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Robert Jackson Forks Over Knives is a documentary film that advocates for a low- fat, whole-food, plant-based diet, arguing that eating plant-based foods and avoiding animal-based foods, can prevent or reverse serious health problems. There are many benefits to choosing this diet over a "western diet", a diet high in fat, sugar, processed foods, and meat. The healthy plant-based diet is high in vitamins and minerals and it won't raise your bad cholesterol. Unlike the fatty "western diet", this diet prevents the buildup of fat in arteries, which can cause cardiovascular disease. Despite it advocating healthier eating, Forks Over Knives is not without fault. The film argues against the consumption of animal-based foods, specifically targeting meat and dairy, even going as far as to suggest that animal-based foods have little to no nutritional benefit and should never be eaten. While eating too much meat is unhealthy, lean meat and fish in moderation can be part of a healthy diet. The film also states that drinking too much milk is bad, but like meat, it can be part of a healthy diet when consumed in moderation.Still, the film has other redeeming moments, such as its valid points about the effect the consumption of animal products has on the world. For example, it states that world hunger would end if all the grain fed to animals was redistributed to people who need it. In my opinion, this argument is better because it is about humanity as a whole, which is more important than one person's diet. Arguments like these are much more likely to convert me to veganism than questionable claims about the supposed lack of nutritional value in all animal products.Overall, Forks Over Knives, has something great to say, but it is seriously hampered by its strong, biased anti-meat and anti- dairy stance. This position is repeatedly enforced throughout the film, which could encourage some viewers to become vegan or even look down on those who eat animal-based products. Although there are great things about low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diets, this movie is not the best way to learn about them.

mp-111 There is meat and then there is meat.There is meat that comes from animals that eat the kind of food that they naturally seek, such as cows grazing in fields their whole lives.And then there is meat that comes from cows that are fed genetically modified corn which is really bad for them. The former are healthy animals that live a happy life, the latter are terribly unhealthy and slaughtered shortly before they would otherwise die of metabolic syndromes and cancer.Moreover, industrial, grain-fed cows are then processed into strange things that are sold as food with all kinds of chemical additives.Scientific studies on "red meat" do not take these differences into consideration: they conflate the general with the particular. That's poor science.There is no danger in eating meat generally - hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary history testify to that, or else we wouldn't be here - but there is a severe danger eating meat from sick, mistreated beasts that have been fed terrible "food" and been processed into cheap "food" that people buy in supermarkets.Don't follow leaders - Watch the parkin' meters! Free thinking allowed.

Daniel Heeris There is no doubt that this documentary, like so many others is bias, in this case bias towards a vegan diet, and they do seem to leave out facts for that very same reason. However watching documentaries you should know that this is often the case, and you should do your own research and form your own opinion based on other sources than just the film. That said, a documentary is supposed to make you think, and this certainly did that for me. It moved my perception of and curiosity about diet more than any other film or article has. Perhaps it was the astounding facts it presented me with, perhaps it is because I am already looking more at what I eat than I used to. At any rate I highly recommend watching this and forming your own opinion. It does not lecture you about morals of eating meat or tries to make you a vegan to protect the environment. While it does briefly touch on the subject of energy footprint in food production, its most important and dominant message is your health, plane and simple. Do you think meat is vital for you health and survival? The answer this film gives might surprise you.

adityamurti79 A couple of years ago it was Food Inc made famous with its slogan "You are what you eat". And now we have "Forks over Knives" reviving the nutrition debate backed by a whole set of scientific data and logical analysis.I am not too overwhelmed by it, but somethings gotta give. I see some truth (and experiencing it too) in their premise although giving up it all might not work for most of us. But we can do it in moderation for starters. So what does the documentary talk about? In a nutshell it borders on years of scientific experiments, years of data collection, and the conclusion that an American physician Caldwell Esselstyn and professor of nutritional biochemistry T. Colin. Campbell have arrived on through years of painstaking research.Face it. Animal protein is not good for your health. The rising incidence of cancer can be directly associated to the growing intake of animal protein, should you choose to believe the documentary. Similarly the intake of egg is detrimental to your immune system and not good for your health. And if you are still surprised here's the killer. Milk, that we consider to be a source of calcium actually leads to bone erosion in your body. Stunned. The documentary points out that the intake of milk actually leads to rise in acidity in your body, and to counter that and maintain the pH balance, your body actually absorbs the calcium of your bones that would form the alkali to stabilize the acidity. This in turn makes your body more deficient of calcium and your bones weak. Aaah! so much for the calcium in that milk.Caldwell and Colin go on to prove that whole food plant based diet is the best source of the nutrients required by your body without any detrimental effect. In fact proteins and nutrients from a plant based diet have the capability to reconstruct your body cells, valves, arteries and make you a new person altogether. Try a rocket salad or a spinach salad for that calcium and feel the difference. If you don't believe that witness the cases of a Type II diabetes patient who was cured without any medicines and that whole food plant based nutritional diet alone.I am no scientist. But after watching the documentary and implementing the diet and cutting down my intake of milk and meat products, I do feel more energetic, responsive and healthy. The lethargy is gone. I can't say about the cholesterol, and blood sugar because they never troubled me before. However I intend to stay like that forever with this new found knowledge and diet plan.Indiekaleidoscope