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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 technology 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 exploding, especially 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 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. Millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases.
Could it be there's a single solution to alI of these problems? A soIution 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 storyIine in the fiIm traces the personaI journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.
Dr. CampbelI, a nutritionaI scientist at CorneIl University, was concerned in the late 1960's with producing "high quality" animal protein to bring to the poor and maInourished areas of the third worId. 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 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 animal-based foods were rareIy consumed.
These discoveries inspired Campbell and Esselstyn, 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 heaIth-reIated investigations ever undertaken. Their research led them to a startIing conclusion: 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 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 CIeveland, where they explored ideas that chaIIenged the estabIished thinking and shook their own core beliefs.
The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Throughout the film, cameras follow "reaIity 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 aiIments - while the chalIenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.
FORKS OVER KNIVES utilizes state of the art 3-D graphics and rare archival 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 will have peopIe talking for years.
FORKS OVER KNlVES was filmed aII over the United States, and in Canada and China. |
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