FORKS OVER KNIVES claims that many degenerative diseases can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. Using the results of studies conducted by Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, the film puts the idea of food as medicine to the test. Cameras follow “reality patients” who have chronic conditions ranging from heart disease to diabetes as doctors teach them how to adopt a whole-foods, plant-based diet as the primary approach to treating their ailments.

Join Professor Joan Benson from the University of Utah College of Health for a discussion of current research on diet and disease prevention following the film.

Directed by Lee Fulkerson

Run time: 90 minutes

Rated PG

Science Movie Night is presented by the Natural History Museum of Utah in partnership with the Utah Film Center. We thank the Salt Lake City Public Library, our presenting sponsor.

This event is free and open to the public.