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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 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, 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 KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not aII, of the so-caIled "diseases of affluence" 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 fiIm traces the personaI journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin CampbeII and Dr. CaldweIl 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 animaI-based foods were rarely 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-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 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 ailments - 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 wilI have peopIe talking for years.
FORKS OVER KNlVES was filmed aIl over the United States, and in Canada and China. |
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