mvmjrogers The science is in, the protein in dairy causes inflammation in coronary arteries the trigger for heart disease. If you speak with younger cardiologists they are aware and will be first to say... to save your life move to a plant based diet. This is finally where President Clinton was Sent after a ",healthy" America diet failed him he was referred to Cleveland clinic to the author of this peer reviewed study based on the overwhelmingly positive outcomes If you're looking for the magic bullet, this is it. Unfortunately the meat and dairy industry is very effective in having its elected officials in our government enact legislation that protects and increases their profits. The result is the food pyramid that reflects special interests more than health guidelines. Any cardiac patient that wants to take control of their health must watch and put into practice this way of eating. If you're in a high risk group ie. strong family Hx embrace this. If you're concerned about getting enough protein take a look at gorillas, rhinos, elephants, horses all are large muscular animals who get their protein from plants.... a much more easily assimilated form. The same is possible for us. Just in time for you to put in a victory garden!

Granger First let me say I found the video fascinating. But I also found many of its claims and statements questionable. I give it 5 stars for "making you think"... but one needs to think just a bit further than the presentation of this video.I don't question that a vegan diet is more healthy than the "American Diet". I have personally seen evidence of such. But I do scientifically question the presentation that all animal-based proteins are "bad".This is especially the case in the rat test, in which casein protein was used as a test substance. Is that a proper protein for for such a test? Was this research followed up using other animal-based proteins-- or a rounded protein diet? What about plant-based proteins?If such follow-up study was done, why were the results not published? Where is the A vs B comparison? Casein may be considered an unhealthy, questionable test substance to start with. Where are comparative follow-up studies?Comparing affluent families with poor families from the same region and attributing poor health directly to meat would seem somewhat jump-the-shark. What about other influencing factors such as sodas and other excessive-sugar content food, high fat content in affluent diet, not to mention food additives and processed foods? Attributing poor health solely to meat intake seems a biased conclusion that ignores other very important dietary factors... not to mention that poorer children likely also had a less-sedentary lifestyle than affluent children.There were just too many blanket conclusions in the film for me to accept it as scientifically accurate; thus it was unconvincing.Can a plant-based diet improve health? Most likely... if balanced properly. Is it absolutely necessary to stop all animal-based foods? The jury would seem still out on that one, as this film presented zero research on what would happen if one simply eliminated processed foods and refined sugars and switched to a natural, balanced meat and vegetable diet. The direct attribution of cancer to meat is solid propaganda. Their own studies proved this and was visible in their own presentation. The reality that the Asian-diet (which does not center on meat but doesn't exclude it either) proved as healthy in tests as a vegan diet would present evidence that their conclusions are faulty-- and that it is not essential to totally eliminate animal-based foods to retain excellent health. That's my take on the film. My primary questions: where is the follow-up research to the rat casein intake test? Why did they consider meat to be THE culprit while apparently discarding so many other factors? A more balanced (and more researched) study seems warranted.

axanghelescu Warning this might have spoilers !! If anyone knows me they would say that I'm the biggest health advocate, so I really had high hopes for this movie. And while I don't hold any degrees in nutrition, I do have graduate studies and critical thinking in general, and I do know how to write/read scientific research on a topic. That being said, I thought this movie LACKED ESSENTIAL DETAILS ABOUT THE RESEARCH RESULTS shown. It's unfortunate but the way they presented the research was very biased (to prove their theory "animal produce bad, plant produce good") which is just wrong. I have a hard time believing a person that does research in this field at Cornel University would choose to ignore the whole research and present only parts of it for the sake of making this movie, so I am really baffled as to what these people actually think and how they could make such a one sided story. After I saw the movie I thought it was great but I couldn't help thinking how come the striking "scientific" discoveries and correlations between cancer tumors and plant/animal protein intake were not taken seriously by the medical community. Well I answered my questions just by doing a tiny bit of research. There are many blogs objectively discussing the misinformation in this movie (and there sure is a lot). So just google some critique, it is all there including "The curious case of Campbell's rats", or dig up the original research papers if you find the critique non objective. So that was a major disappointment, I can expect people to misinterpret and broadcast bad research but not "scholars" who have dedicated lives to it. The movie has the right intention, YES the western diet is killing you, YES people are uneducated when it comes to knowing what to eat, YES people don't know that food can be your medicine, YES your diet can save you from taking a fist of pills and having surgeries. But NO, there is no scientific proof that animal products cause cancer or reduce your life span while plant-based food reverses the cancer and guarantees longevity !!!! No such thing folks. There are so many many complex factors in determining what is cancer(and how different all types of cancer are), how it evolves and so on. Half of this movie is presenting some very biased and taken out of context evidence. That is unacceptable, and that's why I can't give it more than 3 stars. If you want to watch a documentary about food, watch FOOD INC.

a_baron This is a controversial film but its message although superficially persuasive is neither new nor entirely convincing. Although viewed primarily from a US perspective, it is aimed at what might be called the Western diet in its entirety.Is eating red meat and/or processed food and/or sugar really killing us? Or too much of the stuff? Too much of anything will kill you, including too much water in a short period.Back in the 1980s we were being warned about the perils of too much saturated fat, and told we should engage in what is now called "healthy eating". Like most of us plebs I found this thesis persuasive, then I read "Eat Your Heart Out" by James Le Fanu. I went on not only to meet the author but to visit him at his South London home, charming guy, and extremely knowledgeable. In this book he points out that the ideas peddled by the healthy eating brigade are overly simplistic. You eat "too much" saturated fat, and it clogs up your arteries. Well no, the human body doesn't work quite like that.Although it is more than simply a rehash of this dogma, "Forks Over Knives" says more or less the same thing as those Dr Le Fanu shot down in his classic medical monograph. True, it does use a massive body of evidence, including from China, but is it really that simple? As Jacque Fresco pointed out, rabbits get cancer too.We hear one prominent dissenting voice, the high powered nutritionist Connie Diekman, who speaks in favour of animal protein. The most controversial claim made here is that dairy products cause rather than insure against osteoporosis. That and that the FDA is really a farmers' advocacy group. True, there is vested interest here, but as another contributor points out, vested interest comes in many forms.There is no mention of the decades long and ongoing Framingham study, probably because from the dogmatist's point of view its results have been disappointing. Towards the end we see an agenda, this film is as much a political document as a nutrition guide. We are warned of environmental desolation if we continue to eat meat. One contributor speaks of holding a deep respect for animals. Seriously? I have absolutely no "respect" for a bacon slice on my plate, and likewise absolutely no compunction about eating it. The US is slaughtering 10 billion "innocent" animals every year. Wow! And how many of those "innocent" animals would have been bred if we were all eating nothing but vegan burgers?There is though a very good point made about endothelial cells, and could the bottom line be that most people are simply eating too much? Eat a pound of steak and you may still have room for dessert. Eat a pound of lettuce, and you won't. The choice is yours – I've already made mine.Seriously though, the message of this film is worth digesting, but don't expect to live forever or even substantially longer by altering your diet, although it may seem like it. On a slightly metaphysical note, some of us will live for as long as we were intended to, and as long as we have work to do. If that were not the case, I would have been dead decades ago, fried chicken dinner or not.