1 in 3 Americans have prediabetes. Most don’t know they have it.

According to CDC estimates, more than 37 million Americans are living with diabetes. Roughly 90–95% have Type 2 diabetes, a serious chronic condition that can lead to heart disease, chronic kidney disease, and vision loss. An additional 96 million are headed down the same path with prediabetes.
The good news is Type 2 diabetes can be prevented and reversed with basic lifestyle changes. In this webinar, best-selling author and physician Neal Barnard, MD, cuts through the confusion about diet and diabetes and presents proven, drug-free strategies for preventing and reversing this dangerous disease.

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Originally aired March 22, 2023

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The microbes in your gut are critical to healthy digestive function. And that’s just the beginning.

“I personally lost 50 pounds not by restricting my food but by adding more fiber-rich foods to my diet and eating them until I felt full,” says gastroenterologist Will Bulsiewicz, MD, MSCI. “I was shocked to find that the solution was abundance, not restriction—and that food quality was more important than food quantity. Why hadn’t I been taught this in medical school?”

In this eye-opening webinar, Dr. Bulsiewicz pulls back the veil on the science of weight loss and metabolism and explains why a fiber-fueled diet is the answer for long-lasting weight loss.

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Originally aired January 12, 2022

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Learn how changes to your everyday diet and lifestyle can help fight breast cancer.

Breast cancer is one of the most feared diseases in the world. But did you know that only 5 to 10 percent of all breast cancer comes from an inherited gene mutation? That’s right: Up to 90 percent of cancer results from the dietary and lifestyle choices we make every single day—not genetics. Kristi Funk, MD, noted breast cancer surgeon and women’s health warrior at pinklotus.com, dispels common misconceptions about breast cancer and presents evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle secrets to living your healthiest life. Come listen as complex concepts get distilled into simple, actionable, take-it-home-and-start-right-now power!

In this webinar, Dr. Funk discusses:

• The four boulders on the scales of health that tip you toward breast cancer or away from it.
• How every time you lift a fork to your mouth, you either fight or fuel breast cancer.
• The top 12 foods that breast cancer hates more than kids hate cabbage.

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Originally aired October 12, 2021

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Learn how the simplest change to what’s on your fork can profoundly impact your mental health.

In 2012, Adam Sud’s life was completely out of control. He was seriously overweight and struggling with multiple addictions and mental health disorders, type 2 diabetes, and other chronic diseases. His life nearly came to an end when he attempted suicide by drug overdose. He checked into rehab and with the help of his parents and a plant-based diet, he began a journey that led to a remarkable recovery. 

“The reason I found myself in that situation wasn’t because there was anything wrong with me,” Sud says. “It was because it was a very reasonable and predictable response to the way I was living my life. If I was willing to radically shift how I was living my life, I could actually take charge of my health. Essentially, if I’m the problem, I get to be the solution.”

Within one year, he had overcome his addictions, reversed all of his chronic diseases, gotten off all of his medications, and lost 180 pounds. While Adam’s story centers around recovering from addiction and disease, it’s also about stepping away from shame and into self-love. 

“I think back and realize that I was always viewing myself as an adversary to my body,” Sud says. “My whole life I’ve had weight problems; I’ve never been the fastest or the strongest, and I always believed that my body wasn’t good enough. I remember being in my sober living house talking to my house manager about the day I survived suicide, and I realized, What if that story I had in my head about my body has never been true? What if surviving suicide was the ultimate expression of my body never giving up on me? My body has been my ally my entire life, and I just forgot it because somebody or something got me to believe that I had to be something other than what I was in order to be acceptable, and I believed it. When I look at my body as my ally, every choice I make is an act of care-taking.” To hear Adam’s full presentation, watch the video above.

Adam is the founder of the Plant-Based for Positive Change, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the research on diet and mental health and addiction. In 2020 he ran the very first controlled research trial to investigate the effects of a plant-based diet intervention on early addiction recovery outcomes. 

In this webinar, Adam Sud discusses:

• How a plant-based diet helped him overcome addiction and depression.
• What is addiction really? What is the role of nutrition in the disease?
• Never-before-seen insights from his clinical research study on plant-based nutrition and addiction recovery outcomes, which will be published this summer.

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Originally aired August 11, 2021

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Have you found some weight-loss success, only to hit a frustrating plateau in your progress?

Losing weight is rarely easy, but it is very possible to shed excess pounds—and keep them off—once you understand not just what to eat, but also how to eat.

In this webinar, Dr. Anthony Lim, medical director of the McDougall Program and staff physician at TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California, shares his extensive knowledge and practical advice on how to create a healthier relationship with food and achieve lasting weight loss.

Dr. Lim discusses:

• The concept of calorie density and why it’s essential to long-term success.
• His 10-point checklist for maximum weight loss.
• Concrete strategies for making healthy behaviors easier and breaking through a weight-loss plateau.

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Originally aired on Jan. 15, 2020

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Natural Strategies for Hormone Balance

Did you know that a simple food prescription can help to gently restore your hormone balance? Myriad common health issues, including menstrual pain, weight gain, menopause symptoms, and hair loss are impacted by hormones that have gone haywire.

In this webinar, Dr. Neal Barnard, adjunct professor of medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine, shares his extensive knowledge and practical advice on how food and hormones play a powerful role in overall health. In this webinar, Dr. Barnard:

• Explains what happens when hormones go haywire and how foods can help to bring them back into balance.
• Provides insight into the hormones that are hiding in foods or are influenced by the foods we eat.
• Shares the science behind how common hormone-related conditions—such as weight gain, endometriosis, menstrual pain, and infertility—can be improved with very simple diet changes.

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Originally aired April 7, 2020

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Good health starts with a healthy gut.

Did you know that most of your immune system resides in your gut, along with 99.5 percent of your genetic code? It’s also home to trillions of microbes—aka your gut microbiome—that help keep your body running like a well-oiled machine. A healthy microbiome is the key to boosting metabolism, balancing hormones, and taming the inflammation that can lead to a host of diseases and conditions.

In this webinar video, Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, gastroenterologist and author of the new Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome, shares cutting-edge research and his extensive clinical knowledge on gut health and diet. In this presentation, you will learn:

• How your microbiome impacts blood sugar, cholesterol levels, immunity, mood, and more.
• Why elimination diets can be hazardous to your health.
• The signs and symptoms of a damaged microbiome, and how simple diet changes can help undo the damage in fairly short order.

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Originally aired on May 13, 2020

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How has public perception of plant-based eating changed over the past decade, and what’s next for the movement?

Luminaries from the original Forks Over Knives film reunite for a thought-provoking conversation with plant-based scholar Nina Gheihman, PhD, in celebration of 10 years of Forks Over Knives.

Watch T. Colin Campbell, PhD; Neal D. Barnard, MD; Caldwell Esselstyn, MD; Rip Esselstyn; and Forks Over Knives executive producer Brian Wendel discuss how the plant-based movement has grown in recent years, what they see on the horizon, how to navigate the changing landscape in the healthiest possible way, and more.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Nina Gheihman, Ph.D., is an author, speaker, and scholar on the plant-based foods industry. Based on her dissertation work at Harvard University, she is currently writing a book about the plant-based movement, to be published next year by Bloomsbury USA. Nina’s work has been featured in both academic and popular outlets including the journal Sociology Compass and media outlets Refinery29, The Telegraph, and The Atlantic.

Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD, has been a surgeon, researcher, and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic for more than 35 years and is the first recipient of the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine. He summarized his pioneering research in his best-selling book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, and has written for more than 150 scientific publications. He directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.

Rip Esselstyn spent a decade as one of the world’s premier triathletes. He then joined the Austin Fire Department, where he introduced his passion for a whole-food, plant-based diet to Austin’s Engine 2 Firehouse in order to rescue a firefighting brother’s health. To document his success he wrote the national bestseller, The Engine 2 Diet, which shows the irrefutable connection between a plant-based diet and good health.

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., has been dedicated to the science of human health for more than 60 years. His primary focus is on the association between diet and disease, particularly cancer. Although largely known for The China Study—which documents one of the most comprehensive studies of health and nutrition ever conducted, and recognized by The New York Times as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology”—his profound impact also includes extensive involvement in education, public policy, and laboratory research.

Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, is an adjunct professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. He has led numerous research studies investigating the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, and chronic pain, including a groundbreaking study of dietary interventions in type 2 diabetes, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that paved the way for viewing type 2 diabetes as a potentially reversible condition. He has authored more than 20 books and is the editor in chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians.

Brian Wendel is founder and president of Forks Over Knives, a global multimedia brand that empowers people to live healthier lives by changing the way the world understands nutrition. He created and executive produced the 2011 documentary film Forks Over Knives, which has been viewed by millions of people around the world and has become one of the most influential documentaries of our time.

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Originally aired on May 12, 2021

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A puzzling chronic disorder that affects more women than men, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can be relatively mild, or it can seriously interfere with your daily life. Symptoms often include abdominal pain, gas, bloating, diarrhea, and constipation.

In this webinar, integrative gastroenterologist Angie Sadeghi, MD, shares the latest on what doctors know about IBS and gut health, and how plant-based nutrition and other lifestyle strategies can help. Dr. Sadeghi discusses:

• Is it IBS or something else? Understand the symptoms.
• How food allergies, food sensitivities, and IBS are linked—plus a doctor’s take on the low-FODMAP diet.
• How integrative medicine can treat IBS by blending evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle strategies with cutting-edge medical approaches.

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Originally aired Oct. 14, 2020

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