Forks Over Knives
2011, Film, 90 min, Documentary, English, United States, MoviePedia score 72
Warning - This movie could save your life!
Examines the profound claim that most; if not all; of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled; or even reversed; by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Cameras follow "reality patients" who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole-foods, plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments - while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.
Directed by Lee Fulkerson
Cast
- Lee Fulkerson as Self - Narrator
- Matthew Lederman as Self - Doctor
- Alona Pulde as Self - Doctor
- T. Colin Campbell as Self - Doctor
- Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. as Self - Doctor
- Joey Aucoin as Self - Landscape Developer
- John McDougall as Self - Doctor
- Connie Diekman as Self - Director of University Nutrition, Washington University
- Pam Popper as Self - Executive Director, The Wellness Forum
- Doug Lisle as Self - Doctor
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