Forks Over Knives (2011) on Netflix
PG20111h 30mDocumentary
Caldwell Esselstyn, a physician, and T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional scientist, argue that a whole-foods, plant-based diet can prevent or reverse degenerative diseases. Patients try the diet.
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Plot summary
Caldwell Esselstyn, a former surgeon, and T. Colin Campbell, a professor of nutritional biochemistry, reached the same conclusion by separate routes: a diet of plants and whole grains, free of animal products and heavily processed food, may prevent or even reverse degenerative illnesses such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers. Their case rests on decades of research, including the long study behind Campbell's book The China Study, and has stayed relatively unknown to the public. Alongside the science, cameras follow patients living with chronic conditions, whose doctors teach them to make this way of eating their main treatment.
Cast
- Lee Fulkersonas Himself - Narrator
- Matthew Ledermanas Himself - Doctor (as Matthew Ledderman M.D.)
- Alona Puldeas Herself - Doctor (as Alona Pulde M.D.)
- Joey Aucoinas Himself - Landscape Developer
- Connie Diekmanas Herself - Director of University Nutrition, Washington University (as Connie Diekman MEd RD FADA)
- Pam Popperas Herself - Executive Director, The Wellness Forum (as Pam Popper N.D.)
- Doug Lisleas Himself - Doctor (as Doug Lisle Ph.D.)
- Terry Masonas Himself - Chicago Commissioner of Health (as Terry Mason M.D.)
- San'Dera Brantley-Nationas Herself - Diabetes Sufferer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Forks Over Knives (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Producer Brian Wendel said several large publications refused to run stories about Forks Over Knives because of their advertisers. Journalist Avery Yale Kamila reported that despite the mainstream-media trouble, the film generated significant buzz on social media.
- The film was deliberately conceived as the "reverse" of the 2004 documentary Super Size Me: its director goes on the diet and gets better rather than fatter and sicker.
