Planeat

A spoonful of sugar, we learned from Mary Poppins, helps the medicine go down. It’s a lesson that directors Shelley Lee Davies and Or Shlomi put to good use in this thought-provoking documentary. Using the testimony of experts ranging from Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a cardiac surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and medical advisor to President Bill Clinton, to Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a man who explored the link between diet and disease for more than 20 years, the directors build a solid case for viewers to change their diets and improve their health. Listening to experts lecture you on what’s wrong with your life, though, is not everybody’s idea of a good time at the movies, so Davies and Shlomi spice up their film with plenty of shots of cooks making delicious looking vegan and vegetarian meals to seduce viewers into seeing things – particularly diet and food – their way, And it works, too.