Foods That Cure Disease

You pay a lot of money to go on a weekend retreat that teaches lifestyle cooking with prominent lectures. I watched this for FREE on Prime Video. Lots of cooking demos that deconstructs complicated recipes that meat eaters enjoy into simple, healthy, inexpensive meals. Loved that they got THE prominent, credentialed, decades of experience, rockstars of medical research and medical practitioners to explain the science and outcomes from Cornell University, etc of the 40 plus years of the China Study and scores of the most recent research. Yes, probably newbies should look at Forks Over Knives or Diet Fiction or the soon-to-be-released Game Changers first. THIS is practical and informative and the cooking demos are fabulous. I watched in four sittings.

One of the doctors made a claim that there was a study done in Spain that got a sample population of individuals with perfect cardiovascular health and were randomly given a mediterranean diet with olive oil, a med diet with nuts and a low fat diet. His bold claim was that after 5 years the 2 groups with the med diets were dying or had heart related issues. I actually looked up the study called the PREDIMED Study and found that the exact opposite was true: diets that were rich in olive oil and nuts reduced their risk by 30% and there was criticism that the low fat group was altered. To disagree about a study is one thing but to go on and lie about the conclusions of that study on camera, they stated the exact oposite of what was concluded from that study.

I thought I knew everything about eating healthy and boy how wrong was I!! This is a long documentary however there are some delicious plant based recipes in between. Stay with it...I think its only fair to spend 4 hours on educating yourself on a topic that will probably stop you from an early death.

Wow, lots of salt and salty ingredients in the recipes. Interviews great resources, some of my favorite people, but apparently didn't ask any of them about salt. Ask Dr. Gregor about salt!!

So, unfortunately, was hoping for some cooking ideas and disappointed. All the interviews are pretty similar and better in other movies, like Forks Over Knives, including extended interviews.

There was some great information and recipes, I wish the guy had offered more of an argument, it was incredibly one sided, the whole meat and animal products are bad for you, using the states vsJapan isnt really fair. I'd like to have heard their opinion on why countries like Iceland who consume lots of diary and fish and one of the healthiest diets in the world, and dont eskimos eat nearly all animal fat? What about them, how do they do it? I've lived with people from Portugal who literally pour olive oil on their veg and they are healthy as horses and are living till their 90s Couldn't the people who suddenly went plant based heath increases be due to cutting out processed food and refined sugary crap? As long as half your plate is veggies salad or fruit and I cut out the crap I dont think they'll be a problem, fingers crossed !