Honestly, Vanessa

What the Health wants you to believe it’s exposing hidden truths about nutrition.

It isn’t.

It’s pure vegan propaganda, wrapped in a documentary format.

The film starts with a conclusion and works backward to justify it. Meat is bad. Eggs are bad. Dairy is bad. Animal foods are positioned as the villain behind nearly every chronic disease imaginable. The science is cherry-picked, the tone is alarmist, and nuance doesn’t survive the edit.

Correlation becomes causation.
Complex biology becomes a scare tactic.
Fear becomes the teaching tool.

And then there’s the moment where the film compares eating meat to smoking a cigarette.

That’s not bold science, it’s absurd theater.

Cigarettes are a known toxin with no nutritional value. Meat is a biologically complete food humans evolved eating. Conflating the two isn’t provocative, it’s intellectually dishonest. It relies on shock, not physiology. Fear, not context.

When a documentary has to equate a steak with a cigarette to make its point, it’s no longer educating. It’s manipulating.

The film’s favorite trick is flattening everything into moral absolutes. A fast-food burger and a pasture-raised egg are treated as metabolically identical. Traditional diets that sustained humans for centuries are ignored, while epidemiological data is stretched beyond recognition.

What the film doesn’t address is just as telling. Ultra-processed food. Sugar. Industrial seed oils. Chronic stress. Sedentary lifestyles. Food quality. Preparation. Individual tolerance. Cultural context. All inconvenient to the narrative, so all conveniently omitted.

Instead, animal foods become the scapegoat for a modern metabolic crisis they didn’t create.

Then comes the guilt.

If you eat meat, you’re not just unhealthy, you’re complicit. If you drink milk, you’re behind the times. If you eat eggs, you’ve been lied to. The film doesn’t just want to change your diet. It wants to change your identity.

That’s the tell.

There’s nothing wrong with veganism as a personal or ethical choice. But What the Health isn’t offering choice. It’s offering fear dressed up as science and calling it truth.

If you walk away afraid of yogurt, eggs, or a piece of lamb, that wasn’t accidental. That was the goal.

My Rating for this docu: I’d give it a D. Slick, emotional, and intellectually dishonest.
Useful if you want to study vegan messaging. Useless if you want real nutritional understanding.