Fantastic!

As Good As It Gets

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

I recommend "Forks Over Knives" to anyone who is struggling with a specific disease. It explains a cure to almost anyone dealing with a disease. I liked this movie because it provided me with a lot of interesting facts, it can be great information to know for anyone who may one day possibly acquire a disease, and it is relatable to a large majority of the United States people! I highly recommend this movie because it is extremely informative and an important concept to become aware of for anyone. "Forks Over Knives" opened me up to a new perspective on the struggles of diseases throughout the country. I didn't realize that so many people had a disease or were considered overweight! This movie is extremely beneficial and important to know of. I loved the movie and it provided me with a new array of dietary facts and statistics. I recommend the movie to anyone.

The crew of this documentary follow some claims that ALL animal based food is bad for your health. One doctor presented a study that says 20% casein will encourage cancer in rats while 5% casein will make it go back. Then it jumps to the conclusion that ALL and ANY animal based proteins are a source of all evils in human health.Nowhere in the entire movie they will show proof that you need to be at 0% animal protein.When they talk about the low cancer rates in Japan they just skip the information that they are fish and seafood eaters and they just go to a study made in China.This is a terrible vegan PR movie. I'm not against vegan-ism, nor against vegetarianism, I'm just saying they pretend knowing everything while they don't seem to be able to distinguish left from right.My own conclusions after seeing this film is that people need to dial down their animal based diets. Not really not eat that, just do it in moderation, not on a daily basis.

This is a controversial film but its message although superficially persuasive is neither new nor entirely convincing. Although viewed primarily from a US perspective, it is aimed at what might be called the Western diet in its entirety.Is eating red meat and/or processed food and/or sugar really killing us? Or too much of the stuff? Too much of anything will kill you, including too much water in a short period.Back in the 1980s we were being warned about the perils of too much saturated fat, and told we should engage in what is now called "healthy eating". Like most of us plebs I found this thesis persuasive, then I read "Eat Your Heart Out" by James Le Fanu. I went on not only to meet the author but to visit him at his South London home, charming guy, and extremely knowledgeable. In this book he points out that the ideas peddled by the healthy eating brigade are overly simplistic. You eat "too much" saturated fat, and it clogs up your arteries. Well no, the human body doesn't work quite like that.Although it is more than simply a rehash of this dogma, "Forks Over Knives" says more or less the same thing as those Dr Le Fanu shot down in his classic medical monograph. True, it does use a massive body of evidence, including from China, but is it really that simple? As Jacque Fresco pointed out, rabbits get cancer too.We hear one prominent dissenting voice, the high powered nutritionist Connie Diekman, who speaks in favour of animal protein. The most controversial claim made here is that dairy products cause rather than insure against osteoporosis. That and that the FDA is really a farmers' advocacy group. True, there is vested interest here, but as another contributor points out, vested interest comes in many forms.There is no mention of the decades long and ongoing Framingham study, probably because from the dogmatist's point of view its results have been disappointing. Towards the end we see an agenda, this film is as much a political document as a nutrition guide. We are warned of environmental desolation if we continue to eat meat. One contributor speaks of holding a deep respect for animals. Seriously? I have absolutely no "respect" for a bacon slice on my plate, and likewise absolutely no compunction about eating it. The US is slaughtering 10 billion "innocent" animals every year. Wow! And how many of those "innocent" animals would have been bred if we were all eating nothing but vegan burgers?There is though a very good point made about endothelial cells, and could the bottom line be that most people are simply eating too much? Eat a pound of steak and you may still have room for dessert. Eat a pound of lettuce, and you won't. The choice is yours – I've already made mine.Seriously though, the message of this film is worth digesting, but don't expect to live forever or even substantially longer by altering your diet, although it may seem like it. On a slightly metaphysical note, some of us will live for as long as we were intended to, and as long as we have work to do. If that were not the case, I would have been dead decades ago, fried chicken dinner or not.

This is one of the best films that I've seen on the subject of health and nutrition. Most of my friends who have seen it say they wish they had known what they learned from the film years ago. The scientific data is clearly communicated in a way that is understandable by the general public. Let's face it, most of us do not have a degree in human nutrition and are not capable of naming amino acids, or describing the function of endothelial cells. Most people learned all they know of nutrition from the USDA food pyramid and/or their parents, which leaves them nutritionally illiterate. The consequences on our health are dramatic, and fortunately preventable.For those who want to dig into all the studies and scientific details there are plenty of resources from the contributing guests (Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, by Dr Esselstyn, The China Study, by T Colin Campbell, The Starch Solution by Dr McDougall, and plenty more). After seeing the film and understanding the "why" behind the recommendations, the companion recipe books provide the "how" for evolving our diet.I see that often detractors forget several key elements of the information presented. These studies have been performed by many researchers and doctors, not just one they want to pick on. They have been done over decades and on massive numbers of people. The conclusions are used today to reverse heart disease, diabetes type 2, erectile dysfunction, some cancers, and more. Non-scientists with no health or nutrition degree or peer reviewed articles published in leading scientific journals are *not* in a position to contradict the world's leading experts, but that sure doesn't stop them from thinking they can. Those who prove what they say is true with their actions are who the population needs to listen to; not those who deny what is clearly proved by doctors and the patients they heal on a daily basis. Deniers of the conclusions of Forks Over Knives are like people arguing that the Earth is flat despite the crushing evidence to the contrary.