Please read and think!! Your life and your health depends on it!

[ramset]

Below is a  brief Synopsis of the recent Documentary Forks Over Knives.
This "movie" can be had through many venues on the Web.

Our diet is changing us,wearing us down, making us sick,tired,vulnerable to
infection and disease.

And I am quite sure it effects our mind and our state of mind.....

The data and statistics presented in this documentary are irrefutable
We as a population are the "evidence" ,     becoming those statistics.

the consequences are manifesting in all of us!

Comments please?
Thx
Chet

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What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medical technology in the world, we are sicker than ever by nearly every measure.
Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially amongst our younger population. About half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. Major medical operations have become routine, helping to drive health care costs to astronomical levels. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country's three leading causes of death, even though billions are spent each year to "battle" these very conditions. Millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases.
Could it be there's a single solution to all of these problems? A solution so comprehensive, but so straightforward, that it's mind-boggling that more of us haven't taken it seriously?
FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.
(http://forksoverknives.com/images/newsite/synopsis/synopsis-t-colin-campbell.jpg)Dr. Campbell, a nutritional scientist at Cornell University, was concerned in the late 1960's with producing "high quality" animal protein to bring to the poor and malnourished areas of the third world. While in the Philippines, he made a life-changing discovery: the country's wealthier children, who were consuming relatively high amounts of animal-based foods, were much more likely to get liver cancer. Dr. Esselstyn, a top surgeon and head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, found that many of the diseases he routinely treated were virtually unknown in parts of the world where animal-based foods were rarely consumed.
These discoveries inspired Campbell and Esselstyn, who didn't know each other yet, to conduct several groundbreaking studies. One of them took place in China and is still among the most comprehensive health-related investigations ever undertaken. Their research led them to a startling conclusion: degenerative diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even several forms of cancer, could almost always be prevented—and in many cases reversed—by adopting a whole-foods, plant-based diet. Despite the profound implications of their findings, their work has remained relatively unknown to the public.
The filmmakers travel with Drs. Campbell and Esselstyn on their separate but similar paths, from their childhood farms where they both produced "nature's perfect food"; to China and Cleveland, where they explored ideas that challenged the established thinking and shook their own core beliefs.
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.

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Any one with personal experience or knowledge please comment here!

[Doug1]

Chet
  Food is a depressing topic. It will lead you back to the root of the problem. Greed of money will be the distruction of everyone. Every measure of sense over writen with a model of more for less. More money for less product. Less quality,quantity. the less meat theory would be grand if the plant based foods were of quality. Yet GMO plant based foods will render your answer useless. Poor farming practices and soil conservation reliance on chemical based fertalizers all result in poor plant based foods. GMO's and the compounds that make up the group are in every aspect of farming these days even if the farmer is not awear of it. the effects last for many years after the chemicals are no longer used because the enter into the natural food chain. Weeds ,grass trees which shed leaves for years laced with the chemicals that re-enter the eco system.
  Animal waste becomes plant food and cycles for years before the chemicals have expired. There are simply too many people to feed economically.Soon there will be too many to feed period. Shortened life spans would be practical at some point or limits on the number of children born but that gets into a real uggly topic. Human nature will cure the problem with self distruction. Have a twinky and enjoy the show. Have you ever heard the phrase "to big to fail" . The dinosor was probably the first one to coin that phrase.

[ramset]

Doug
Thanks for the comments,The first step in change is to realize the necessity.
My son tried this "change", His comment was "you will not believe the difference",He has more energy than he ever thought possible ,his whole attitude has changed ,a good nights sleep is the norm not the exception.

We are fodder for the Finance,our illness feeds industry.

I'm  working  ATM...............
thx
Chet

[gauschor]

There are simply too many people to feed economically. Shortened life spans would be practical at some point or limits on the number of children born but that gets into a real ugly topic.

No need to shorten the lifespan, but I think limits on the number of children would help a lot (in matters of food, working places, etc.), e.g. max. number of 2 kids per couple (or 1 child per parental part, so the total sum always stays equal). I've heard people already raging about that, talking of freedom and rights, while not understanding "One persons freedom ends where another persons freedom begins".

[osirusoft]

First, there is no real food shortage.  Any growing problems are not so much of a geographic problem, but rather a geometric challenge.    Last I checked, the government still pays  some farms subsidies not to produce.  2ndly, this propaganda about overpopulation is just that.  We haven't even crossed the 20% marker for capacity and the only thing we really have an excess of is greed.