I just watched an awesome netflix documentary with my fiance called forks over knives. Seriously check it out.
Forks Over Knives
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Its about the connection between diet and health specifically looking at how plant based diets are useful in significantly reducing the likelihood of many cancers, heart disease, etc. Its wild. Especially when they were talking about this multi-year study done back in the 70's in China on cancer rates, diet, lifestyle, etc. It sampled something like 300+ factors and tied them to the activation/inactivation of oncogenes.
oh, so a documentary on thing we already know? lol, we all know veggies would be better for your diet then most of what you'd eat with a knife.
how was this presented in a way that makes it so highly recommended?
how was this presented in a way that makes it so highly recommended?
For one they follow several patients who transfer from a traditional regimen of medications treating multiple ailments to a whole foods diet which leads to an elimination of the need for said medications in a relatively short period of time as well as a dramatic drop in weight and increase in quality of life.
Plus, for over a decade one of the doctors has been following a group of patients that were all relatively on death's door to mainly various forms of heart disease with some in the study group being given only months to live. These patients have not only changed their prognosis but the damage that they have done to themselves has been reversed.
Third, the documentary talks about two studies one Indian one involving mice, and another involving humans in the US, involving using dietary proteins to manipulate premalignant growths.
And while it can all be approached with a certain amount of flippancy because the underlying premise is rather obvious it is an interesting documentary none the less.
Plus, for over a decade one of the doctors has been following a group of patients that were all relatively on death's door to mainly various forms of heart disease with some in the study group being given only months to live. These patients have not only changed their prognosis but the damage that they have done to themselves has been reversed.
Third, the documentary talks about two studies one Indian one involving mice, and another involving humans in the US, involving using dietary proteins to manipulate premalignant growths.
And while it can all be approached with a certain amount of flippancy because the underlying premise is rather obvious it is an interesting documentary none the less.
Yeah while I agree with you on that and I know first hand you can't trust anything out of a politician's mouth the study itself seems rather unbiased in that its mainly following deaths attributed to cancers while interviewing people in the specific regions to get a base line on life style and the correlation between the life style and the likelihood of cancer.
Part of the study resulted in this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7287273
Part of the study resulted in this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7287273
