Movie Review for ‘Forks Over Knifes’
Lee Fulkersons latest producing endeavor is Forks
Over Knifes. The film takes a closer look at the claim that most of the
degenerative diseases that affect us and our loved ones, can be controlled, or
even reversed, by not consuming animal-based and processed foods.
In the 1960s, a Cornell University nutritional
scientist Dr. T. Colin Campbell made a discovery while working in the
Philippines that forever changed the way he thinks about food consumption. He
found that the majority of the children who consumed a diet rich in
animal-based foods were far higher and more susceptible to liver cancer than
the children who consumed plant-based diets. Near the same time at the Breast
Cancer Task Force in Cleveland Ohio, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn was discovering
more and more that many of the diseases he was seeing in his field were
practically nonexistent in the areas of the world where the majority of the
people were consuming a plant based diet. Both doctors continued to investigate
their finds, until finally in the 1980s they meet. When they finally do meet,
they make the startling discovery that both of their conclusions are very similar.
That conclusion was; "That a whole-food, plant-based diet could prevent,
and even reverse, such degenerative conditions as type 2 diabetes, heart
disease, and some forms of cancer". This in the medical world was a huge
discovery.
I personally do believe that an all plant diet has
its benefits, but I also believe that the movie Forks Over Knifes totally excludes
meat as a good source of protein and a healthy part of a diet. I do understand that
the movie ‘Forks Over Knifes’ is dialed towards people who are obese and to get
people who are not obese to not become obese. But does it come at a cost? I
think that they could have made this video more orientate towards just
vegetables, fruits and wheat instead of saying that meets are not a good part
of our diet. Ever since the beginning of time meats have been a part of our
diet. We have survived haven't we? Our species has survived and flourished from
eating not just vegetables not just fruits but meats as well. So as you would
assume it does not make sense to completely exclude meat from our diet if it
has been a good source of life (so to speak) for our species over hundreds of
thousands of years.
-Chase Pierson
