
Forks Over Knives
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Heart disease and stroke
will claim the lives
of 460,000 American women.
and half the calories
if you simply ate an
entire stick of butter.
and hypertension and bone
diseases, osteoporosis.
Prostate cancer is now
the most common cancer
in American men.
Doctors say we really need to eat
less red and processed meat.
And arterial
sclerosis and cancer
and autoimmune disease.
We have unprecedented amount of
type 2 diabetes in our children,
and we're starting
to see hypertension
in our children in
grammar school.
In case you're wondering,
Clearly the Western
diet is taking a toll.
This should serve
as a wake-up call.
We have a growing problem,
and the ones who are
growing are us.
Food! It's central to our
lives and traditions.
to involve food and feasting.
But could some of
these same foods,
including several that we think
are good for our health,
also be causing many of our
Indeed, we're facing a
massive health crisis.
No less than 40% of
Americans today are obese,
and about half of us are taking
some form of prescription drug.
The best known statin
drug, Lipitor,
is the most prescribed
drug ever in the world.
Almost one in five
American four-year-olds
are now considered to be obese.
Though Mexican-Americans and
African-American children
are still more likely
to be overweight.
This could be the first
generation of children
lives less than its parents.
a year on health care,
over five times more
than the defense budget.
In fact, we pay more per
person for health care
than any industrialized
country in the world,
yet we're sicker than ever.
You see, there's no money
in healthy people,
and there's no money
in dead people.
The money is in the middle:
People who are alive, sort of,
but with one or more
chronic conditions.
Obesity, diabetes,
heart disease,
high blood pressure
are all diet-related
health issues
that cost this country more
than $120 billion each year.
Every minute, a person in the U.S.
die from cancer.
Combined, these
two diseases kill
over 1 million
Americans every year.
Cases of diabetes
are skyrocketing,
particularly among our
younger population.
- Diabetes.
- Diabetes.
Life-threatening diabetes.
One out of three people
born in the U.S. today
will develop this crippling
condition during their lifetime.
Millions of others suffer
from a host of
degenerative diseases.
Millions more of us are
so stimulated by sugar,
coffee, and energy drinks
that we've masked our
chronic fatigue.
a single solution
to all of these problems?
A solution so comprehensive,
yet so straightforward,
that it's mind-boggling
that more of us
haven't taken it seriously?
Someone has to stand up
and say that the answer
isn't another pill.
The answer is spinach.
researchers claim
that if we eliminate,
or greatly reduce,
refined, processed, and
animal-based foods,
we can prevent and, in
certain cases, even reverse
several of our worst diseases.
They say all we need to do
plant-based diet.
simple to be true.
You might not expect
someone like me
to explore the connection
between diet and disease.
On my way over, I drank
these two Red Bulls.
I also had a 12-ounce Coke
and another half of
a 12-ounce Coke.
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