Michael Hill
10/7/2015
Summary
The movie PlanEAT was about three different men who were searching for ways to make
our diets meatless. The average North American diet consisted of meat being the center
point of the meals. Our diets were broken down into three categories. The first being red
meat, chicken, fish and vegetable based. The second being chicken, fish and vegetable
based. The third being all vegetable based diet. The first diet was consumed by more the
80 percent of the American people, while the last diet was eaten by less than 10 percent.
The data showed that the first diet was responsible for more methane being released into
the atmosphere than any other resource on the planet. The three Doctors were talking about
the diet that they all changed to. They choose to stop eating meat and partake in only
vegetable based diets. In the movie they talked about how doctors, who specialize in
cardiovascular treatment and surgery, are almost none existent in Asian and African
countries. The diets that these countries have are not as meat and dairy based. Studies
found that our American diets are very protein and dairy based. More than the human body
actual needs on the daily basis. They did a study were they tested rats to see the growth of
cardiovascular issues based on diets. In the first diet rats heart problems went up by 20
percent over a given time. Once they took them off the diet it started to retract at a slow
rate. They tested them again on the same diet and again the rat’s blockage of the heart
