Popular science? brainwashing? After reading it, it seems that I believe it, but it's really scientific.

Ruthe 2022-01-19 08:02:55

After watching it, it really caused a lot of psychological impact on me. I even introduced and recommended this documentary to people everywhere, especially if I wanted to make up lessons for my family in the first time, but after thinking about it again, this film is really good. Objective science. In general, I still give 5 stars, which can at least popularize some scientific common sense that everyone should have known long ago, although I do not agree with some of its core views.

Reflecting on it, I feel that the viewpoint of the film is too extreme. The science component is less than the brainwashing component. Junk food, refined food, high fat, high calorie must be punished, but is it really necessary to overdo it and become a vegetarian? So Zhihu asked some questions:

1. Documentary: The secret under the knife and fork (a fork is better than a scalpel), is it science? This documentary seems to have used a lot of scientific experiments to support its views, but how does it feel so one-sided? Many issues have not been clearly stated. Meat eating (omnivorous to be precise) must be unhealthy?

Eating grass must be healthy? 2. In terms of diet, is animal diet or overnutrition or other reasons leading to the high incidence of cancer, heart disease and diabetes?

3. I like sports and fitness. For the time being, I don’t ask whether vegetarianism is good for gaining muscle. I only ask whether vegetarianism can keep people who need a lot of protein healthy?

4 Vegetarianism may also cause obesity due to excessive calorie intake. Doesn't it cause diseases such as cancer or diabetes?

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Forks Over Knives quotes

  • [last lines]

    Evelyn Oswick: You *can* be in control. And I stress this, because 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 out come of your body. Eat to live, and don't live to eat.

  • San'Dera Brantley-Nation - Diabetes Sufferer: Win the war. Do not let one lost battle end the war. If you do break down and give in to temptation, do not quit, just get right back on track, not tomorrow but right now.