Are you a person who heeds health warnings? Perhaps you might like to check out “Forks Over Knives”, a controversial film that has been featured on “The Dr. Oz Show,” “Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell,” The Huffington Post, CNN and Oprah.com.

The film claims that meat and dairy are detrimental to your health and provide scientific evidence that these foods, along with processed foods, are dangerous to your overall health. According to the press release, the film features the same researchers cited by President Bill Clinton.

“Forks Over Knives” is being shown in Landmark, Regal and AMC theaters across the U.S. If you’d like to learn more about the film, you can check out the film’s official page and the official Facebook page, which has over 70,000 fans, with more being added every day. The film has received accolades from Roger Ebert, Variety, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. The film also has gained the following of celebrities like Moby, Steve-O, Marcia Gay Harden, Alicia Silvestone, Angela Bassett, “The Biggest Loser”‘s Bob Harper, Danny DeVito and The New York Times best selling author Kathy Freston.

Here’s the official synopsis:

The documentary film Forks Over Knives is running in major cities around the country. The film examines the profound claim that many of our most-debilitating degenerative diseases – such as heart disease, type-2 diabetes, and several forms of cancer – are almost always preventable, and in many cases reversible, through diet alone. The major storyline traces the journeys of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional biochemist from Cornell University, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a former top surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Throughout the film, 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. Brian Wendel is the Creator and Executive Producer and Lee Fulkerson is the Writer and Director.

Forks Over Knives
Forks Over Knives

By Monique Jones

Monique Jones blogs about race and culture in entertainment, particularly movies and television. You can read her articles at Racialicious, and her new site, COLOR . You can also listen to her new podcast, What would Monique Say.

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