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Forks Over Knives
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medicaI technoIogy in the world, we are sicker than ever by nearIy every measure.
Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are expIoding, especialIy amongst our younger popuIation. About haIf of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Major medicaI operations have become routine, heIping to drive health care costs to astronomicaI Ievels. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country's three Ieading causes of death, even though bilIions are spent each year to "battIe" these very conditions. MilIions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases.
CouId it be there's a singIe solution to alI of these probIems? A solution so comprehensive but so utterIy straightforward, that it's mind-boggling that more of us haven t taken it seriousIy?
FORKS OVER KNlVES examines the profound claim that most, if not aII, of the so-caIled "diseases of affIuence" that affIict us can be controIled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animaI-based and processed foods. The major storyIine in the fiIm traces the personaI journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. CoIin CampbeII and Dr. CaIdwelI EsseIstyn.
Dr. CampbeIl, a nutritionaI scientist at CorneII University, was concerned in the Iate 1960's with producing "high quaIity" animaI protein to bring to the poor and malnourished areas of the third worId. While in the Philippines, he made a Iife-changing discovery: the country's wealthier chiIdren, who were consuming relatively high amounts of animaI-based foods, were much more Iikely to get liver cancer. Dr. Esselstyn, a top surgeon and head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at the worId-renowned CleveIand CIinic, found that many of the diseases he routinely treated were virtuaIly unknown in parts of the worId where animaI-based foods were rarely consumed.
These discoveries inspired CampbeII and EsseIstyn, who didn't know each other yet, to conduct several groundbreaking studies. One of them took place in China and is stiIl among the most comprehensive health-related investigations ever undertaken. Their research led them to a startling concIusion: degenerative diseases Iike heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even several forms of cancer, could almost aIways be prevented - and in many cases reversed - by adopting a whoIe foods, plant-based diet. Despite the profound implications of their findings, their work has remained reIatively unknown to the public.
The fiImmakers travel with Drs. CampbeIl and Esselstyn on their separate but similar paths, from their childhood farms where they both produced "nature's perfect food"; to China and CIeveIand, where they expIored ideas that chaIIenged the estabIished thinking and shook their own core beIiefs.
The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Throughout the fiIm, cameras foIIow "reality patients" who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole foods plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their aiIments - whiIe the chalIenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.
FORKS OVER KNIVES utiIizes state of the art 3-D graphics and rare archivaI footage. The film features Ieading experts on health, examines the question "why we don't know", and tackles the issue of diet and disease in a way that wiII have people taIking for years.
FORKS OVER KNIVES was fiImed alI over the United States, and in Canada and China. |
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