Title: Forks Over Knives Director: Lee Fulkerson Cast: Neal Barnard, Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., Matthew Lederman ‘Forks Over Knives’, from director Lee Fulkerson, fashions itself a hip, savvy treatise on vegetarianism, sort of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for the animal rights and beware-meat, health-conscious set. Instead, it’s a wearying polemic that tests the patience of even those who might be inclined to agree with it. Fulkerson takes as his two chief crusading subjects biochemist T. Colin Campbell and Cleveland-based surgeon Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Breaking out the science, they (and others) argue that the health benefits of eating vegetables are vast, and varied. Nipping a page from ‘Super Size Me”s Morgan Spurlock, Fulkerson...
- 6/27/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Title: Forks Over Knives Directed By: Lee Fulkerson Cast: Neal Barnard, Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., Matthew Lederman, many others. Screened at: Critics’ online download, NYC, 4/27/11 Opens: May 6, 2011 Over 2400 years ago on the island of Kos, Hippocrates, the daddy of all doctors, said “Let food be your medicine.” To an extent the human population did follow his advice. As a result, people may have died from diphtheria and typhoid and a host of other illnesses, but few suffered from cancers and heart disease. Things have changed with “progress,” actually a regression from natural, healthful foods, to fast food, animal protein, and fat in general, which some believe have...
- 6/19/2011
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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