Forks Over Knives Documentary..

Also, there isn't much money to be made in researching and telling people food and environment is contributing to disease. Pharmaceutical companies make money off of drugs. So if you identify a disease, it's more beneficial to them to make a drug for it, rather than try and figure out how to prevent it in the first place. The government is the same way. Big pharma, big food, and big ag give them money, they create the grants and fund the research that they want to fund.

We agree there. And, not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I have heard of researchers (specifically some with results that don't incriminate saturated fat and cholesterol) getting essentially black-balled from publishing in some of the top-tier journals. I obviously don't know how true this is, but I am in academia (for a wee bit longer, at least) and I know that the much lauded peer-review process is far from flawless. Follow the money and the politics.

I recently started to watch it, hopefully I will get to watch some more tonight. I have been talking to my husband about it, I think that we still need to eat meat (lean) but not near in the quantities they we are eating now. It just floored me when the made the connection between casein, cancer and America. Totally blows your mind!!

Wait, what link between casein and cancer? Casein is a milk protein, that:
1. People have been drinking for millions of years.
2. Is the protein manufactured by humans that makes up the majority of breast milk.

Cancer is relatively new, how can anyone seriously try and say that casein is the connection to cancer? Haven't seen this documentary, but this absolutely laughable conclusion has pretty much destroyed it's credibility already.

We've been studying the link between casein and cancer for a long time. You forget the food industry has far greater influence on what information gets to you.

So, humans have been causing their own cancer for millions of years? Oh wait, cancer hasn't been around until relatively recently, much more recent than human casein consumption. What about Australian studies that show casein has antimutagenic properties? What about the fact that those studies from the China Study consisted of pumping rats full of ridiculous doses of casein? Or the fact that humans don't consume large amounts of casein without whey, which has been shown to have protective properties? It's kinda like concluding the sky is gray because I only look out the window on overcast days, and refuse to look out the window if the sun is out.

I just watched Forks over Knives this week, as well as Fat Head.

My mom is Chinese and we ate everything growing up. Beef, pork, ice cream, ... The main difference between us and the "American" neighbors was that we ate tons and tons of vegetables! They make you feel good.

My gut feel is that you should eat what makes your body feel energized and healthy.

I agree.

There is no one diet to solve all that ails mankind. There is only choice and truth.. something these pop-documentaries fail to acknowledge.

Choose the diet that suites you, and understand that I will do the same.

we ate tons and tons of vegetables! They make you feel good.

No, they make YOU feel good. They make ME feel sick. Why do people always do this? Everyone is different, and just saying "you should eat more veg" isn't a very good way to go about it.

Ain't giving up my meat because of a documentary.

I just recently watched it and have since given up dairy which I'd already been working on before--I was down to just greek yogurt and cottage cheese as regular dairy sources--but have officially given it up completely... and truthfully I was debating the whole vegan thing but am still unsure... I have doubled my vegetable intake (do a lot of juicing) and have always ate a lot of fruit and I only eat meat once a day and might reduce that to the occasional meal when my body is craving the protein, still researching and deciding... and I agree that we need to avoid the processed/chemical laden foods--that's whats causing the multitude of disease we see today--whether humans are herbivores or omnivores naturally--just look back on the history of disease--they didn't expound until we started adding all this preservatives/hormones and god knows what else to our foods! So regardless of being a meat eater or a plant eater--keep it clean and natural and I believe you'll beat out the majority of Americans in health...

Since I have given up dairy and started juicing--the one thing I notice already (been about 2 weeks no dairy and a week and half juicing--one to two juices a day) is that I sleep so much better! I fall asleep quicker and sleep sounder during the night, I also wake up less!

Great vegan propaganda as far as the disease aspect went. The China Study showed that people who ate the most meat and dairy had the least amount of cancer and disease, yes weird, but true. People should buy local if they can and support sustainable farming..........