The Food Cure: Hope or Hype?

The Food Cure: Hope or Hype?

The Food Cure: Hope or Hype?

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The Food Cure: Hope or Hype?

2018

1h 45m

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THE FOOD CURE presents an intimate portrait of six cancer patients who make the radical decision to turn their backs on conventional medicine and put their faith in a controversial alternative cancer treatment based on food.

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