The 2011 film that launched the whole-food, plant-based movement — and turned 'food as medicine' into a phrase millions now live by.
Episode Summary
If you watch one film on this list, start here. Forks Over Knives follows two soft-spoken researchers — a Cleveland Clinic surgeon and a Cornell biochemist — who spent their careers stumbling onto the same quiet finding: that much of the chronic disease we treat with pills and procedures can be prevented, and often reversed, by what we put on our forks. Director Lee Fulkerson tests it on himself, and weaves in everyday people whose health turns around on screen. It's the clearest, most human introduction to the idea behind everything we cook at House of Health — that whole, plant-rich food is one of the most powerful tools you've been given. Runtime ~1h 36m (2011).
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The People Behind It
Lee Fulkerson
Writer & Director
Lee Fulkerson wrote and directed Forks Over Knives, and put himself on camera as a test subject — adopting a whole-food, plant-based diet and watching his own blood pressure and cholesterol fall over the course of filming. He built the documentary around the decades of research of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn and Dr. T. Colin Campbell.