Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health

i was hoping for a technical manual but it's really more like a long magazine article. if you have seen the documentary, you don't really need to see the book, unless you are interested in the recipes, which i am, so i'm only a little disappointed.
having said the above, i will say this; like any other book/movie/program about health and what we eat, there is something of a belief system involved. the fact is that very few “foods” are going to kill you on the spot and the evidence for the danger of our american diet that seems most compelling (meta analysis of other cultures) are too confounded by other cultural factors to be considered causal. couple that with the knowledge that a significant minority of people react badly to certain statistically healthy diets and you are left in the same boat in which you began. soooo....there is a certain amount of this that i think is very likely true and there is some of it that is probably pushing truth a bit. but, as it not harmful in any way and it fits nicely with my other beliefs re: not eating animals and humanity's evolutionarily derived talent for digesting whole foods efficiently, i'm into it.