DVDs – North American Vegetarian Society

Meet Your Meat

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:42:07 +0000

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), narrated by Alec Baldwin. Powerful advocacy tool shows footage (much of it undercover) of abusive, standard practices within animal agribusiness. Documentary systematically chronicles what happens to each of the most exploited species within animal industries. DVD, 13 min.

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Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home

NAVS — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:42:07 +0000

A riveting story of human transformation and healing juxtaposed with rare footage demonstrating the emotional lives and intense family bonds of animals most often viewed as living commodities, this groundbreaking film shatters stereotypical notions of farmers, farm life, and perhaps most surprisingly, farm animals themselves. DVD (78 min.)

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Fasting: Safe & Effective Use of an Ancient Powerful Healing Theraphy

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Dr. Michael Klaper’s 55-minute presentation, Fasting, is lively and informative.

Dr. Michael Klaper, who is an authority on nutrition and health, explains the benefits and procedures of fasting and answers relevant questions. If you suffer from any of the following or have other chronic health problems, this is for you: High Blood Pressure, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cystitis, Type 2 Diabetes, Migraine Headaches, Crohn’s Disease, Colitis, Angina Pectoris.
For thousands of years, philosophers, scientists and physicians have used fasting as a healing process to reverse illness and disease. Today, and particularly in Western cultures, poor eating habits and high-fat, high-sugar foods are causing numerous chronic health problems. At the same time, many people are fasting and maintaining health-supporting diets to reverse deficiencies caused by non-nutritive food products and toxic lifestyles.

Understand the benefits and proper procedures for fasting. Understand who can benefit from fasting, who should not fast, how to prepare for a fast, what to expect during a fast, when and how to take a break from fasting, what to eat after fasting to maintain your health. DVD 55 minutes

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Forks Over Knives

NAVS — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:42:06 +0000

Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.
Dr. Campbell, a nutritional scientist at Cornell University, was concerned in the late 1960’s with producing “high quality” animal protein to bring to the poor and malnourished areas of the third world. While in the Philippines, he made a life-changing discovery: the country’s wealthier children, who were consuming relatively high amounts of animal-based foods, were much more likely to get liver cancer. Dr. Esselstyn, a top surgeon and head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, found that many of the diseases he routinely treated were virtually unknown in parts of the world where animal-based foods were rarely consumed.
These discoveries inspired Campbell and Esselstyn, who didn’t know each other yet, to conduct several groundbreaking studies. One of them took place in China and is still among the most comprehensive health-related investigations ever undertaken. Their research led them to a startling conclusion: degenerative diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even several forms of cancer, could almost always be prevented, and in many cases reversed, by adopting a whole-foods, plant-based diet. Despite the profound implications of their findings, their work has remained relatively unknown to the public.

The filmmakers travel with Drs. Campbell and Esselstyn on their separate but similar paths, from their childhood farms where they both produced “nature’s perfect food”; to China and Cleveland, where they explored ideas that challenged the established thinking and shook their own core beliefs.

The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Throughout the film, cameras follow “reality patients” who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole-food, plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.
The film features leading experts on health, examines the question “why we don’t know,” and tackles the issue of diet and disease in a way that will have people talking for years.

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Lighten Up

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:42:06 +0000

Weighing in on the Weight Debate with Jeff Novick, MS, RD, LD, LN. High Fat, Low Fat, High Protein, Zones, Blood Type. Learn in this entertaining talk which diet is really safe, effective and healthy. DVD (90 minutes)

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Digestion Made Easy

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:42:05 +0000

This illustrated lecture with Michael Klaper, MD. demonstrates how digestion and absorption work, how to keep digestion functioning optimally, and how to avoid and/or heal common diseases like acid reflux, constipation and diverticulosis; easy to understand, and shows you what foods to eat to keep your digestive system healthy for a lifetime. DVD (55 min.)

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Eating

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:42:05 +0000

Itâs the biggest cause of disease, disabilities & death today in the U.S. Learn how to unplug your eating habits & reverse the damage thatâs been done to your health. Narrated by Michael Anderson with Dr. Ruth Heidrich. DVD, 88 minutes.

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