Imagine that you go to the doctor and fail the blood test. You have high cholesterol. And several other risk factors for heart disease or stroke.
If you are an adult American, that scenario is easy to imagine. An American dies of heart disease every minute – it’s our #1 cause of death.
Now here’s a harder-to-imagine scenario: The doctor begins your treatment by taking you to the local Whole Foods Market. No prescription necessary.
So that’s the message in the documentary film Forks Over Knives. Spinach instead of pills. Treat hypertension, high cholesterol, and Type 2 diabetes with a plant-based, whole foods diet and an exercise regimen. Better still, prevent those conditions by eliminating meat, dairy, and processed starches and sugars from your diet.
That’s a radical concept for most Americans, but not as radical as our mortality rates from heart disease and cancer compared to parts of the world that subsist on plant-based nutrition (where heart disease is virtually unknown).
In other words, consider the possibility that Mother Nature makes better medicine than GlaxoSmithKline.
Hadn’t heard about this. Thanks for sharing. At about 45 seconds into the video clip, a doctor and another man are walking down a corridor with TVs spaced out along the ceiling. That’s a hallway at the Cleveland Clinic that I’ve walked many, many times. Diet and exercise: two simple solutions to a vast array of complicated medical problems.
See the film asap. The evidence pertaining to the Nazi invasion of Norway in 1940 is stunning (and I love the nerdy history connection).
So now I’m looking real hard at my list of prescriptions and wondering if I can start replacing them with spinach, kale, mustard greens, etc.
Is the film online for free viewing?
Depends on the prescription…. My only concern about a plant-based diet is getting enough protein, which I don’t think I get enough of as it is.
Yeah, for sure watch the video – I think they answer that protein question in an utterly convincing way…
Love your avatar, btw. Looks a little like G. Gordon Liddy.
Movie is available through Netflix, and there is a paperback of the same title through Amazon. I like the avatar also; who drew it?
Yeah, I watched it on Amazon through their streaming video service…
The avatar was a birthday present. Iconizeme.com