At the bottom of the page, there’s the knife. For someone like me or probably you who doesn’t need convincing, FOK is an easy watch that will reaffirm your reasons for choosing this diet.
The upside is that this experience can be used as a great learning tool (by virtue of this posting) and it has now made me realize that movie and book reviews will be a great addition to this site. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The average American is a fat and sick, and would be much healthier to ditch all the crap they eat (huge pieces of meat, junk food, etc.) Hi Suzie, if you want an easier read with the same gist, check out the book Skinny Bitch.
Forks Over Knives paints the plant-based diet in a light that makes me proud to be vegan. One of the people I train suggested that I watch the movie Forks Over Knives as it is the basis for his, and many other individuals’ switch to a vegan lifestyle. Earthlings is so powerful…but FOK will be a whole lot easier to recommend to people…I am glad I watched it and will never regret it, because it really changed everything for me, but some of the images are just so imprinted in my mind that it still upsets me and makes me too emotional. Also, I have tried so many methods to lose weight. Occasionally, links on this site pointing to other products are affiliate links, meaning No Meat Athlete LLC earns commissions on sales referred through those particular links. I am an engineer who works with statistics on a daily basis.
His diet was horrendous with lots of meat, sugar and dairy. My husband and I have been wanting to see it and just haven’t found the right time! So please, do your part to encourage that. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. All from word of mouth advertising from a friend at church. For sure the movie does a good job of showing you that the plant-based diet is better than the traditional western one, but that hard line is not maintained. The title says it all. Information worth ten stars. Despite plenty of recommendations from friends, The China Study is something that’s still on my list to read “when I get a chance,” taking a back seat to quicker reads that I’ve been meaning to get to. The fork is food. I can only imagine that people who aren’t already vegetarian or vegan will find less motivation than I had to read it. There is a wonderful Forks Over Knives support group on Facebook, which has helped me understand how to cook this way, Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2015. I traveled extensively through China a few years ago and observed many toxic environments (polluted rivers used for drinking water, smoggy urban air, etc.) I lost and regained weight with all of them because the science would get fuzzy on each of them and the food gets boring. They talk about not consuming bottled water. I could not explain it to my husband in the detailed, specific way he was needing in order to understand, but this movie did it for him. You're never too old to improve your health. I really enjoyed it! I’ll still get them to watch it, but it doesn’t sound like it’ll have the impact I was hoping for. Great review Matt. It will open your eyes, change your mind, and probably save your life. don’t know why the movie leaves out any reference to fish.
I was not vegetarian going in to the movie, but it really got me thinking.
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Be open minded and take what you will from this documentary. thank you for your advice, I recently watched this movie and was so impressed I immediately emailed my family members (none of which are vegan) and asked them to take 140 minutes out of their life to watch it.
The focus is on two doctors, T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Caldwell Esselstyn, MD, who separately and then in combination come to the conclusion that a whole-food, plant-based diet is the best way to treat medical problems. I became an E2 junkie the very next day. I like that it’s not pushy or preachy.
which The China Study does not consider or leaves out, not even mentioning them (Denise points this out very well in her critique). Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2015. Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2019. According to Campbell, the furry little buggers fed low-protein (5%) diets were less likely to develop malignant tumours. Esselstyn and Campbell both grew up on farms believing that animal protein was essential to our well-being, but have since changed their beliefs in the face of mounting data pointing in one direction — that a whole foods, plant-based diet could be the answer to our country’s obesity epidemic and health crisis. Very informative.
You're never too old to improve your health. I wish it was playing in more locations and bummed it’s not playing near me! Time will tell if we are able to state the critics are wrong. I googled away for quite a while and found that the criticism could almost all be traced back to the Weston A Price foundation. Pretty much exactly what I took away when I watched it back in January. I try not to preach to them about my choice to be a vegan, but it’s so hard sometimes because I want them to feel as good as I do.
I think you’d have to be Suicidal to do anything less after seeing all the hard scientific evidence they have to support their arguments. Controversial New Report Recommends Eating Red, Processed Meat.
I also have to disagree with Dr Esselstyn’s diet plan that isn’t mentioned in full during the film, the exclusion of plant based fats from nuts, avocados, etc. http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/09/22/forks-over-knives-is-the-science-legit-a-review-and-critique/, 21 Days to Pangie » Blog Archive » No Pain Diet Round 2 – Day 6. It is far more than filling emotional voids, it is your health and your medicine. Never really thought that eating habits had a direct role in hospital visits. Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016. great to see that this is getting some national attention, it really does make some great points and will make you question your diet (especially the case they make against dairy. That’s one of many, many points raised by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, who, along with Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Cornell University professor and author of The China Study, presents evidence in favor of a plant-based diet for health.
Important information presented for consideration. The movie is perfect in its soft sell and I think that is wonderful.
As for the movie itself, I liked it very much. I even bought the book .
No fads, gimmicks, or twisted statistics. There is plenty of useful information mentioned that applies to meat-eaters, vegans and all in between. It truly is a revelation. While these pro-meat and pro-dairy claims stand out, almost ridiculously so, against the pro-plant background of the rest of the documentary, the simple inclusion of these dissenting viewpoints does lend an air of fairness to the film, even if it’s not entirely balanced.
Required fields are marked *. There are cookbooks with excellent recipes of plant based foods available and this is also helpful. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. I live in Alaska so the film hasn’t made its way up here yet, although I just sent an email to the independent theater in town requesting they show this. Great review, Matt. Thanks for your honest review. That is, if you get it. SUMMARY: The science in this study is disappointing (see Movie Details below).
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