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Forks Over Knives
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Forks Over Knives is the company blog at forksoverknives.com, writing about health. Since 2012, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Forks over knives and Plant based diet”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Forks Over Knives empowers people to live healthier lives by changing the way the world understands nutrition. Find out more here.
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- Forks over knives and Plant based diet3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-25
- /how-tos/plant-based-primer-beginners-guide-starting-plant-based-diet/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-04
- /the-film/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-02
- How Does Fat Affect Insulin Resistance and Diabetes?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-16
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-07
- /the-latest/the-myth-of-complementary-protein/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-27
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The documentary Forks Over Knives has a segment about people with cancer given days or weeks to live and they follow a whole food vegan diet and live for much, much longer. The documentary was enough for me to instantly give up meat then, a few years later, go full vegan. I’ve known a few people who were diagnosed with cancer since then and gave them the recommendation but, alarmingly, they weren’t open to giving up…
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on “Things to know when you get cancer”Submitted New Olive Oil Study Sparks Questions for Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eaters as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe incomplete protein thing is a myth [1]. With anything close to a normal diet with a sufficient quantity of protein, the completeness of that protein has no effect on your physiology. Completeness becomes important only in severely deficient diets, where essential amino acids remain deficient for days or weeks. Likewise, bioavailability is not an important consideration in any reasonable diet. Your body can use o…
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on “Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut”Submitted How Does Fat Affect Insulin Resistance and Diabetes? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSure. My diet looks like this for example: - Breakfast: oatmeal with fruit - Lunch: rice and beans with vegetables (cooked or raw) - Dinner: mashed potatoes with carrots and onions or whole wheat pasta with tomatoes and spinach, etc. Snacks: fruits (usually bananas and tangerines because they are so portable), dried fruits, unsalted/unroasted nuts Condiments: all herbs, spices, salt (limited), nuts, seeds. No oil. I…
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on “Machine Learning and Ketosis”Submitted Leading causes of death utilizing mainly scientific research from the last year as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCarbohydrates do not make you fat. I am eating a high carb vegan diet and have lost 63 pounds since last October. My weight loss: http://imgur.com/a/cGb4X I do not restrict the amount of food I eat. I snack and have big meals. Carbs do not make you fat. Eating high caloric density foods makes you fat. More resources: http://nutritionfacts.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5wfMNNr3ak http://www.forksoverknives.co…
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on “Machine Learning and Ketosis”Submitted Do Potatoes Cause Diabetes? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe incomplete protein thing is a myth [1]. The amino acid profile of single ingredients is almost never a concern in practice, because meals nearly always contain complimentary proteins. It's actually really difficult to avoid complimentary proteins if you have anything like normal dietary habits. Furthermore, it's not even necessary for every meal to provide all essential amino acids, as long as your diet isn't ch…
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on “Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal”Submitted Forks over knives and Plant based diet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRight? While they don't begin to approximate beef, I've tried these two recipies and like them https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/five-ingredient-vegg... https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/basic-veggie-burger-... For health reasons I've spent the past year trying to give up meat and other animal products, to eat whole food plant based, and I've found every approximation of meat to just be blah and have jus…
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on “One-quarter of the world’s pigs died in a year due to swine fever in China”https://www.forksoverknives.com/the-film/
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on “The protein Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s”So goes eating a whole plant based vegan diet. https://www.forksoverknives.com/science-says-about-diet-and-...
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on “Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading, New Research Shows”The simplicity of "switch to a whole foods, plant-based diet and you simply won't die from heart disease" has eased my similar anxieties. http://www.heartattackproof.com/ See also the related documentary, http://www.forksoverknives.com/ .
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on “Avoiding Heart Disease”Olive oil was never a health food to begin with. It's about as healthy as sugar water. http://www.forksoverknives.com/nutrition-questions/#why-shou...
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on “Most olive oils sold in the United States are adulterated or deceptively labeled”> medicines, cancer... http://www.forksoverknives.com
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on “You're solving the wrong problem”As an alternative, check out a whole-food plant based diet. Many foods in the standard American diet (junk food like chips and sweets, meat, dairy, eggs, oils, even fish) are generally very calorie-dense -- you don't have to eat much of them to be over-eating calories, and eating an appropriate amount doesn't fill you up. If you switch to getting your calories from whole grains, beans and legumes, potatoes, rice (id…
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on “New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat”Your recipe sound very similar to one of my favourites. https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/vegan-soups-stews/le...
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on “‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US”Not an authoritative source just a fyi, the forksoverknives [0] (informative film if you've not seen it) site: - Whole foods describes natural foods that are not heavily processed. That means whole, unrefined, or minimally refined ingredients. - Plant-based means food that comes from plants and doesn’t include animal ingredients such as meat, milk, eggs, or honey. I've mostly seen the term 'plant-based' to different…
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on “Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide analyses of 475K people”Heh, you're talking about me. Eggs: https://www.forksoverknives.com/whats-wrong-with-eggs/#gs.Sd... https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-choline-and-cancer/ Fish: https://www.forksoverknives.com/is-fish-a-health-food-or-hav... https://nutritionfacts.org/video/omega-3s-and-the-eskimo-fis... If it's a food you can't live without, having it once in a while on special occasions isn't going to hurt you much, just like s…
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on “Rise in cancers 'caused by weight'”I was going to post a link to this movie. I think they have it on AMZN Prime. Netflix has it. It's pretty inspirational, and discusses a great way to eat. Another one of interest is Forks Over Knives, which talks about the benefits of eating a mostly plant based diet. http://www.forksoverknives.com/
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on “No Bread, Beer or Biscuits: How I Lost 63lbs in 100 Days”You are brave for bringing up physiologically appropriate [1], T-2 diabetes-reversing [2], artery un-clogging [3], heart disease-reversing [4], plant-based [5] diets. It's truly amazing how many petulant adults just don't want to eat their vegetables and would rather invent "caveman" ideological fantasies [6], and other nonsense, to justify their indoctrinated beliefs [7, 8]. 1. https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/ed…
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on “Medical guidelines don’t include a diet low in carbohydrates”Im not on dialysis im saying how Ive made my kidneys healthier then they have ever been. From 55 kidney function to 80 (in 7 months) and increasing. I follow the FB Group Natural Kidney Journey .. the person who set it up is now dialysis free (im not sure about his water intake) https://www.forksoverknives.com/from-3-percent-kidney-functi... Overall downvote me all you want i was just wanted to tell others that goin…
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on “Artificial kidneys and miniaturized dialysis could save millions of lives”I was diagnosed in September and looking back at my 2016 labs I see I had been living with only 55 percent kidney function (had no idea .. no symptoms.. you may not until it's too late) for whoever knows how long. Most doctors aren't helpful and just say it cant be reversed ... hogwash .. what you put in your body matters. If you feed it processed crap and crap that is harder to break down then water and a say a nat…
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on “Artificial kidneys and miniaturized dialysis could save millions of lives”Its almost 100% certain - if your vegan diet looks exactly like a standard American diet (using substitutes) - you will gain weight unless you're meticulous about counting calories. If you want to be healthy on a vegan - do not eat vegan junk food. Being healthy on a vegan diet means eating whole foods - minimally processed. The food you eat should be high in fiber, low in fat, and high in water content. Most of you…
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on “Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health”Counter argument: 40 Recipes for Ripe and Overripe Bananas https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/vegan-menus-collecti...
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on “Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste”It's possible that the author suffered from what might be called "vegetable deficiency" disease. See for example this MD who cured her Lupus with better nutrition: https://www.forksoverknives.com/stroke-doctor-reversed-lupus... Or this other MD who cured her MS with better nutrition: https://terrywahls.com/ See also for general background: http://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/news/the-whole-foods-diet Vitamin D deficie…
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on “What Flannery O’Connor taught me about chronic illness”>> Hostess Twinkees, Hohos, Ring Dings, etc. are all very good examples of plant-based food. >Sure, but that's not what people are talking about when they refer to plants in the context of health and nutrition. Citation needed. Specifically, this definition[0] disagrees with your opinion , allowing "higly processed foods" and "refined sweeteners" in a plant-based diet (necessittating a newly-invented acronym WFPB [1…
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on “Chronic inflammation may be a "disease of affluence"”B12 is largely misunderstood. B12 isn't produced by any animals, it's only produced by certain bacteria. It used to be available in plant based diets, but modern hygenic practices have more or less stopped that. In modern industrial farming it's common for the animals to not get enough B12 either, so they often get B12 from supplements as well. Fortunately it's incredibly cheap to synthesize supplements and you don'…
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on “IKEA Will Be Entirely Meat-Free This Christmas”Pivot to the whole food plant based diet. 0 There’s some free recipes on forks over knives that I’ve made that were pretty good to cook in less than 30 minutes. Easy to meal prep too. 0. https://www.forksoverknives.com/
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on “Implications of ultra-processed plant origin foods on cardiovascular risk”
