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Truths about Health: An Introduction
by David Curtis
Most of the prayer requests that you hear in the church today are for what? With out a doubt they are for physical healing. This is a major prayer request because we all want to be healthy. Would you agree with that? But the sad truth is that most Christians take better care of their homes, lawns, and cars than they do their bodies.
Let’s say that a Christian that we knew was slowly poisoning themselves with arsenic. As they continued to get sicker and sicker, they would constantly request prayer for their ill condition. How would you respond to their prayer request? You might say, “You idiot, you’re poisoning yourself, and then asking us to pray that you would feel better.” This may be an extreme illustration, but I think it illustrates the point. We can’t keep putting things into our bodies that are harmful for them, and then asking God to make us healthy. If you want to be healthy, stop eating things that are harmful to you.
Let me try to explain. I believe that the main factor in poor health is a poor diet. We are literally making ourselves sick through inactivity and poor diet. If we have a stewardship to the planet, which I believe we do, we certainly have one to our physical bodies. We are to be good stewards of the bodies God gave us. READ MORE...
Healthy Hints
Each Sunday morning, as part of the service, Berean Bible Church offers a short introduction to some aspect of living more healthy. Here are some of the past segments. Click the full screen button in bottom right hand corner to better view:
Full-length Documentary Movies Worth Watching
When we first added this page to our site, most of these movies were free to view online. Now many are totally removed from offline, and others are there for a rental fee. If you subscribed to movie networks like Netflix, Amazon Primes, Hulu, etc. you may find some of these available there too.
Foodmatters
"Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food." -- Hippocrates
That's the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film 'Food Matters' from first-time Producer-Directors James Colqhuoun and Laurentine ten Bosch.
And in what promises to be the most contentious idea put forward, the filmmakers have interviewed several world leaders in nutrition and natural healing who claim that not only are we harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but that the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer. WATCH A CLIP FREE ONLINE NOW or visit FoodMatters.tv
Dying to Have Know
Documentary filmmaker Stephen Kroschel asks whether the long-suppressed form of cancer treatment known as Gerson Therapy could truly be as effective as some cancer survivors claim in this film that offers a wide array of testimonies from medical specialists, health experts, and patients. More than seventy five years after being proven to cure degenerative disease, Gerson Therapy is still virtually unknown to the masses - but why? In order to seek out an answer to this question, Kroschel travels across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, across the United States, and through Japan, Holland, and Mexico to speak with a wide variety of scientists, nutritionists, surgeons, and patients who have witnessed the powerful effects of Gerson Therapy firsthand.
The Beautiful Truth
A troubled 15-year-old boy attempting to cope with the recent death of his mother sets out to research Dr. Max Gerson's claims of a diet that can cure cancer as his first assignment for home-schooling in this documentary from filmmaker Steve Kroschel (Avalanche, Dying to Have Known). Garrett is a boy who has always been close to nature. He lives on a reserve with a menagerie of orphaned animals, and over the years he's become especially sensitive to the nutritional needs of the diet-sensitive animals he's charged with caring for. When Garrett's mother suffers a tragic and untimely death, the boy falls into a dangerous downward spiral and nearly flunks out of school. Increasingly concerned for Garrett's well-being and determined to strengthen their bond despite the many challenges on the horizon, his father makes the decision to begin home-schooling the distressed teen. Garrett's first assignment: study a controversial book written by Dr. Max Gerson, a physician who claims to have discovered a diet that's capable of curing cancer. Is Dr. Gerson's therapy truly the legitimate, alternative cure it appears to be? In order to find out the truth behind this long-suppressed treatment, Garrett interviews not only Dr. Gerson's family members, but various doctors, skeptics, and cancer patients as well. His studies completed and his findings revelatory, Garrett now sets out to tell the entire world about The Gerson Miracle.
The Gerson Miracle
In this documentary from filmmaker Steve Kroschel, noted MD Max Gerson reveals a nutritional healing treatment that he claims can restore the body's ability to fight off cancer and numerous other degenerative diseases. The testimonies of a few "incurable" cancer patients highlight why this long-term cure could be much more effective than many of Dr. Gerson's critics may care to admit.
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead
Overweight Australian filmmaker Joe Cross attempts to wrestle back control of his failing health during a cross-country trek in which he engages everyday Americans in discussions about food and obesity in this lighthearted documentary addressing a deadly serious subject. Clocking in at 310 pounds and pumped full of steroids to battle a debilitating autoimmune disorder, Cross realized that he would soon be dead if he didn't make some major lifestyle changes. But pharmaceuticals were only treating his symptoms, and no doctor seemed capable of providing the long-term care and support it would take to turn his life around. Desperate, Cross loads up his car with a juicer and a generator, and pledges to survive on nothing but fresh fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days. Not long after his journey begins, Cross quickly realizes that he's well on his way to ending his growing dependence on prescription drugs. His body has begun to heal itself, and as the process continues, Cross attempts to prove just how empowering it can be to take responsibility for our own health. WATCH ONLINE NOW
Forks Over Knives
Documentary filmmaker Lee Fulkerson explores the possibility that so-called "diseases of affluence," such as heart disease, can be reversed by simply adjusting our diets to include less processed and animal-based foods. Back in the 1960s, Cornell University nutritional scientist Dr. T. Colin Campbell was working to find a way to feed the citizens of impoverished Third World nations when a trip to the Philippines forever changed the way he thought about food consumption. There, he discovered that the rates of liver cancer among affluent children who subsisted on diets rich in animal-based foods were notably higher than in children consuming plant-based diets. Meanwhile, surgeon Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at Cleveland Clinic, was also discovering that many of the diseases he was seeing in patients were practically nonexistent in areas of the world where people were primarily consuming plant foods. Several subsequent investigations by the researchers (who would not meet each other until the 1980s), including a groundbreaking study in China by Dr. Campbell, led them to the revelation that a whole-food, plant-based diet could prevent, and even reverse, such degenerative conditions as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some forms of cancer. In this film, Fulkerson examines Dr. Campbell's and Dr. Esselstyn's theories by following the two doctors' individual, yet very similar, story arcs, from their farm-based upbringings to their astounding discoveries. The film also records the experiences of a group of patients suffering from chronic maladies as they participate in an experiment in which their diets are substantially altered and wholesome, plant-based food is, essentially, used as medicine. WATCH ONLINE NOW
Food, Inc.
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner uses reports by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and The Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan as a springboard to exploring where the food we purchase at the grocery store really comes from, and what it means for the health of future generations. By exposing the comfortable relationships between business and government, Kenner gradually shines light on the dark underbelly of the American food industry. The USDA and FDA are supposed to protect the public, so why is it that both government regulatory agencies have been complicit in allowing corporations to put profit ahead of consumer health, the American farmer, worker safety, and even the environment? As chicken breasts get bigger and tomatoes are genetically engineered not to go bad, 73,000 Americans fall ill from powerful new strains of E. coli every year, obesity levels are skyrocketing, and adult diabetes has reached epidemic proportions. Perhaps if the general public knew how corporations use exploited laws and subsidies to create powerful monopolies, the outrage would be enough to make us think more carefully about the food we put into our bodies. WATCH ONLINE NOW
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VIDEOS
Dr. Mercola Reveals Crucial Information About Vitamin D
Internationally renowned natural health physician and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola reveals crucial information you need to know about vitamin D3, such as optimizing your levels through sunlight exposure and many more.
You can get it from the sun, from a pill or in your food, and it can save your life.
Wheat: The UNhealthy Whole Grain
The wheat of today is not the wheat of our mothers or grandmothers. Modern wheat is the product of genetic manipulations that have transformed its properties. Modern wheat is now a 2-foot tall, high-yield semi-dwarf strain, different in both appearance and multiple biochemical features from traditional wheat. Introduction of this new strain of wheat was associated with the appearance of a long list of health problems, along with weight gain and diabetes. According to Dr. Davis, saying goodbye to all things wheat provides outsized and unexpected health benefits, from weight loss, to relief from acid reflux and bowel urgency, to reversal of diabetes, migraine headaches, and learning disabilities in children.
Conversation with Charlotte Gerson
89-year-old Charlotte Gerson, Max Gerson's (who founded the Gerson Institute in 1977) daughter, sat down with the Live Foods, Live Bodies team and JayKordich.com to tell us how to be healthy into your 80s, 90s, and even 100s. This video contains fascinating 48-minutes of great information and perspective from someone who has dedicated her life to helping others overcome serious illness. Gain valuable knowledge by watching this interview conducted in 2011.
Max Awareness Productions presents this film by Marcus & Sabrina Freudenmann from Wake-Up TV featuring Charlotte Gerson, Tom Tolman and a host of other professionals to expose the causes, issues, and solutions to the cancer issue.
The 20-minute workout that yields amazing results. Join internationally renowned natural health physician and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola as he discusses the research behind the Peak 8 workout and its effects with its creator, Phil Campbell.
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Dr. Mercola's site and email newsletter is full of valuable information. Yes, he also promotes and sells products, but if that does not interest you, the information he provides is well worth signing up for the email news.
Home of the "Food Matters" movie, but also contains more information and resources for restoring healthy living. Sign up for their email news.
With a mission to educate people how to preserve their health and vitality, her purpose is to help anyone who desires to be well to understand how to have vibrant health. Bonnie is a member of the Berean Live community.