Who Helped Who In World War Two?

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We live in a world where heart disease is the number one killer in America (Office of Information Services). Every year more then 600,000 people die of heart disease, “that’s one in every four deaths” (Centers For Disease Control). How do we stop such a horrible disease? What could possibly be done to lower the rates of heart disease? The movie Forks Over Knives looks at this very question and has found that the best way to fight heart disease is with an all plant-based diet. While this movie does bring great points as to why a plant based diet helps to stop heart disease, some of the claims are overly generalized and do not take into account the many different factors that effect their research. For example one of the arguments is that in Norway during WWII, Germany stole all of their cattle, because of this the people were forced to consume a mostly plant based diet. This is what lead to rates of heart disease lowering in Norway. This is a weak argument because it does not take into consideration other factors of heart disease and because it is irrelevant to the main argument of the movie. Forks over knives made heart disease seem like the real enemy of World War Two. Before the war, heart disease rates were peaking at around 30 thousand deaths a year in Norway (Fulkerson, and Corry). Then Germany invaded in 1942. The Germans stole all of their cattle for their own needs. The people of Norway were forced to lower their consumption of meat. After slowing down the consumption of red meat the reports of heart disease lowered over for the rest of their German occupation, proving that less meat is better. There are several factors that cause heart disease such as: smoking, certain fats, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, hi... ... middle of paper ... ...epartment of Health and Human Services. "What Causes Heart Disease?" NIH Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. National Institutes of Health, 26 Sept. 2011. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. Forks Over Knives. Dir. Lee Fulkerson. Prod. John Corry. Perf. Collin Campbell and Caldwell B. Esselstyn. 2011. 2011. Film. Henderson, Rob, et al. "Changes in Scottish suicide rates during the Second World War." National Center for Biotechnology Information. N.p., 23 June 2006. Web. 8 Apr. 2014. Office of Information Services. "FASTSTATS - Leading Causes of Death." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 Dec. 2013. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. "Red meat and colon cancer." Harvard Health Publications. Harvard, Mar. 2008. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. "Smoking and Heart Disease and Stroke." Tips From Former Smokers. Center for Disease Control, 13 Jan. 2014. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.

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