Beautiful Truth
“The mainstream medical community will hate Steve Kroschel’s film, but The Beautiful Truth should make everyone else think hard about their healthcare options.”
The Beautiful Truth
Garrett is a 15-year old boy living in the Alaskan wilderness with a menagerie of orphaned animals. Growing up close with nature has given him a deep understanding of nutritional needs required by diet sensitive animals on the reserve. Unfortunately, the untimely and tragic death of his mother propelled him into a downward spiral and he risked flunking out of school. This led to his father’s decision to home-school Garrett. His first assignment was to study a controversial book written by Dr. Max Gerson.
Written over 50 years ago, Dr. Gerson found that diet could, and did, cure cancer. Controversial at the time (and even today), Garrett took on the challenge of researching this amazing therapy, which drew the interest of his neighbors in the small Alaskan community. With the help of Dr. Gerson’s daughter, Charlotte Gerson, and grandson, Howard Straus, they gave him the ammunition needed to go in search for the truth – a truth that would affect not only him, but his entire Alaskan village – all of whom wanted to know if these claims were true. After a number of cancer patients, who were diagnosed as terminal, shared their stories and their medical records with Garrett, it became abundantly clear that, contrary to the disinformation campaign spear-headed by the multi-billion dollar medical and pharmaceutical industry, a cure for virtually all cancers and chronic diseases does exist – and has existed for over 80 years!
QUOTES FROM THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY
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“I see in Dr. Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine.”
- Dr. Albert Schweitzer – Nobel Laureate
“…no diet has ever been shown to cure cancer.”
- Barrie Cassileth, PhD (American Cancer Society Spokesperson 2007)
“Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud and that the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.”
- Linus Pauling, PhD – Nobel Laureate
“There have been many cancer cures and all have been ruthlessly and systematically suppressed with a Gestapo-like thoroughness by the cancer establishment…”
- Robert C. Atkins, M.D.
“…we have never fought the homeopath on matters of principle. We fought him because he came into our community and got the business.”
- Dr. J.N. McCormack, AMA, 1903
“The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day.”
- Herbert Lay, Former Commissioner of the FDA
“Remember there are worse things than death; one of them is chemotherapy.”
- Charles Huggins, M.D. – Nobel laureate
Film Review: The Beautiful Truth
An unusual and sobering documentary which turns conventional wisdom about health matters on its head.
Nov 18, 2008
-By Eric Monder
The mainstream medical community will hate Steve Kroschel’s film, but The Beautiful Truth should make everyone else think hard about their healthcare options. Kroschel’s matter-of-fact approach lends credence to his arguments.
Playing off the title An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s hit environmental documentary, The Beautiful Truth also explores the interrelatedness of wellness and the environment. In Kroschel’s narrative, an Alaskan teenager named Garrett (the director’s son) seeks to discover why his mother died tragically young and learns some alarming facts.
When Garrett’s father gives him a decades-old book by Dr. Max Gerson, which contends there is a link between diet and a cure for cancer, the boy decides to find out more about Gerson and his theories. He embarks on a cross-country journey, meeting scientists, doctors and cancer survivors. What Garrett concludes is that there has been a wholesale cover-up of the multi-billion-dollar medical and pharmaceutical industries’ efforts to foist drugs on society that are either of little help or downright harmful. Garrett’s hometown benefits from his wisdom and develops new ways of curing diseases, while the boy plans to tell the world about the Gerson Therapy.
Implementing the deadpan-style humor of Michael Moore, Steve Kroschel probes his topic with a healthy sense of irony and wonder. Recognizing that angry muckraking would turn off most viewers, he smartly uses the questioning but relatively innocent Garrett as his “stand-in.”
It is fascinating to hear about the evils of fluoride (after years of being told how good it is) and the impact of MSG and aspartame on brain cancer. Either The Beautiful Truth will shock you or confirm your worst suspicions, and even the skeptical will want to find out more on their own. The film’s technical credits are above-average.
One of the better documentaries to be released this year (or at least one of the more important ones), The Beautiful Truth is a must-see.
http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/reviews/specialty-releases/e3i2dd2f2ead332946a80eca22aad7adc37
Written over 50 years ago, Dr. Gerson found that diet could, and did, cure cancer. Controversial at the time (and even today), Garrett took on the challenge of researching this amazing therapy, which drew the interest of his neighbors in the small Alaskan community. With the help of Dr. Gerson’s daughter, Charlotte Gerson, and grandson, Howard Straus, they gave him the ammunition needed to go in search for the truth – a truth that would affect not only him, but his entire Alaskan village – all of whom wanted to know if these claims were true. After a number of cancer patients, who were diagnosed as terminal, shared their stories and their medical records with Garrett, it became abundantly clear that, contrary to the disinformation campaign spear-headed by the multi-billion dollar medical and pharmaceutical industry, a cure for virtually all cancers and chronic diseases does exist – and has existed for over 80 years!
QUOTES FROM THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY
________________________________________
“I see in Dr. Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine.”
- Dr. Albert Schweitzer – Nobel Laureate
“…no diet has ever been shown to cure cancer.”
- Barrie Cassileth, PhD (American Cancer Society Spokesperson 2007)
“Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud and that the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.”
- Linus Pauling, PhD – Nobel Laureate
“There have been many cancer cures and all have been ruthlessly and systematically suppressed with a Gestapo-like thoroughness by the cancer establishment…”
- Robert C. Atkins, M.D.
“…we have never fought the homeopath on matters of principle. We fought him because he came into our community and got the business.”
- Dr. J.N. McCormack, AMA, 1903
“The thing that bugs me is that people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day.”
- Herbert Lay, Former Commissioner of the FDA
“Remember there are worse things than death; one of them is chemotherapy.”
- Charles Huggins, M.D. – Nobel laureate
Film Review: The Beautiful Truth
An unusual and sobering documentary which turns conventional wisdom about health matters on its head.
Nov 18, 2008
-By Eric Monder
The mainstream medical community will hate Steve Kroschel’s film, but The Beautiful Truth should make everyone else think hard about their healthcare options. Kroschel’s matter-of-fact approach lends credence to his arguments.
Playing off the title An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s hit environmental documentary, The Beautiful Truth also explores the interrelatedness of wellness and the environment. In Kroschel’s narrative, an Alaskan teenager named Garrett (the director’s son) seeks to discover why his mother died tragically young and learns some alarming facts.
When Garrett’s father gives him a decades-old book by Dr. Max Gerson, which contends there is a link between diet and a cure for cancer, the boy decides to find out more about Gerson and his theories. He embarks on a cross-country journey, meeting scientists, doctors and cancer survivors. What Garrett concludes is that there has been a wholesale cover-up of the multi-billion-dollar medical and pharmaceutical industries’ efforts to foist drugs on society that are either of little help or downright harmful. Garrett’s hometown benefits from his wisdom and develops new ways of curing diseases, while the boy plans to tell the world about the Gerson Therapy.
Implementing the deadpan-style humor of Michael Moore, Steve Kroschel probes his topic with a healthy sense of irony and wonder. Recognizing that angry muckraking would turn off most viewers, he smartly uses the questioning but relatively innocent Garrett as his “stand-in.”
It is fascinating to hear about the evils of fluoride (after years of being told how good it is) and the impact of MSG and aspartame on brain cancer. Either The Beautiful Truth will shock you or confirm your worst suspicions, and even the skeptical will want to find out more on their own. The film’s technical credits are above-average.
One of the better documentaries to be released this year (or at least one of the more important ones), The Beautiful Truth is a must-see.
http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/reviews/specialty-releases/e3i2dd2f2ead332946a80eca22aad7adc37
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 11.26.08 - 12.04.08
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