Sunday, January 20, 2013

Forks Over Knives
Is the food structure of our "smartest era" helping us or killing us?
 Almost 2 out of 3 people are overweight in our society these days! Cases of diabetes are becoming more and more popular and the people with the most occurring cases of diabetes are teens and younger children! The very people who are supposed to be in the healthiest time period of their lives!
Forks Over Knives follows the research of Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Dr. Campbell and Dr. Esselstyn examine ways to control and or reverse things like diabetes by following a diet which completley cuts out meat and dairy substances. One interesting fact that these doctors found was that children who consume large amounts of meat are more likely to get cancer in the liver. Throughout the movie, the idea of the diet to get rid of diseases like diabetes is tested on patients. According to this movie, the diet seems to work and it reverses the effect of diabetes. Using this diet diminishes the effects of diabetes on the patients and it also almost diminishes uses for medication and pills for diabetes patients.
My personal view on this theory is, it might work for some people as it seemed to in the film but I also think that we as human beings need to watch the amount of intake of food. We also need to stop eating huge amounts of junk foods like chips, sweets, french fries and various other things. We need to have self control and change the way we eat, we need to eat a variety of good and different foods to balance our body out instead of completley eliminating one certain type of food like dairy or meat. Doing this and this alone, will make us 100 times healthier.