Forks Over Knives

This week's video was a long one which took us two periods to finish. But it was a good watch. It gave me a new perspective on how much and what kinds of food I should be eating to stay healthy. I found the statistics they showed us to be quite fascinating in that they could prevent and reverse diseases with a whole-food plant-based diet that medicines simple couldn't. But as our professor pointed out "There is no money in dead or healthy people" so company's want people to stay sick for the rest of their lives so that they keep on buying that company's medicine for the rest of that sick person's life. A student pointed out the fact that there was no need to go and completely change your diet to a whole-food plant-based one as the doctors test on rats revealed that a 5% intake of total food as being protein was fine whereas 20% was not. So we can still enjoy meat albeit at a smaller quantity if we want to increase our chances of not having lots of body problems when we get older. But I get where the Forks Over Knives people are coming from as if they said that meat was okay to eat in a person's diet some people might just ignore all of the other evidence they said about eating a lot of meat as being detrimental to your health. I also liked the lady at the end's quote in which she stated that we should "Eat to live. Don't live to eat" which I took to mean that we should eat healthier foods so that we live longer rather than stuff like fast food which tastes good to a lot of people but is harmful to their bodies. The fact that a MMA fighter was able to compete without eating meat was also surprising to me because one would typically expect fighters to eat a lot of meat as that gives you a lot of protein which is something that a ton of people say those who work out a lot should be doing. But in this case it appears that that was not necessary as he is able to stay in great shape without consuming any meat and fight with other people at that level.

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