“I hope it gets people to think – that’s really the intent of the film. I’m really not a person that likes to tell people what to do, or say what they should and shouldn’t do, but I feel like they haven’t been presented with this information – many people are just unaware of it – and I think, after they see this, if they go home and go “hm…” and begin to think about their diets and consider consuming more plant foods, that would be something I’d really like to see people get out of this movie. I hope to see the diet change in this country. We’ve tried the animal-based diet and it really hasn’t worked out for us, so I’m hoping to see us trend toward a more plant-based diet because I think it’ll be better for people’s health and for the planet.”

—Brian Wendel, Creator and Executive Producer of Forks Over Knives, in an interview with HLifeMedia. The film, which had a series of screenings sponsored by Whole Foods, is set for release in theatres March 11, 2011. Forks Over Knives follows the research of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, an author and nutritional biochemist from Cornell University, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a former top surgeon at Cleveland Clinic who was instrumental in Bill Clinton going vegan, as they come to the conclusion that many of the major “diseases of affluence”, such as heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and cancer, can be prevented and in some cases reversed by following a plant-based diet.

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