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As another reviewer has stated, I have reservations against the movie being soft on sugar and the effect it has. Now while there might be more factors rather than just the sugar, no one should downplay the effect of it. It's also strange that only the same people are being asked and all of them are very much anti-meat. Having said all that, it's also very strange that certain organisations get sponsored by firms they probably should warn consumers about.

So there is a lot going on and you probably shouldn't just take everything as truth, but don't dismiss it either. The movie may be able to make you think about the way you eat or maybe even change your diet alltogether. The one thing that is necessary while watching though, is being open minded. It does paint quite a dark picture on almost anything we eat, so it won't be easy. But also listen when it tells us about coorporations trying to sell us products they shouldn't be selling us ...

The negative reviewers here did not watch the full documentary. This documentary is an evidence-based and that's fact. Non USA Government funded research (what I call agendasearch) is presented in this documentary. Without getting too biased I can tell you as a clinician what I have seen a plant-based diet do is amazing. "Look at the research and facts presented and go look for yourself." That was the message I received watching this.

I would have liked to see arguments from the other side, but when your living in a nation that has 30 million people with diabetes it is hard to listen to what has been preached during the rise of so many of these chronic and autoimmune diseases anymore. If you graphed meat consumption starting after WWI as one variable alongside the rise of disease they would both correlate nicely.

When we see a documentary that helps explain the rise of trillion dollar business we can begin to understand our health was never considered from the beginning. Watch this again and do some more digging on your own if you gave this a negative review.

It is amazing how people reject new information and claim that this documentary is just vegan propaganda but they do not complain about the propaganda that raised them to eat meat, milk, cheese, and consume medicines for every little discomfort.

Loved the film.

All these bad reviews aren't based on true facts but on doubt. It is normal behavior to get angry when another person comes up with conclusions that doesn't resonate with our own beliefs. You probably have these thoughts because doctors not yet have found "the cure" for every disease..

Look at people at the retirement homes..Do they look healthy? can they walk, remember, are they super energetic? most often the answer is no..

I have now seen thousands of remarkable situations, which you can see on Mcdougall site.. There was this man who could not walk, talk, feed himself or remember. He changed his diet, and even took his driver license again, played crazy memory games and can now talk again..

I can tell you that Dr. T. Colin Campbell was raised on a farm, and he believed that milk, eggs and meat were natures best food, until he found that several illnesses DIDN'T EXCIST in Asia.. until their kids got the typical Western diet (meat, cheese, eggs, and guess what. these kids got diabetes, cancer, stroke... (these people were eating mostly plant based with little to no meat)

He began studying mice, and tried to feed them animal protein.. what happened? The cancer cells GREW! then they reduced the animal protein and the cancer cells reduced...

Dr. Mcdougall used to eat A LOT of fast food and even got the stroke..

Neal Bearnard used to see his mother carefully pour the grease into a jar and use again..

NONE of these doctors were raised plant based, but they became unpopular, because they were more interested in making people healthy than profit (medicine)

Doctors have little to NO education on how diet can prevent and reverse stroke, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, acne, dementia, Alzheimer's, Astma, and more..

What is so bad about turning one belief to another? It can safe lives. From a very young age, kids are thought to believe one thing, and cannot see things from other perspectives.

I can tell that I used to eat so much meat, gravy, cheese and thought I was fine... I had terrible joint paints, acne, felt tired, and after going vegan, the symptoms were GONE And I'm NEVER EVER SICK(!) I have muscles now, and have so much energy, and I never thought I could feel so light and energetic...

They are not promoting Sugar, but saying that saying that sugar does not have any effect on the body alone...

These doctors have told to eat FRUIT SUGAR which is ABSOLUTELY not the same as refined sugar, which in great amounts can cause bad teeth...

There is a lot of information to find on YouTube with plant based diets, Ted Talks for example, and speeches from the doctors.. Not everything is what we believe, so it is our own responsibility to research

What if someone told you there was another way to do something and you got mad? Just educate yourself, and see how much your life can improve...

Anyone who left a 7* or less rating just isn't getting it, sadly. Or they didn't watch the entire thing, or they love our government. This is not a vegan propaganda. This is entirely about all the crap we don't realize we are eating, and how it kills us, and also how eating a plant based diet is soooooo healthy. I mean come on people. You honestly don't understand how eating a plant based diet is so much better for us? Really?! You think all the animals we kill to eat are so healthy and holy and blessed and make sure that they don't allow any crap into their bodies?! Our world is overpopulated so we need to mass produce the animals. How to do that? Steroids, antibiotics, not caring about how they're raised, not thoroughly and gently treating them all as they need to be treated because we are eating them. I am very saddened at how many negative reviews there are. That's a shame. You think we all get cancer just because? Just for the heck if it? NO. It comes from somewhere you fools. What do we do the most on our lives? Eat. Just sit back and think about it. Y'all are just to ignorant, naive and LAZY to eat a plant based diet. God forbid you do something to make a complete change to your life.

Last year, near my 18th birthday..I stumbled upon a documentary while researching the ill effects of animal agriculture and environmental destruction, got to watch "Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret" from the same directors and writers. It changed my life, basically changed the way I lived my life.

After discovering the big ugly lie that we are told about how the environmental crisis is all and just because of the fossil fuels. It goes on uncovering how the majority of us eat is killing the planet. I went full vegan, right then and there with my family of five. The FACTS were in front of me. Peer- reviewed studies. I highly recommend everybody to watch that.

Now this one is sort of a sequel to Cowspiracy. Brings us to the next big issue effecting everybody but in a more personal way. HOW YOUR DIET IS KILLING YOU! The best kept secret in medicine is that your body wants to heal itself, if given the right chance and conditions. It was lovely to see all my superheroes in one feature: Dr. Micheal Greger, Caldwell Esselstyn, Neal Bernard and many more. This is a perfect documentary to show to your friends and family and I don't this any sane person would turn away from this and not at the least consider veganism as a way of life.

As I like to put it, you go vegan for a reason and stay for a hundred.

There are some facts in here, but are presented in a deceitful manner. Information on the nutrition is absolutely ridiculous. They call OMEGA 3 fattys acids unhealthy. They ignore the fact that b12 and taurine which you can only really get from meat is essential to a human being. Just a vegan documentary that's pretentious.

WHAT THE HEALTH was a very entertaining documentary specifically aimed at the meat eating crowd and making them realize that their on the road to hell if they keep their diets unaltered. Meat from cows, fish, poultry and dairy foods take the beat. The documentary features what you'd expect from a diehard vegan producer: government conspiracies, health agencies being sponsored by the companies responsible for the junk food you eat, the pharmaceutical industry's perennial blame that they want to keep people "sick" in order to sell their drugs, etc. Most of the evidence is compelling, until the documentary turns into a vegan commercial with testimonies from people who changed their diets and experienced "miraculous" changes in their health. Funny thing is, WHAT THE HEALTH never talks about the veggies you eat, the pestecides they use in farming, the toxic waters used to feed these plants, etc. It's a very one sided view of things. I rarely eat meat. I actually eat more vegetables than processed meats, but I just found this documentary very subjective. I'm sure eating more veggies and fruits will make for a more healthy diet, but if that's so, how did our ancestors survive for thousands of years by eating (at times) raw and uncooked meat?!?!? That's something that's never addressed in this vegan documentary.

"one egg a day can be as bad as smoking five cigarettes per day" Get the F out of Here.

I got to see the world premiere in NYC followed by a Q&A with the directors. I found it very captivating. The documentary entertains, shocks, informs, angers and inspires you. If you watch how they try to investigate health organizations and medical facilities, I think you'll be baffled by the frankness with which they refuse to discuss important information regarding saving people's lives. The personal stories in the film give you hope that there is a better way to how we are going about our diet and health care. We can have a better option than just suddenly dying of cancer or heart disease after a few decades of life if the information, such as in this documentary, would be exposed to the public. I hope people will take a look at the significance of diet after watching this. People would not demonize carbs and sugar as much if they would realize what they're calling carbs contains tons of fat. Pizza is not a carb; it is carbs with a bunch of fat from cheese and processed meat and oil. Potatoes get a bad wrap, but people cover them in butter, sour cream, cheese, bacon, salt, oil and any other unhealthy food you could think of. The combo of fats and carbs leaves your body unable to handle the carbohydrates as they cannot be absorbed into your cells; that is how diabetes arises. People don't even understand what a true high-carb diet entails: plain potatoes, rice, oats, lots of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, without adding salt, oil, meat and dairy to all their meals. I hope this film clears that up for people.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

Filmmaker Kip Anderson dedicated his life to what he believed was a healthy eating regime, having had various relatives suffer health problems, some of which led to their deaths. But he, like many, was stunned at a shock announcement from the World Health Orgaization, that all forms of meat were a leading cause of heart disease and cancer. Yet he was shocked to find on the websites of several leading health groups in the US that meat continued to be depicted as a healthy eating option. He then went on a journey to uncover the truth, and uncovered a shocking web of hidden risks, human rights violations and those serving to protect us lying in bed with the companies behind the meat products, before exploring the benefits of adopting a Vegan based diet.

After 2004's Super Size Me played to a wider than imagined audience, and exposed an unsavoury truth behind one of the big boys of the corporate world, big business learned the power of the independent documentary, and its power to appeal to the masses and resist their mind numbing influence. And it's probably no coincidence that since then, hardly any with similar goals have enjoyed anything like that kind of exposure (da lawyers!) And so a documentary like What the Health is substantially harder to come by. But, for all its faults, it's still hugely beneficial if you do.

Without a big company to support it, and with the independent production values intact, the massively low budget does frequently shine through, giving the project a slightly cheap, tacky look which Anderson covers over with the zest for his quest. The trouble is, especially towards the end, he appears tonally unsure and starts throwing in wildly elaborated comedy sketches which feel out of place. The pro vegan lifestyle alternative also suddenly shoots out of nowhere towards the end, and does feel like a bit of a bombardment that doesn't fit the tongue well. However, he still chats to a wide range of medical experts, who provide illuminating and interesting insights into how various foods affect our bodies and why a plant based diet is the only truly natural way to keep ourselves healthy.

It's all put together a bit too haphazardly to be a ground-breaking documentary feat, but it's still a rewarding experience that will provide you with some highly beneficial, eye-opening information. ***

As a medical student, the biochemistry and physiology regarding the human body are simply incorrect. As well, the entire film is biased against meat and diary because of an extreme influence from vegans. Instead of being centred around the topic of 'health,' it's instead pushing the pro-vegan/pro-vegetarian agenda. I've been a vegetarian for 12 years, and a vegan off-and-on within that, and regardless of that I believe it's my duty as a healthcare professional to inform anyone who watches the film that the studies and and doctors cited were selected in order to produce a confirmation bias. If anyone has a basic understanding of diabetes (ie. sugar), they'd be able to find errors within the first ten minutes.

If you're going to watch this documentary, watch it with a skeptical mind.

If you really care about your family you need to watch this The documentary was crowd funded by people that care ...

Wake up, you have been fed fake advertising about food for decades With the amount of science we understand that what we were told was healthy really isn't Driven by profits from unethical corporations... This made me angry and I hope you wake up too Self-educate, your family's life depends on it

'WHAT THE HEALTH': Five Stars (Out of Five)

The new highly anticipated documentary from Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn; the two filmmakers that also brought us the critically acclaimed environmental doc 'COWSPIRACY: THE SUSTAINABILITY SECRET' (which is immensely popular with vegans). Anderson and Kuhn both once again wrote, produced and directed the film. This time they set out to prove how directly responsible meat and dairy consumption is for most of the major health problems that people have today. It's been advertised as "The Health Film That Health Organizations Don't Want You To See". The movie was funded through a successful Indiegogo campaign, where the filmmakers raised over $235,000. I think it's definitely a film that everyone needs to see, I loved it!

Director Kip Anderson stars in and narrates the film, as he investigates his main thesis; that meat and dairy consumption has caused nearly all of the major health problems in people (throughout modern history). He interviews multiple physicians, medical officers, nutritionists and other health experts about the subject. He continuously tries to find out why the truth has been hidden from the public for so long (and big business, of course, plays a major part in it). Anderson also further investigates the many benefits of a vegan diet, as he did in his last movie, and he informs the viewer of how it can help us all avoid these many serious health concerns.

The movie is very educational and passionate, but it also doesn't overly force it's vegan message on the viewers. I knew it was going that way, from the beginning, but it very rationally (and quite logically) comes to that conclusion. Like'COWSPIRACY', it never focuses too much on animal cruelty (there's actually none of that in this film). It stays completely focused on the horrendous health concerns with having an animal product diet. 'COWSPIRACY' focused on the horrible environmental damages due to that poor diet choice, and this film focuses (almost) solely on the health concerns of it (and it does a beautiful job). It's one of the best documentaries I've ever seen!

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Jane chapman after years of suffering severe osteoarthritis and taking a gigantic amount of drugs gets rid of her walker and appears hanging out and walking down the street due to a miraculous recovery on her illness??? who in the f$ck is going to believe this??? I believe Netflix is promoting this kind of fake documentary that don't carry any real ideological content, period.

This is incredible. Hats off to the producers for seeking the truth. People need to stop turning a blind eye and wake up to the facts. Everyone needs to watch this documentary as soon as they possibly can! It's amazing how much our lives are controlled and influenced by the government and their greed for money.

This documentary reflects our ugly behaviours with our bodies. It's like we are not conscious what we eat. And in fact, we aren't. Because we don't even know what our food contains at all...

OK. I give it an 8 not for presenting an objective and unbiased position (its HIS documentary guys, not a bloody research paper). I give it an 8 because it raised a couple of huge points that most of the critics seemed to sweep over. I'm going to premise the rest of my comments here by noting that I believe the biggest enemy to a rational and logical discussion about the very, life changing issue of diet is emotion. At the end of the day we all want to have long health lives, no? So, lets discuss it. This guy had a crack at it so good on him.

It is up to us to draw our own conclusions. But again there are some big take aways here despite its apparent biased position that people seem to miss. Firstly, the collusion between food companies and apparent government authorities/bodies or any central body responsible for providing lifesaving and preventative information? They should be completely and fully independent and must be for them to have any credibility whatsoever. And they clearly do not so take everything they say with a grain of salt.

Point 2: Is the science he made reference to all encompassing? Absolutely not. But at least there were some references and citations to some studies to consider (and they did not say sugar wasn't bad for you). Regarding comments from the doctors. Well, yes they are providing their personal experience but I think it safe to say they have direct experience dealing with these problems and as practitioners of health they do so based on science so quite likely they've done extensive research so I don't fully discount what they have to say. And what is their vested interest? Well, besides promoting themselves they are promoting an alternate consideration to a healthy life style. And here's the thing. As Americans, we have a dreadfully poor track record when it comes to health and fitness compared to others in the G20. Clearly there is a lot of information floating around about diet and much of it influenced or engineered toward a specific message for the sake of the almighty dollar. I suggest we all focus on starting there in solving this problem before we can even think about anything else so we can get some honest, objective, credible science on this critical topic.

This movie had me riveted from the get go. The graphic footage of factory farm practices was enough to put me off eating cow, pig and fowl immediately. The revelations about big corporate and pharma money buying silence did not surprise me, nor did governmental corruption. However, in studying for my degree in psychology and how research and statistics work, I have also learned the importance of critical thinking. I have been suffering with digestive issues for years and after watching this film, I thought perhaps this is the answer to my problems. But before becoming vegan, I wanted to verify the facts. Afterall, movies can be edited to suit anyone's agenda if they have a specific slant (in this case veganism). I read the research paper about the movie's claim that dairy intake has been positively linked to breast cancer. As someone with a family history of this awful disease, I wanted to know if I was truly at higher risk if I ingest dairy products. Although the study being relied on to confront the breast cancer support advocates was proper, random, controlled testing (RCT, truly the only way to completely verify and replicate results so that it shows a direct causation and not just a correlation - too many confounding variables) the study clearly states that while there is replicable evidence that dairy consumption is linked to breast cancer, it also clearly states that the evidence shows absolutely NO increased risk for those ingesting non-fat dairy. Why was this important fact not mentioned in the movie? This important omission bothers me. Although there were many good and salient points in the film that gave me pause, this omission made me think I should also check all of the other facts. Since watching the movie I have switched to mostly vegan, but that lack of full disclosure of a study that was used to make a heavy point about dairy reminds me that we all really need to listen, but to also be critical and skeptical (not cynical) until we research all the facts ourselves and not rely on movies that may edit out important info that might make a difference in helping us to make informed decisions. I have cut out most animal products but I continue to eat non fat dairy based on the full text of the study referred to in the movie.

I will preface this review by stating 2 things: 1. I am a researcher by profession. I regularly review health studies for a living and analyze the strength of evidence and how to share results with the public. 2. I only had the patience to watch the first 30 minutes of this documentary.

Where to start about this movie? From watching the first 30 minutes of this documentary, it is easy to tell what Kip Andersen's objective is for this film: to uncover the "conspiracy" that corporations are "covering up" evidence that animal products are linked with common diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Here is the predicable format: tell personal story, talk to a couple experts, show animation of "stuff in body", flash a peer reviewed study on screen showing evidence, call an 800 number for national organization demanding to know why their organization is advocating something that goes against the conclusion of this single study, and act very angry and justified in your belief of the "cover up" because person on the phone cannot answer your question.

This documentary has all the hallmarks of bad communication on scientific studies. First, one study reaching a conclusion is not "proof" of anything. You need to have multiple studies that show the same type of result. Second, association is not causation. That would be like observing that children who are tutored average worse grades than children who were not tutored and concluding that tutoring causes lower grades. There are other factors that you need to account for. They might be hard to measure, but they might be the real cause that two things are associated. Third, "increased risk" measures can be misleading on the surface. For example, a study could say that drinking milk was associated a 50% increase in the risk of developing cancer. This sounds frightening! But read further and you could find that 1% of one group had cancer and 1.5% of the other group had cancer. Does that really sound so scary after all?

At any rate, I don't think that everything that the film presented is false. I do think there are harms associated with the consumption of animal products, particularly processed meats. However, the way this film presents the evidence does not make a sound argument and the approach to presenting the material was so predictable and repetitive!