
Want cancer, diabetes, heart disease? Then eat meat and dairy!
Forks Over Knives is a documentary now available to buy on DVD that shows how eating a plant based diet can cure diseases. It can reverse the effects that eating meat and dairy can cause, it can stop you having to take pills on a daily basis. Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn have both been inspired by the research discoveries they’ve made during their years in the medical industry which led them to the conclusion that meat and dairy is bad for humans. Eating meat can cause strokes, heart attacks, dairy has been shown to bring on more cancerous tumour growths, hypertension and diabetes and more. On this DVD the duo explain it.
More and more people are getting these diseases. There are some interesting quotes in the movie, one being ‘One quarter of what you eat keeps you alive, three-quarters of what you eat keeps your doctor alive’. The medical industry makes billions from the illness of humans. This is why many won’t just tell you to change your eating habits and cut out meat and dairy - and are just happy to keep giving you pills. Would they like to be out of a job? Hell no!
In the DVD you see a number of people who were on medication for diabetes or heart-related problems - and you see how thanks to a change to a plant-based diet they have combated those diseases and no longer need medication, becoming healthier, happier individuals.
Forks Over Knives is the DVD everyone that eats meat or dairy needs to watch. Everyone is always so happy to keep their eyes shut and pretend cruelty to animals doesn’t happen, as long as they can eat the food they like - but in years from now when you start needing medication on a daily basis, won’t you wish you’d done something about your eating habits? Won’t you regret the McMurder Burger you ate on a weekly or monthly basis? Or that slab of steak that wrapped its wings around your heart. Was it worth that taste to be unwell?
Forks Over Knives is inspiring from 30 seconds in - and doesn’t let up until the end. A definite, informative DVD to learn from, and for others to learn from too.
Watch this trailer and then order the full product. It’s well worth it - especially if it means you get to live longer!
Visit www.forksoverknives.com for more info.

Most of us, sadly, probably know someone who is fat, sick and/or nearly dead. Sometimes it’s ourselves. Other times it’s someone we love. Either way, it’s not good. However, Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead is here like Clark Kent in his Superman outfit to save the day. Or a few days. Or years.
This DVD/documentary is for anyone who needs to get a little healthier. Maybe someone who needs to lose a few, or a lot of pounds. Or someone who frequently visits the doctor with illnesses, conditions and to get medication.
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead is the journey of Joe Cross, an Australian who goes to America and juices for 60 days. He’s overweight, loaded on steroids and has an autoimmune disease. This DVD shows Joe’s willpower as he drinks juice instead of eating unhealthy food, losing weight and becoming healthier as he travels across America. He eats nothing – and just juices – for 60 days. He also meets Phil, a heavier American with the same autoimmune condition. Phil ends up also starting to juice, being unhappy with his weight and life – and loses so much weight his whole life changes. By the end of the documentary they are both so healthy they don’t need any medication anymore – and both look at least ten years younger.
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead is inspiring and educational. It’s like that white light shining down, showing you the way to a brighter, better future. At the end of the DVD I went online looking for juicers and making note to buy some kale (to go with some other fruit and veg I have here). I probably won’t make it to ten days just juicing like Joe and Phil, let alone 60 (especially when there are so many crisps in the cupboard and Tofutti cream cheese in the fridge!) – but this DVD was so inspiring that I’m at least going to have a go. If you think your lifestyle needs a kick up the ass you ought to watch this film and give it a go too. Or even if you don’t - it’s well worth watching. Probably the best film I’ve watched all year.
I received ‘Edge’, a documentary about straight edge/drug free culture by Marc Pierschel and Michael Kirchner, on DVD, for review in Black Velvet (mag). It’s now officially out and available to buy. I thought I’d give it a brief mention here as there’s an interview with animal rights activist Peter Young in the veganism/animal rights section on the DVD. Also, straight edge interviewees such as Karl Buechner of Earth Crisis/Freya, Ray Cappo of Youth Of Today/Shelter, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Bull Gervasi of R.A.M.B.O. are all vegan/vegetarian. Veganism can go hand in hand with being straight edge. Although on the whole the DVD is not primarily animal rights/vegan based, it’s well worth watching. Edge is produced by Compassion Media which is commited to promote a hierarchy-free, drugfree, ecologically sustainable, vegan lifestyle. More info is at http://www.edgethemovie.com