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Warning - This movie could save your life! - Forks Over Knives
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Title: Forks Over Knives

Release Date: 6 May 2011

Runtime: 1h 30m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Monica Beach Media

Production Companies: Monica Beach Media

Overview: 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. The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Cameras follow "reality patients" who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole-foods, plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments - while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.

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Average Vote: 7.081 (149 votes)

Cast

  • Self: Lee Fulkerson
  • Self: Matthew Lederman
  • Self: Alona Pulde
  • Self: T. Colin Campbell
  • Self: Caldwell Esselstyn Jr.
  • Self: Joey Aucoin
  • Self: Connie Diekman
  • Self: Pam Popper
  • Self: Doug Lisle
  • Self: Terry Mason
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