Forks Over Knives Page #12

before you ever started

taking any pills.

Your blood pressure

is normal now,

compared to how it was

before while on pills.

It was still elevated.

And you just...

you know, you just said

you've never felt

like this before.

You look...

look at how you look in the pictures.

You look healthier.

So, you know, like

I told you before,

I explained how the

numbers can affect...

can affect our judgment

of what real health is.

And it's not just the numbers.

It's overall the entire picture,

and your picture

looks fantastic.

I was takin' nine pills

a day and two shots.

I was spending almost a 150

to 200 a month on medication,

above my insurance.

Just think about that: I've

been doin' it five months.

I've saved, you know,

$800 to a $1000 already,

'cause I haven't taken

one pill, one shot.

So think about what

that saved me...

not just me, the

insurance company.

The U.S. government will

give you figures

that 75% of the dollars

spent in health care

are due to chronic illnesses,

and these are due to

diet and lifestyle.

Let's get rid of the problem,

which is the sickness which

is caused by the food.

Now well into their 70s,

doctors Campbell and Esselstyn

are both vital and active.

They also continue to

spread their message.

If you carefully look

at our school children,

already the arteries

to their brain,

their carotid artery, is getting

some intimal medial thickening.

Dr. Esselstyn lectures

about his research

all over the United

States and abroad.

His wife Ann frequently

accompanies him

to help council patients

and to demonstrate

the preparation

of plant-based foods.

Dr. Esselstyn is also director

of the cardiovascular disease

prevention and reversal program

at the Cleveland clinic's

Wellness Institute.

Like Dr. Esselstyn, Dr. Campbell

continues to lecture

throughout America and beyond.

Dr. Campbell, you believe that

even if animal-based proteins,

meat, dairy, et cetera...

are free from contamination,

you don't think people

should eat them?

No, I don't.

I think the closer we get

to a plant-based diet...

I should say a whole-foods,

plant-based diet,

the healthier we're going

to be for all of us.

In China, where Dr. Campbell

did his large study

a generation ago,

the population has experienced

dramatic increases

in the amount of meat,

dairy, and processed foods

the average person consumes.

At the same time,

the rates of degenerative

diseases are skyrocketing.

Many Chinese now share

some of the same beliefs

Americans have about nutrition.

Dr. Campbell's message

is resonating

with growing numbers

of concerned people

around the world.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thanks to the efforts

of both these pioneers

and their colleagues,

thousands of people

are realizing

that profound improvements

in health and quality of

life are within reach.

You have two choices:

You can eat yourself into

poor health and early death,

or you can eat yourself

into good health

and a long, healthy life.

And that road is on a plant-

centered dietary pattern.

You know, I know of

nothing else in medicine

that can come close to what

a plant-based diet can do.

I can say this with a

great deal of confidence,

that our national authorities

are simply excluding

this concept of nutrition from

the debate and the discussion

in order to protect

the status quo.

In theory, if everyone

were to adopt this,

I really believe we could cut

health care costs by 70% to 80%.

That's amazing.

And it all comes from

understanding nutrition,

applying nutrition, and

just watchin' the results.

The greatest gift that

you could possibly give

to yourself and your family,

not only those in

your generation,

but your children and

your grandchildren,

if you can make them be aware

of the incredible power that

resides within each of them

to avoid life's most poignantly

tragic and painful events,

you just don't have to have

those kinds of events.

I believe that

with all my heart,

if anyone listen to this,

and they really should look

at their refrigerator,

and look at their

diet, and give a try.

You lose weight, and

you'll be healthier.

Nothing could lose

if you just take

few weeks and try.

You could see how easy it is.

I'm not gonna say

it was difficult.

Again, I made up my mind,

this is what I'm going to do.

I never felt like I wasn't

getting what I wanted.

So I didn't have ice cream, so

I didn't have the doughnuts,

so I ate something else.

I can thank them in every

way I can think possible,

and my doctor, especially Matt,

and they just can't

understand what it's done

to change my life.

And it really has.

Not just mine, my

family's, everybody's.

It gives me shivers

talking about it,

because it's so serious.

It's a life-changing experience.

You can be in control,

and I stress this, 'cause

there's so many things

going on in my life that

I'm not in control of.

And that's my message.

You can control your

outcome of your body.

Eat to live and

don't live to eat.

You better get that.

You better get the recipe.

This is good.

sleep, don't visit

so I choke on the sun

and the days burn into one

backs of my eyes

of the things

I've never done

sheets are swayin'

from the old clothesline

like a row of

captured ghosts

over dead grass

was never much but

we made the most

welcome ho oh oh ah ah home

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ah ah ha ha ha ha home

ha ha oh ah ah ah home

ships

are launching

from my chest

some have names

but most do not

if you find one, please

let me know what

piece I've lost

peel the scars from

off my back

I don't need them anymore

you can throw them out

keep them in your Mason jars

I've come ho oh

oh ah ah home

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ah ah ha ha ha ha home

ha ha oh ah ah ah home

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