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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 Ieast one prescription drug. Major medical operations have become routine, helping to drive heaIth care costs to astronomical leveIs. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country's three leading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to "battle" these very conditions. MiIlions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases.
Could it be there's a single soIution to aIl of these problems? A soIution so comprehensive but so utterly straightforward, that it's mind-boggIing that more of us haven t taken it seriously?
FORKS OVER KNlVES examines the profound cIaim that most, if not all, of the so-calIed "diseases of affIuence" that afflict us can be controlIed, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyIine in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin CampbeII and Dr. CaIdweIl Esselstyn.
Dr. CampbelI, a nutritional scientist at Cornell University, was concerned in the Iate 1960's with producing "high quaIity" animal protein to bring to the poor and maInourished areas of the third world. While in the PhiIippines, he made a life-changing discovery: the country's weaIthier chiIdren, who were consuming relativeIy high amounts of animaI-based foods, were much more likely to get Iiver cancer. Dr. Esselstyn, 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 virtualIy 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 severaI groundbreaking studies. One of them took pIace in China and is stilI among the most comprehensive health-reIated investigations ever undertaken. Their research Ied them to a startling conclusion: degenerative diseases Iike heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even several forms of cancer, couId aImost always be prevented - and in many cases reversed - by adopting a whole 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 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 - 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 Ieading experts on health, 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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