.
Although I have to admit, the quantum-mechanics-EM-blocking-amulet wearing guy did look good for his age. But if a raw food diet leads to me flouncing around in sandals and a white shirt open to the navel, I think I'd rather die young and fat, quite frankly.
Anyone else see it? It may be on 4od, I can't check from work.
