Forks Over Knives: A Movie That Just Might Save Your Life
Let food be thy medicine.
This may seem like a quote from some new age practitioner of alternative medicine, but it is actually attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates who is considered the father of Western medicine and namesake of the Hippocratic oath (an oath all doctors must take before practicing medicine).
The quote also pretty much sums up a revolutionary new documentary called Forks Over Knives.
Well, the film actually takes that quote one step further and claims that you will not even need medicine if you eat certain foods.
In this documentary, several reputable and well respected doctors claim that a plant based diet can prevent, and even reverse, most non-congenital diseases.
I stumbled upon this movie when I saw the CNN special with Dr.
Sanjay Gupta called "The Last Heart Attack".
In the CNN special Bill Clinton explained how he is using this diet to battle his heart disease and improve his health.
I did some research on the doctor who influenced Bill Clinton to give up cheeseburgers and discovered that he was also featured in this new documentary Forks Over Knives.
His name is Dr.
Caldwell Esselstyn and I believe his research will forever change the way we eat in America.
I have always been very interested in health and nutrition which can probably be attributed to the influence of my parents.
They were both vegetarians in the 70's and early 80's and my dad often drank nutritious shakes that he made in his juicer before "juicing" was a fad.
I can remember him making green pepper and garlic shakes and offering my brothers and sisters a sip, which we almost always refused.
But it was a book that I read in college called The Okinawa Program that really reinvigorated my interest in health and nutrition.
In this book, Harvard trained physicians and scientists discovered that Okinawa Japan had the highest concentration of centenarians (people over 100 years old) in the world.
They found that this was largely because of their diet which is very similar to the diet that Dr.
Esselstyn is now advocating.
I have actually been trying out the diet for a few weeks and I have to say I am noticing positive health effects already.
Initially I thought that it would be much harder because I am a self admitted "foodie" and I love good barbecue.
In fact, I used to say that if I could, I would barbecue and play golf every day.
However, the overwhelming benefits of eating a plants based diet are well worth the sacrifice.
This diet has been proven to prevent, and sometimes reverse, a wide range of diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity osteoporosis, prostate cancer, arthritis, hypertension, high blood pressure, the list goes on and on.
Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans and other non-congenital diseases cost us billions of dollars each year to treat.
These diseases are particularly debilitating in minority communities where resources and access to quality health care and education are less prevalent.
What makes this movie so exciting is that the relatively low cost practices advocated in it have the potential to greatly improve the health and well being of all Americans.
To learn more about living a healthy lifestyle by eating a plant based whole foods diet, visit http://www.
plantbaseddietplan.
com.
This may seem like a quote from some new age practitioner of alternative medicine, but it is actually attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates who is considered the father of Western medicine and namesake of the Hippocratic oath (an oath all doctors must take before practicing medicine).
The quote also pretty much sums up a revolutionary new documentary called Forks Over Knives.
Well, the film actually takes that quote one step further and claims that you will not even need medicine if you eat certain foods.
In this documentary, several reputable and well respected doctors claim that a plant based diet can prevent, and even reverse, most non-congenital diseases.
I stumbled upon this movie when I saw the CNN special with Dr.
Sanjay Gupta called "The Last Heart Attack".
In the CNN special Bill Clinton explained how he is using this diet to battle his heart disease and improve his health.
I did some research on the doctor who influenced Bill Clinton to give up cheeseburgers and discovered that he was also featured in this new documentary Forks Over Knives.
His name is Dr.
Caldwell Esselstyn and I believe his research will forever change the way we eat in America.
I have always been very interested in health and nutrition which can probably be attributed to the influence of my parents.
They were both vegetarians in the 70's and early 80's and my dad often drank nutritious shakes that he made in his juicer before "juicing" was a fad.
I can remember him making green pepper and garlic shakes and offering my brothers and sisters a sip, which we almost always refused.
But it was a book that I read in college called The Okinawa Program that really reinvigorated my interest in health and nutrition.
In this book, Harvard trained physicians and scientists discovered that Okinawa Japan had the highest concentration of centenarians (people over 100 years old) in the world.
They found that this was largely because of their diet which is very similar to the diet that Dr.
Esselstyn is now advocating.
I have actually been trying out the diet for a few weeks and I have to say I am noticing positive health effects already.
Initially I thought that it would be much harder because I am a self admitted "foodie" and I love good barbecue.
In fact, I used to say that if I could, I would barbecue and play golf every day.
However, the overwhelming benefits of eating a plants based diet are well worth the sacrifice.
This diet has been proven to prevent, and sometimes reverse, a wide range of diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity osteoporosis, prostate cancer, arthritis, hypertension, high blood pressure, the list goes on and on.
Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans and other non-congenital diseases cost us billions of dollars each year to treat.
These diseases are particularly debilitating in minority communities where resources and access to quality health care and education are less prevalent.
What makes this movie so exciting is that the relatively low cost practices advocated in it have the potential to greatly improve the health and well being of all Americans.
To learn more about living a healthy lifestyle by eating a plant based whole foods diet, visit http://www.
plantbaseddietplan.
com.
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