 布莱恩·文德尔 2016年12月29日 拍摄《餐叉胜于手术刀》已经八年了，回头看从那时起世界有了多少难以置信的变化。2008年我已经是一位素食主义者，大约有7年主要吃完整食物的饮食，并长期对健康和营养有兴趣。通过个人经验和研究，我知道如何改变这种饮食方式。 这是在读了《中国研究》和一些其他的书籍以后，我认识到了证据的范围。国家死亡的首要原因心脏病，以及其他慢性疾病，通常可以通过完整的植物性饮食无害化。我想这不是值得作为纽约时报或新闻周刊的封面故事吗？数以百万计的人患有心脏病和2型糖尿病，但没有人给他们急需的救命信息。 我当时是一家商业地产公司的合伙人，没有电影制作背景。但我相信，电影是给广大观众传达信息最有效的方式。所以在2008年10月，我有了一个飞跃，一个大的飞跃，决定制作纪录片。尽管收到了几个投资申请，我还是决定用自己有限的预算投资自己的项目。我招募了一个屡获殊荣的制作团队，花了两年时间，制作成了电影《餐叉胜于手术刀》。 制作这部电影是我一生中最充实的经历。我的目标是让电影有说服力、可信，这就是为什么我们花时间让观众真正了解我们的先驱者，T.柯林·坎贝尔博士和卡德维尔·埃塞尔斯廷博士。我们很少花时间专注于负面，而是让影片有激励。我们对健康结果的控制比以前任何时候做的都多，这是一件好事！ 社会对这部电影的反应令人震惊。2010年夏天我们提前放映了大约30场，除了一场以外，其他的都是满座，电影院周围经常排队。有关电影的消息传播得很快，主要是社交媒体。2011年5月影片在全国影院上映，同年9月电影通过DVD、Netflix、和其他数字平台发行。同时配套的书在那年夏天成为纽约时报畅销书第一名。很明显，大量的人们准备获取信息，对能更多地控制他们自己的健康心存感激。 电影和配套书超出了我的想象，有这么多人被激励改变他们的饮食，那些寻求支持的人拯救了他们的生命。所以电影发行5年来，我们努力帮助那些走上基于植物旅途的人们。我们团队很高兴又做了三本书、一个移动应用程序、一个在线烹饪学校，一个膳食规划服务、一个网站，这是现在最流行的健康目的地之一。 人们已经准备好了这种自己掌握命运的生活方式，我相信潮流正在向好的方面转变。以植物为基础的饮食已经成为一种迅速增长的趋势，甚至肉类公司也在上船。现在这是一个大众话题，即使是最主流的健康出版物。曾经被认为是一种激进的饮食方式，正在被理解为健康的、正常的饮食方式。 我很荣幸成为这场基于植物的饮食运动的一部分，高兴地看到越来越多的人享受每年的生活方式。越来越多的专业人员，如医生、营养学家、研究人员、厨师和写博客的人，支持完整的、基于植物的生活方式，这给了我希望，有一天在我们生活的世界里，心脏病和2型糖尿病将只是一个非常罕见的现象。 原文网址 https://www./reflecting-forks-knives-film-became-movement/ POSTED ON DECEMBER 29, 2016 INWELLNESS Reflecting on Forks Over Knives,the Film That Became a Movement BY BRIAN WENDEL It hasbeen nearly eight years since I embarked on making Forks OverKnives, and it’s incredible to look back and see how much haschanged in the world since then. In 2008, I had already been eatinga vegan, predominantly whole-food diet for about seven years andhad been interested in health and nutrition for a long time. I knewthrough personal experience and research how transformative thisway of eating was. It wasafter I read The China Study and some other books that I came torealize the extent of the evidence. Heart disease, the country’sleading cause of death, and other chronic diseases can typically berendered harmless by a diet of whole-plant foods. I thought tomyself: Isn’t this worth a front-page story in The New York Timesor Newsweek? Millions of people are suffering from heart diseaseand type 2 diabetes, and no one is giving them the life-savinginformation they need. I was apartner in a commercial real estate firm at the time and had nobackground in film. But I was convinced that a film was the mosteffective way to bring the message to a broad audience. So inOctober 2008, I took a leap, a giant leap, and decided to make thedocumentary. I also decided to fund this project by myself on alimited budget, despite receiving several investment offers. Irecruited an award-winning production team and spent the next twoyears working on the film that would become Forks OverKnives. Making the film was the most fulfilling experience of my life.My goal was to make the film persuasive and relatable, which is whywe took the time to allow the audience to really get to know ourlead subjects, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Wespent little time focusing on the negatives and instead made thefilm about empowerment. We have more control over our healthoutcomes than we ever realized, and that’s a good thing! The reception to the film was astounding. We did about 30advance screenings beginning in the summer of 2010, all but one ofwhich were sold out and often there were lines around the theaters.News about the film spread quickly, mainly by social media. In May2011, the film was in theaters across the country; in September ofthe same year, the film was released on DVD, on Netflix, and otherdigital platforms. Meanwhile, the companion book that arrived thatsummer became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. It was clear thata large number people were ready for the message and were gratefulto have more control over their health. I didn’t think of anything beyond the film and companion book,but there were so many people who were inspired to change theirdiets and take back their lives that were looking for support. Sowe’ve stayed around and spent the last five years since the film’srelease endeavoring to help people on their plant-based journeys.Our team has enjoyed doing just that with three more books, amobile app, an online cooking school, a meal planning service, anda website that is one of the most popular health destinationstoday. People are ready for this self-empowering lifestyle, and Ibelieve the tide is turning favorably. Plant-based eating hasbecome such a rapidly growing trend that even meat companies arecoming on board, and it’s now a common topic of conversation amongeven the most mainstream health publications. What was once seen asa radical way of eating is coming to be understood as healthy andcommonplace. I feel honored to be part of this plant-based movement and amthankful to see more and more people enjoying the lifestyle everyyear. The growing number of professionals such as doctors,nutritionists, researchers, chefs, and bloggers who support thewhole-food, plant-based lifestyle gives me hope that someday wewill live in a world where heart disease and type 2 diabetes willbe nothing more than a very rare occurrence.
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