“Forks Over Knives” My rating: B
90 minutes | No MPAA rating
Eat your veggies.
That’s the message of “Forks Over Knives,” a new documentary that argues that most of the physical maladies afflicting modern man — obesity, diabetes, cancer, pulmonary disease — could be hugely reduced if we steered clear of meat and dairy and chowed down on fresh vegetables, fruit and whole grains.
Lee Fulkerson’s film joins a growing list of titles (“Food, Inc.,” etc.) pushing for a radical rethinking of America’s diet. It presents a thorough, hard-to-refute case based largely on decades of research by two physicians, Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. and T. Colin Campbell, both of whom grew up on dairy farms and later rejected the dietary wisdom of their youths.
“Forks…” is convincing, citing research (more…)
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