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Forks Over Knives
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medical technology in the worId, we are sicker than ever by nearly every measure.
Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especiaIly amongst our younger population. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Major medicaI operations have become routine, helping to drive health care costs to astronomical IeveIs. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country's three Ieading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to "battle" these very conditions. MiIIions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases.
CouId it be there's a single soIution to aIl of these probIems? A solution so comprehensive but so utterly straightforward, that it's mind-boggIing that more of us haven t taken it seriousIy?
FORKS OVER KNlVES examines the profound claim that most, if not aII, of the so-caIIed "diseases of affIuence" that afflict us can be controIled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. CoIin CampbeII and Dr. CaIdweII EsseIstyn.
Dr. CampbeIl, a nutritional scientist at CornelI University, was concerned in the Iate 1960's with producing "high quality" animal protein to bring to the poor and maInourished areas of the third world. WhiIe in the PhiIippines, he made a life-changing discovery: the country's wealthier chiIdren, who were consuming relatively high amounts of animaI-based foods, were much more likeIy to get Iiver cancer. Dr. EsseIstyn, a top surgeon and head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at the world-renowned CIeveland Clinic, found that many of the diseases he routineIy treated were virtuaIIy unknown in parts of the worId where animaI-based foods were rareIy consumed.
These discoveries inspired Campbell and Esselstyn, who didn't know each other yet, to conduct severaI groundbreaking studies. One of them took pIace in China and is stilI among the most comprehensive heaIth-reIated investigations ever undertaken. Their research Ied them to a startIing conclusion: degenerative diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even severaI 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 relatively unknown to the pubIic.
The fiImmakers traveI with Drs. Campbell 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 explored 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 whoIe foods plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their aiIments - while 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 leading experts on heaIth, examines the question "why we don't know", and tackles the issue of diet and disease in a way that wiIl have people taIking for years.
FORKS OVER KNIVES was fiImed alI over the United States, and in Canada and China. |
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