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What The Health Is Available By Kip Anderson And Kuhn

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Produced by Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn, the Netflix documentary What The Health is available. This documentary focuses on the connection between our dietary choices and both our health and the environment. In addition to talking about health issues, they also emphasize how corporations, the economy, and public policy all impact what we eat. One of the initial arguments claimed that the primary causes of cancer, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease are meat and dairy products. The advantages of a vegan diet are promoted and covered in this documentary. According to the movie, disease and our diets are more likely to be associated than causally tied to one another.The directors' belief that adopting a plant-based diet may alleviate chronic …show more content…

The movie demonstrates how director Kip Anderson learns the key to preventing and even curing chronic illnesses. It looks into why the top health groups in the country don't want us to know about it. The movie aims to highlight the main health problems, which include diabetes reaching an all-time high, heart disease and cancer being the two biggest causes of death in America. Processed meat contributes to diabetes and cancer. Diabetes is not brought on by sugar; rather, it is brought on by the accumulation of fat in the blood, which leads to insulin resistance and keeps the sugar from entering your cells, where it belongs. All attention has been diverted to sugar, ignoring poultry, pig, turkey, dairy products, and beef. The risk of acquiring diabetes rose by 51% with each daily plate of processed beef. When filmmaker Kip Anderson questioned an American Cancer Society cancer information specialist about why processed meats were advised, the specialist said, "Let me put you on a brief hold and get back with you." When he returned, he promised that someone would contact him later. Every fourth death in the country is a result of

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