Here’s the story of how one man’s mission became a movement.
In 2001, Brian Wendel founder and president of Fork Over Knives and creator and executive producer of the Forks Over Knives documentary feature film, attended a conference on nutrition. There, a plant-based expert made a compelling enough argument that a Staten Island boy raised on pizza and roast beef decided to go all in on plant foods. He had no idea it would forever alter the course of his life. 
Over the next eight years, Brian immersed himself in the lifestyle, learning about the disease-reversing power of a plant-based diet. The evidence was strong, yet the overwhelming majority of the population had no idea that this simple change could have such a drastic impact. Brian wanted to reach as many people as possible with this information, so in 2009, he began work on a documentary film.
The film debuts in 2011. The movement begins.
Forks Over Knives became a spark for national change. The film was a hit. The accompanying book became a New York Times No. 1 bestseller. And most importantly, Brian saw legions of people – including his own father and members of the film’s cast and crew – adopting a plant-based diet and regaining control of their health and their lives. It was obvious that Forks Over Knives was no longer just a side project, so Brian quit his day job in real estate and took on the movement full time.
Since 2011, Forks Over Knives has released four additional books, launched a mobile recipe app and maintains a website filled with the latest research, recipes, and tools to help people at every phase of their plant-based journeys. The team has grown and launched a cooking course, a meal planner, a line of food products, and a magazine. We are committed to changing the way the world sees and approaches nutrition.
Under Brian’s leadership, Forks Over Knives has evolved into a leading global multimedia brand in food and health, with best-selling books, top-rated mobile apps, a meal planning service, an online cooking school, and a website that is one of the most popular health and wellness destinations on the web.
Film Synopsis
Released in 2011, Forks Over Knives makes the radical but convincing case that modern diseases can be prevented, halted, and often reversed by leaving animal-based and highly refined foods off the plate … and adopting a whole-food, plant-based diet instead. The film, which received rave reviews from medical experts and entertainment critics alike, has been viewed by millions of people around the world and has become one of the most influential documentaries of our time. Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the chronic diseases that afflict us can be controlled or even reversed by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. 
The major storyline traces the personal journeys of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional biochemist from Cornell University, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a former top surgeon at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic. On separate paths, their discoveries and groundbreaking research led them to the same startling conclusion: Chronic diseases including heart disease and type 2 diabetes can almost always be prevented – and in many cases reversed – by adopting a whole-food, plant-based diet.
The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. The film follows everyday Americans with chronic conditions as they seek to reduce their dependence on medications and learn to use a whole-food, plant-based diet to regain control over their health and their lives.
The critically acclaimed Forks Over Knives film has been making waves since its release in 2011. Find and stream this groundbreaking plant-based documentary on Amazon Prime or iTunes.
Make sense to you? Join the plant-based journey. Click here to know more https://www.forksoverknives.com/tools/
Master the art of plant-based cooking: http://www.forksoverknives.com/cooking-course
