I saw Forks Over Knives for the first time yesterday. Thank you Netflix streaming! It was really good and completely inspiring. It made me want to just travel around the world as an activist and an advocate for veganism and using food as medicine. I read The China Study a couple years ago, one of the books that convinced my husband and I to ditch the meat, dairy, and eggs and go vegan. Best. Decision. Ever.
For those of you who are not familiar with the book The China Study, it is a book written by Dr. T. Colin Campbell that links the animal protein casein with a whole host of western diseases including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, and that is just a few of them. This book describes the results of a 20 year study Dr. T. Colin Campbell conducted in China looking at the relationship of eating animal products with western diseases. What he found was astounding: The animal protein casein promotes the growth of cancer cells and is responsible for all other western diseases. Eliminating the protein from your diet not only ceases the progression of cancer, obesity, heart disease, osteoporosis, and other western diseases, it REVERSES IT! NO MODERN MEDICINE IN EXISTENCE CAN DO THIS!!!!!!
Forks Over Knives is a documentary about the research and findings of Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a researcher at Cornell in nutritional sciences and Dr. Esselstyn, a top surgeon and head of the breast cancer task force at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic both came to the same conclusion through completely independent and very different research: animal products are bad for our health and eliminating them from our diet will not only treat, but cure the most common western diseases.
In the documentary they also introduce a few other doctors that are treating their patients with a vegan diet as well as chronicle a few of the patients dealing with a myriad of diseases. The results are insane!
Joey Aucoin was diagnosed with dangerously high cholesterol and type II diabetes and was on at least 5 different pills as well as injections that caused at least 27 different side effects including overeating, depression, insominia, bloody stools, nasal drip, just to name a few. Joey stopped taking his medicine and went on a vegan diet. After 8 weeks he had lost 40lbs, 26 of the 27 side effects were gone, and he had lowered his cholesterol to normal levels and cured his type II diabetes!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!
The documentary chronicles several other patients similar to Joey, including a stage 4 breast cancer patient who chose a vegan diet over chemo and radiation and not only beat cancer but went on to win a gold medal in an ironman triathlon!!!
The vegan diet does what modern medicine has failed to do: REVERSE DISEASE!
I highly recommend this documentary to anyone and everyone who cares about the health and well-being of themselves and those they love.
