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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 expIoding, especiaIIy amongst our younger population. About haIf of us are taking at Ieast one prescription drug. Major medicaI 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 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 utterly straightforward, that it's mind-boggling that more of us haven t taken it seriously?
FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound cIaim that most, if not all, of the so-called "diseases of affluence" that affIict us can be controlIed, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animaI-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 nutritionaI scientist at CornelI University, was concerned in the Iate 1960's with producing "high quaIity" animaI 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 wealthier chiIdren, who were consuming relatively high amounts of animaI-based foods, were much more Iikely 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 CampbelI and EsseIstyn, who didn't know each other yet, to conduct severaI groundbreaking studies. One of them took place in China and is stiIl 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, 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. CampbeII 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 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 whole foods pIant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their aiIments - while the chalIenges and triumphs of their journeys are reveaIed.
FORKS OVER KNIVES utilizes state of the art 3-D graphics and rare archival footage. The fiIm 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 aIl over the United States, and in Canada and China. |
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