Simply Raw Movie Review

I finally got hold of the documentary film Simply Raw last week. It had previously been traillered as ‘Raw for 30 Days’ and attratced a lot of interest on YouTube.com.
The film charts the progress of six diabetics as they adopt a raw food, low sugar diet for 30 days. The results are remarkable.

The film is well produced and although it’s been made as unabashed raw food promotion honestly charts some of the power of eating in a very healthy way. For a sequel, perhaps they could take people with a range of illnesses, mental and physical, and place them on a raw diet for longer. I suspect, again, the results would be eye-opening.
In Simply Raw some of the patients are not just taking shots of insulin, but a complete pharmacy of drugs to regulate their illness. Gabriel Cousens MD, the Doc in charge of the show, gets them off this cocktail in a matter of moments. One chap was on 19 pills and came off them all.
That’s 19 products no longer being sold by a drugs company. Selling sickness is good for business.

As the story plays out, talking heads appear to offer their opinions on food. There’s Woody Harrelson, there’s Morgan Spurlock of Supersize Me fame sporting a groovy beard, and there’s David Wolfe (breathlessly making up cod-spiritual quotable-quotes off the top of his head) and husky-voiced Tony Robbins, the king of stateside mega-gurus and a cool Reverand with braided hair. They add a lot of the movie, and a give a sense of the growing scale of the living foods movement.

The same production team also sell a 2-disc set called Raw for Life. I ordered this too, and although experienced raw fans will know most of it already, it’s still compelling.