The rise in popularity of environmental food documentaries, such as Food Inc. and Fresh, have opened people's eyes to the way they've been eating, about where and how their food is made. The newest film about our food industry, Forks Over Knives, asks, "What if we could cure sicknesses without medicine? What if our nation's health crisis could be solved?" This food film focuses on the numerous health problems that our way of eating is causing and how we can reverse the damage we're doing to our bodies – simply by changing our diets and rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.
This article appears in Feb 10-16, 2010.