Food Matters At Vaughn

A provocative documentary, “Food Matters,” will be shown in Ashland at the Vaughn Public Library on Wed., Feb. 15 at 6 p.m.

The film’s topic is health and what the filmmakers call a worldwide sickness industry. 

Nutritionists-turned-filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosh produced the movie, which is based on a potentially startling message: that chronic illness can be prevented, arrested, and even reversed.

“This film will shatter the belief fed to us by modern medicine that there is ‘a pill for every ill,’” said Colquhoun.  “We’re not suggesting that pharmaceutical drugs don’t have their place, we’re saying that our overburdened health care practitioners perhaps do not have the time to educate people about alternative treatments and healthy living.”

The filmmakers also suggest that simple lifestyle changes individuals make can help reverse increased levels of serious illness.  Conditions covered in the film include depression, obesity, alcoholism, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and others.

Aiming to step in where Michael Moore’s attack on the American health care system in “Sicko” stopped short, Colquhoun and ten Bosch say they hope “Food Matters” will educate people about ways to prevent sickness, rather than rely on a system already in crisis to treat symptoms once sickness takes hold.

“If we can help people become more aware of the choices available to them, they can start to reduce their reliance on the ‘sickness industry,’” explained Colquhoun. “It’s about education, not just medication.  With access to solid information, people invariably make good choices for their health.”

The Vaughn Public Library and the Chequamegon Food Co-op are partnering to show this film.