Forks Over Knifes Documentary Analysis

Forks Over Knifes (Documentary) The movie Forks over Knifes is about how the diet of Americans contribute negatively towards our health. This movie presents the theory that almost all of americans health issues are caused by our western diet, and that by eating a whole food, plant based diet, Americans can not only stop the progression of most cancers and heart diseases, but reverse their growth and their damage. This film takes us on a journey of a few americans who changed their eating habits and adopted the whole food, plant based diet and how their progression happens. All of the people the doctors worked with in the movie showed much progression. Some, their cholesterol levels even cutting in half. This film also explains how scientists came to this conclusion and the data they have been collecting and experiments they have been preforming for years. According to this movie, America spends 2.2 trillion dollars a year for healthcare. This is more per person for health care than any other industrialized country in the world. One in three people in America will develop diabetes. This movie …show more content…
Including a huge study done in China, which showed the people in rural areas who ate less animal products had way less cancer or heart related deaths than those who had daily consumption or more consumption of animal protein. Them movie went over the progression of how america sees food groups, and how the food pyramid has changed our diets, yet still allows for unnecessary eating and could lead to more cancer for us. In 1992 the pyramid became “My pyramid” which is what we still use today, and the doctors in this film argue is still causing us to be fat and sick. This movies main point is that the diet we are eating in the Western World is what is killing us. They really stress that if we want to live long and healthy lives than what we need to adopt is a “whole foods, plant based