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	The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for ... T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II Benbella Books, 2006 - 417 pages average customer review:based on 412 reviews view larger image
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Referred to as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in more than 2,500 counties across China and Taiwan, and conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as curbing obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that are widely popular in the West. The politics of nutrition and the impact of special interest groups in the creation and dissemination of public information are also discussed.

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WHAT'S THE CHINA STUDY?

This book discusses the China Study, which examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition using surveys from 6,500 adults in China and Taiwan. This investigation shows a strong link between good nutrition and avoiding or reversing obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. The author concludes that a plant-based vegan diet is the best strategy for health and longevity. The author is a strong critic of the western diet, the Atkins diet, and diets that emphasize animal products. The book also criticizes the way nutritional information is obtained, disseminated, and put into practice in the west.

The author makes the point that nutrition research and studies often isolate certain nutrients or food groups in order to determine their effects. He is, however, presenting the effects of nutrition on health when there are many other factors that affect health and lifestyle including hygiene, air and water pollution, exposure to environmental toxins and chemicals, exercise, genetics, etc. The author has strong and convincing beliefs about nutrition and its benefits to our health and uses the China Study research to support his theories. He is clearly sincere about wanting to help people improve their quality of life and provides concrete suggestions to help the reader change poor eating habits into good ones. His ideas include that heart disease can be reversed by diet, breast cancer is affected by hormones in the blood which are determined by what we eat, dairy products increase prostate cancer risk, antioxidants in fruits and vegetables positively affect mental function in old age, Type 1 diabetes is linked to infant feeding practices, and casein protein from cow's milk is cancer-promoting while proteins from plants including wheat and soy are not.

The contents of this tome include:
Introduction
Part I: The China Study
1. Problems We Face, Solutions We Need
2. A House of Proteins
3. Tuning Off Cancer
4. Lessons from China
Part II: Diseases of Affluence
5. Broken Hearts
6. Obesity
7. Diabetes
8. Common Cancers: Breast, Prostate, Large Bowel (Colon, Rectal)
9. Autoimmune Diseases
10. Wide-Ranging Effects: Bone, Kidney, Eye and Brain Diseases
Part III: The Good Nutrition Guide
11. Eating Right: Eight Principles of Food and Health
12. How to Eat
Part IV: Why Haven't You Heard This Before?
13. Science--The Dark Side
14. Scientific Reductionism
15. The "Science" of Industry
16. Government: Is It for the People?
17. Big Medicine: Whose Health Are They Protecting?
18. Repeating Histories
Appendix A. Q&A: Protein Effect in Experimental Rat Studies
Appendix B. Experimental Design of the China Study
Appendix C. The "Vitamin" D Connection
References
Index

The China Study is an impressively large survey of health and nutrition habits that the author concludes supports a vegan diet. The Chinese diet is lower in meat and dairy than the Western diet, though it is not vegetarian. The book, however, is an impressive work by a researcher who passionately believes in a vegetarian diet and wants to help people live healthfully. Most people would find it interesting and useful. I certainly agree with his suggestions to eat plenty of fruit, vegetables, and nuts, and to limit animal products! I also recommend THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams

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An imperative read for any clinician or or anyone wanted to sort thru the garbage fo nutrition information, here is the eral science from THE investigator of key nutrition science in America

Compelling!

This book was suggested to me as a way I might start thinking of re-evaluating my diet. I was convicted by the research and conclusions and have DEFINITELY re adjusted my diet to minimize the food groups mentioned.
I have passed the book on to 2 people and they too are very interested in its conclusions!
I highly recommend it!

Very useful support for a change in eating habits

This book summarizes the incredible large-scale study of diet and health that draws some potentially uncomfortable conclusions about the typical American diet. As a motivation to seriously consider making the switch to a vegan diet, the book is powerful. I only gave it four stars because I felt it could have presented more of the study's data and details and spent less time recounting the efforts of the food and drug industry to promote different ideas. The events covered in the fourth section began to come across as a bit of a paranoid rant (though I don't doubt at all that it is true).

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