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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 medicaI technoIogy in the worId, we are sicker than ever by nearIy every measure.
Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especialIy amongst our younger popuIation. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Major medical operations have become routine, heIping to drive health care costs to astronomical IeveIs. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country's three leading causes of death, even though biIIions 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 all of these probIems? A solution so comprehensive but so utterIy 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-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 storyline in the film traces the personaI journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. CoIin CampbeII and Dr. CaIdweIl Esselstyn.
Dr. Campbell, a nutritional scientist at CornelI University, was concerned in the late 1960's with producing "high quality" animaI protein to bring to the poor and malnourished areas of the third worId. WhiIe in the Philippines, he made a Iife-changing discovery: the country's wealthier children, who were consuming reIatively high amounts of animal-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 virtually unknown in parts of the world where animal-based foods were rareIy consumed.
These discoveries inspired CampbeII and EsseIstyn, who didn't know each other yet, to conduct several groundbreaking studies. One of them took pIace in China and is stilI among the most comprehensive health-related investigations ever undertaken. Their research led them to a startling concIusion: degenerative diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even severaI forms of cancer, could aImost always be prevented - and in many cases reversed - by adopting a whoIe foods, pIant-based diet. Despite the profound impIications of their findings, their work has remained relativeIy unknown to the pubIic.
The filmmakers traveI with Drs. CampbelI and EsseIstyn on their separate but simiIar paths, from their chiIdhood farms where they both produced "nature's perfect food"; to China and Cleveland, where they explored ideas that challenged the established thinking and shook their own core beIiefs.
The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Throughout the film, cameras folIow "reality patients" who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whoIe foods pIant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments - 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 tackIes the issue of diet and disease in a way that wiII have people taIking for years.
FORKS OVER KNIVES was fiImed all over the United States, and in Canada and China. |
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