Two Must See Documentaries

If you haven't seen these two documentaries, then I highly recommend doing so NOW!  The first one is Food Inc.  It is a powerful documentary that reveals the industrial machine that produces the food that you eat everyday.  You will never walk into a grocery store and see it the same way again. And, hopefully, it will change the way you eat and what you put into your body. If you think that the meat you are eating comes from happy cows that are grazing in green fields or the eggs you consume come from healthy chickens that live in a peaceful barnyard, then you are sadly mistaken. Check out the trailer.
The second documentary that I recommend is Forks Over Knives. If you have any doubts as to whether a whole foods plant based diet has validity or is actually backed up by science, then this is the movie is for you.
Here's a bit of the synopsis:
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 animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.
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.
Here's the trailer to Forks Over Knives. I hope you take the time to view these documentaries.  They will change the way you  think about food and what you put into your body in a profound way!