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.
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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.
There is meat and then there is meat.There is meat that comes from animals that eat the kind of food that they naturally seek, such as cows grazing in fields their whole lives.And then there is meat that comes from cows that are fed genetically modified corn which is really bad for them. The former are healthy animals that live a happy life, the latter are terribly unhealthy and slaughtered shortly before they would otherwise die of metabolic syndromes and cancer.Moreover, industrial, grain-fed cows are then processed into strange things that are sold as food with all kinds of chemical additives.Scientific studies on "red meat" do not take these differences into consideration: they conflate the general with the particular. That's poor science.There is no danger in eating meat generally - hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary history testify to that, or else we wouldn't be here - but there is a severe danger eating meat from sick, mistreated beasts that have been fed terrible "food" and been processed into cheap "food" that people buy in supermarkets.Don't follow leaders - Watch the parkin' meters! Free thinking allowed.
the negative reviews of this documentary must be from closed minded obese fools who are addicted to bad food, and/or work in the big agriculture or big pharmaceutical industries. between this, Food Inc, Vegucated, Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, Hungry For Change, and Super Size Me, how can anyone not see a whole foods plant based diet is optimal for good health, and the standard American diet (sad) is awful? and I didn't get from this film ALL cancers would be prevented or reversed, just the ones that come from poor diet. if you ate and drank a perfect diet and smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day of course you're going to get lung cancer.while some medical professionals have tried to debunk FOK, none of them come close to having the credentials, training, experience, etc... doctors Campbell, Esselstyn, and McDougall do. it's like a first grader debunking Shakespeare.bottom line - don't want most cancers, type 2 diabetes, and/or to be fat/obese? DON'T!
I have mixed emotions about this film. I like the message that Americans (actually most of the world thanks to the spread of fast food chains) is becoming less healthy and more obese. However, despite what 'bhouman' the alleged surgeon on this site wrote, there are many seemingly deliberate inaccuracies in this film. Here are just a few:* Prostate cancer is not the leading cause of cancer in men. It is skin cancer (http://www.cdc.gov/features/cancerandmen/). * There is a risk in having a plant based diet in that there are nine amino acids our bodies cannot produce and, while these are found in meat, they only exist in certain plants. This was the argument of the director of nutrition at Wash U. but it was dismissed with a response that has nothing to do with the quality (types of amino acids present) of protein: "eating whole foods it is virtually impossible to be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of protein in it, lets say potatoes or rice – eight, nine percent. That's the figure we more or less need."* The film claims that milk causes metabolic acidosis which in turn leads to lower levels of stored calcium in bones. The explanation given is that milk lowers blood pH and calcium is taken from bones in order to form calcium carbonate and thus help neutralize the blood. The truth is that sodium bicarbonate is used to neutralize blood pH and although milk is slightly acidic, it is nowhere near as acidic as the stomach itself. Metabolic acidosis is typically related to kidney or liver failure or in an uncontrolled type 1 diabetic reaction (DKA). This whole explanation about milk in the movie is ridiculous and feels manufactured to scare people away from drinking milk. * A claim is made that Americans drink energy drinks, caffeine, and sugar because they have chronic fatigue. Okay? Based on what evidence? None is given, but this sets the stage for arguing for spinach which typically provides some sense of energy.* The whole argument about the USDA conspiring with the meat and dairy constituents of the government to falsify dietary recommendations to the American people is just paranoid speculation which is completely unsubstantiated in this film.Most of the rest of the film has some great points that are true.