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Even today, as trendy diets and a weight-loss frenzy sweep the nation, two-thirds of adults are still obese and children are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, typically an “adult” disease, at an alarming rate. If we’re obsessed with being thin more so than ever before, why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago?

In The China Study, Dr. T. Colin Campbell details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. The report also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and opportunistic scientists. The New York Times has recognized the study as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” and the “most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease.”

The China Study is not a diet book. Dr. Campbell cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and those concerned with the effects of aging.

[This book is also available in Spanish, El Estudio de China.]
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“[These] findings from the most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease are challenging much of American dietary dogma.”
—The New York Times

“Reflects the profound changes that industrialization is bringing to diet and disease patterns in China, statistics that have had an impact on reevaluating dietary policy in the United States and worldwide.”
—Washington Post

“Everyone in the field of nutrition science stands on the shoulders of Dr. Campbell, who is one of the giants in the field. This is one of the most important books about nutrition ever written—reading it may save your life.”
—Dean Ornish, MD, Founder & President, Preventative Medicine Research Institute; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Author, Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease and Love & Survival

“Colin Campbell’s The China Study is an important book, and a highly readable one. With his son, Tom, Colin studies the relationship between diet and disease, and his conclusions are startling. The China Study is a story that needs to be heard.”
—Robert C. Richardson, PhD, Nobel Prize Winner; Professor of Physics and Vice Provost of Research, Cornell University

“The China Study gives critical, life-saving nutritional information … Dr. Campbell’s exposé of the research and medical establishment makes this book a fascinating read and one that could change the future for all of us.”
—Joel Fuhrman, MD, Author, Eat to Live

“The China Study is a life changer . . . After reading it I felt compelled to recommend this book to as many people as possible.”
—Bob Napoli, Senior Vice President, Operations, Hudson Group

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T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., is the project director of the China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project (the China Study), a 20-year study of nutrition and health. He is a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University. In more than 40 years of research he has received more than 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers. He lives in Ithaca, New York. Thomas M. Campbell II lives in Ithaca, New York.


For more than 40 years, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Study, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. He has received more than 70 grant years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers. The China Study was the culmination of a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.

A 1999 graduate of Cornell University and recipient of a medical degree in 2010, Thomas M. Campbell II, MD, is a writer, actor and five-time marathon runner.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BenBella Books; 1st edition (December 11, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 417 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932100385
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932100389
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.53 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9 inches
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    For more than 40 years, Dr. T. Colin Campbell has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Project, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. He has more than 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers and coauthor of the bestselling the book, "The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health."

    "The China Study" gave us a simple but powerful answer: Eat a diet based on whole, plant-based food, and dramatically reduce your risk of a broad spectrum of diseases, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer.

    In his new book, "Whole," Dr. Campbell picks up where "The China Study" left off. "The China Study" revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer. "Whole" answers the question of why. Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? "Whole" demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten offtrack and reveals the elegant wonders of the true holistic workings of nutrition, from the cellular level to the operation of the entire organism. "Whole" is a marvelous journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, led by one of the masters of the science.

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    Dr. Campbell is a board-certified family physician and a certified in obesity medicine by the

    American Board of Obesity Medicine. He has worked with many hundreds of individuals as well as groups to prevent and treat chronic conditions via changes in diet and lifestyle.

    He is founder and co-director of the UR Medicine/Highland Hospital Nutrition in Medicine Research Center, where he studies the effect of plant-based nutrition on various chronic diseases. He is co-author of "The China Study," a worldwide bestseller, with his father T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and author of “The China Study Solution.” He has presented widely on the topic of nutrition for optimal health.

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-There is a mountain of scientific evidence to show that the healthiest diet you can possibly consume is a high carbohydrate diet.-The past 60 years have been a celebration of chemicals and technology instead of diet and prevention. So we don’t die from heart disease as often, but we still get it at about the same rates. Those who have bypass surgery do not have fewer heart attacks than those who do not.-Calcium builds strong bones, but cow’s milk weakens them, as osteoporosis. Americans, Australians and New Zealanders drink the most milk, and have the most bone fractures from middle age on.-One of the biggest health hoaxes in history is the nutrient supplement industry.-The health damage from doctors’ ignorance of nutrition is astounding.Welcome back to The China Study, still straight-shooting, still dramatic, and about 70 pages longer in the new edition. This book provides more training in the health effects of food than MDs get in all their years of education. The clinical studies, the case histories and the science are all here in plain, direct language. It is a very hard book to put down. The facts, usually contrary to everything we’ve been taught, keep coming fast and hard.The reason the facts are contrary is of course because of the usual suspects: Big Ag, Big Pharma and Big Processors. They have corrupted our universities with grants, infiltrated government agencies to keep the truth at bay, and spend billions advertising their false promises. We grow up with their falsehoods, and we believe in them. Those who try to speak out are isolated, shunned, removed and fired. It is all examined in you-are-there detail, because it all happened to Colin Campbell and other (once) highly-regarded doctors he profiles.Campbell’s basic premise is that animal protein destroys our internal ecosystem. A Whole Food, Plant-Based diet not only maintains better health, it can even reverse damage. The scientific proof is endless – and so are the defenders of the SAD – Standard American Diet - that is about one third animal, between meat and dairy.When I read the first China Study ten years ago, I immediately went back online and ordered a whole case of them. I then mailed them out to friends all over, preceded by an e-mail warning and my review. That’s how impressed I was. This second edition forced me to reread it. In so doing, I came across several strong new claims and rushed to the first edition, only to find they were already there. So this edition is as much a badly needed refresher as a new discovery. Glad they made me do it.David Wineberg
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Nicolle
5.0 out of 5 stars Game changer book for me
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I'm posting this two years after reading The China Study and what subsequently followed was radically changing into beimg nearly 95% of the time vegan all the time. This book was a game changer for me. If you find the book hard to follow or understand, buy the audio version because I think you will find it's easier to understand and follow. As a engineer and scientist, I followed up and read some of Campbell's journal papers. I was stunned by the findings enough to have a paradigm shift in what I would choose to eat forever more. Like a smoker that quits a bad habit overnight, I did the same with what I ate. No more fast food, added sugar, junk, cows milk, etc. I dumped the western diet and my 50yr habit of what I ate since birth to simply eating...plants. Whole, organic plants is my food of choice. Over a period of 6 months I lost about 52 pounds, my weight dropped from 224 to 172, being 5ft 8in male, this was noticeable to all I new. Seeing is believing. My blood screening numbers are all normal except for B12 and Vit D were found to be low; so I take supplements for only those two things and feel fantastic. Im going on to my 3rd yr now after reading this book and changing to whole plants I feel like I did when I was in grade school with energy and skip in my step. Im writing this with the hope that it gives someone inspiration that they (you) too can do it too. Never being a gym person, I've recently begun to add modest exercise 1 or 2x per week in the past 6 months which makes me feel additionally very good after a 45 min workout. But absolutely, the biggest bang for my my health and feeing good comes most definitely in what I choose to eat. Don't get me wrong, I love chicken wings, cheeseburgers, fries, cookies, cake and pie, but they don't love me. I'd say 90% of what's in a supermarket and 95% of most restaurant menus in the US wont meet a true whole foods, plant based diet. If I were to give advice as to where to start, I would suggest after reading the China Study two things: theres a retired Dr. Esselstyn from the Cleveland Clinic that had a simple breakfast cereal he made at home. My version of it goes like this: 1-1.5 cups of raw oatmeal, sliced fresh strawberries, blueberries, figs, dates, rasins, prunes, add fresh blackberries and/or raspberries or whatever fruit you want. Add ground flax seed and chia seed. Add a sliced banana or two. Add unsweetened and unflavored almond milk. Stir the almond milk so it gets mixed in the raw oats. Wait 5 min then eat. Its very filling. I use all organic produce and oats now to avoid pesticides. The other thing I do is make 2-liters of green smoothies and drink it all throughout my day. I change up the frozen fruit in the smoothie (I'll use frozen mangos, pineapple, strawberries...for leafy green I may use a combo of baby spinach, kale, chard); here is an example of a smoothie I made today: 3 cups baby spinach, 1.5 cups of frozen berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries), 2 apples, 2 pears, ground flax seed and chia seeds, 2 bananas, 2fl-oz of almond milk+2fl-oz of spring water. Blend. Makes 2 liters. Strongly recommend using a blender like a breville "the boss" (i use this and like it alot, sticker shock on price so get ready) or blendtec. After making the smoothie, take two to three large containers of the smoothie with u to work and drink this all through the day. Carry one of these containers with you around the office or in meetings like its you're new coffee mug. Lol. I dumped milk and dairy, and check the labels...I absoultely won't eat anything with added sugar. For dinner, I started out using the "big salad" recipe that can be found at chrisbeatcancer.com In two weeks of consisitent eating whole plant based diet, I began to notice the change and feel better overall; the positive change in two weeks kept me going, week after week, month after month. Dont let people put doubts in your mind. If I can do it, you can do it too if you want it. I hope my note is helpful.
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On the morning of July 25, 2011, our travel group boarded a bus from Prague to Krakow--an eight-hour ride that enabled me to bring out my Kindle, which always accompanies me on my travels. To my astonishment, my book list included The China Study by Colin Campbell, PhD, which I assumed and later confirmed came as an unexpected gift from my computer maven son, Don jr. And what a gift it proved to be!!!

As I read this book on diet I realized, having just turned 80, how lucky I was to be alive and in reasonably good health! Dr. Campbell, with completely convincing data gleaned by him, his researchers, and other distinguished investigators over decades, discloses how the American diet has done much to destroy our health.

As the battle for expanded health care rages (to repeal present legislation or not to repeal), this author has inadvertently offered a potential way to keep us from spending over 30 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on health care in 20 years (as opposed to over 15 percent now)--by simply changing how we eat. Of course, as he notes in this seminal book, we citizens will have to fight the political power that the animal product food producers and the drug companies use to issue misleading information on what constitutes good dietary practice.

The myths he attacks have accompanied me all through my life. What are they? In a nutshell, since my earliest days my parents stressed the importance of protein obtained mainly from animal sources--meat, eggs, and milk--as the key to strong bones and longevity. It turns out that the corporate entities that sell these products have strong motivation not to reveal, as Campbell eloquently does, the dangers of our levels of ingestion. More shockingly, he counsels us to become vegetarians!

I believe you will find Campbell's experience in trying to forward his diet ideas to colleagues and the public in general most informative. It's no surprise that so-called scientific research has often been used to protect corporate or ideological interest to the detriment of the public good. He cites the tobacco industry's divisive studies to delay the release of information about the dangers of smoking; the producers of animal products have hired well-known scientists to do the same research--delaying, denying, and denigrating the impeccable science put forward by many real scientists over the decades.

Be sure to read about his treatment by his superiors at the NAS, where Campbell worked on the first such report on nutrition and cancer, which was released in 1982. It engendered huge interest and acclaim, "establishing high-profile goals for the dietary prevention of cancer," including cutting fat intake, and encouraging increased consumption of fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain cereal products.

This report drew quick response from the Council on Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), an influential lobbying group for the livestock-based farming industry, which produced a report summarizing the views of 56 experts who were concerned about the effect this landmark NAS report would have on the agriculture and food industries. Other Campbell foes weighed in, and a challenging report was quickly sent to all 535 members of Congress by the American Meat Institute (AMI), National Broiler Council (NBC), National Cattlemen's Association (NCA), National Livestock and Meat Board, National Meat Association, National Milk Producers Federation, National Pork Producers Council, National Turkey Federation, and National Egg Producers. All, of course, were only concerned about the public's health!

Campbell's enemies founded a new organization called the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), headquartered in New York City. The organization still bills itself today as "a consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment and health." It also claims to be an "independent non-profit tax-exempt organization," but it receives 70 percent of its funding from corporate donors, according to the National Environment Trust (NET), which cites the Congressional Quarterly's Public Interest Profiles.

The NET reports that the ACSH has claimed in their publications that cholesterol is not related to coronary disease! And further, they claim that "the unpopularity of food irradiation...is not based on science," and that "endocrine disrupters" (e.g., PCBs, dioxin, etc.) are not a human health problem, saccharine is not carcinogenic, and fossil-fuel restrictions to control global warming should not be implemented.

Campbell says that searching for a serious critique of the food industry is like searching for a needle in a haystack. "Although I believe that some of the ACSH's arguments may have merit, I seriously question their claim to be an objective broker of consumer education."

In the 1980s Campbell headed a new entity, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) in Falls Church, Virginia. Among those who sought to discredit AICR was the pharmaceutical industry, which saw the diet approach as a huge threat. The American Cancer Society (ACS) was a particular detractor, not accepting until the 1990s the fact that diet and cancer are related. ACS was, of course, vested in the use of drugs, radiation and surgery. The president of ACS put out a memo saying that AICR was made up of quacks and felons.

There are some people in very influential government and community positions who operate under the guise of being scientific experts, but whose real jobs are to stifle open and honest scientific debate. Perhaps they receive significant personal compensation for attending to the interests of powerful food and drug companies, or perhaps they merely have a corporate-friendly viewpoint. Personal bias is stronger than you might think.

I know scientists who have lost family members to cancer; it angers them to entertain the possibility that personal choices, like diet, could have played a role in the death of their loved ones. Likewise, there are scientists for whom the high-fat, animal-based diet they eat every day is simply what they learned was healthy at a young age--they love the habit and they don't want to change.
Despite the fact that most scientists are honorable, the few who sell out to the highest bidder can have vast influence, creating vast confusion among the public.

The data Campbell cites comes from countless prestigious sources--whose finding have been systematically dismissed by some of our highest authorities, including some associated with the National Academy of Sciences.

Don't believe me? Just read the book. If you then can face a slab of raw cow meat or cover your cereal with cream, or even regular milk, you are willing to ignore real dangers that include increased chance of cancer, heart attack, Alzheimer's, and virtually every other disease our flesh is heir to.

Furthermore, Campbell persuasively argues that adopting a plant-based diet will help retard these diseases, and even reverse their course. More important, however, are the sobering implications of his arguments. When Norman Borlaug invented "Miracle Rice," he opined that he had given the world just one generation to get a handle on its population growth, since the production of beef and other animal products requires so much more energy and resources than production of plant-based products.

Now, with population growth expected to hit 10 or 12 billion by 2100, it would seem that plant-based resource consumption would ease starvation and ill health. However, it would be foolish indeed to pretend that, if the rich nations cut their consumption of animal-based products, this 10 or 12 billion population could easily sustain itself.

In fact, if our entire 320 million (by 2100, nearly one billion) population changed its habits, the effect of longevity and better health would still put resources under terrific strain. At a US population of one billion, we are still only 10% of the total world population; world grain resources are under huge pressure now to feed only seven billion.

As an active octogenarian, I plan to abide by Campbell's findings, seeking (as we all are) to find the elusive fountain of youth sought by Ponce de Leon and so many others over the ages. Longevity is only of value when accompanied by good or reasonable health!

So what are the chances of wide adoption? Well, the fate of two pioneering MDs who quiet unsuccessfully tried to introduce these diet ideas into the Cleveland Clinic Hospital is not encouraging. However, the growing number of cases not permanently helped by many present medical treatments suggest that change could come.

Certainly Campbell's book helps, as we watch our government stumble on every matter, greased by filthy lucre at every step. Perhaps we can knock those doctors off their haughty perches.

I am now an almost vegetarian!
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JMFDT
5.0 out of 5 stars Great study ! Great informations
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Giorgio
5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensabile per sopravvivere: la relazione tra dieta e salute
Reviewed in Italy on December 13, 2017
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Dopo aver anche solo iniziato a leggere questo libro difficilmente continuerete ad alimentarvi di cibo di provenienza animale.
Scoprirete perché malattie di ogni genere si presentano solo quando si comincia a fare uso di cibo di derivazione animale. I risultati di decenni di ricerche in tutto il mondo sono incontrovertibili, ma pochi sono nelle condizioni di parlare senza subire minacce e ricatti. Campbell e figlio svelano la relazione tra l'alimentazione e lo stato di salute, e non è quello che tutti pensano.
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Cariad O'Brien
5.0 out of 5 stars This should be necessary reading for everyone.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2018
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I never write reviews, but I simply had to talk about this book.
Where do I begin? Not only has this book helped me with my uni work, it has also helped further my knowledge on the subject. It’s informative but not in your face. It talks about some of the oldest and well known research into health in a new way with promising results. I don’t think medical research was necessarily bias back when we were being told that milk helps build strong bones - I simply think that research was focus on one or a chain of reactions within the body rather than considering all of the evidence. Research focused on Calcium building strong bones, when in fact, the body cannot absorb calcium as milk is acidic and calcium is leached from the bones to recitify this. As a result, the most bone fractures are associated with standard westernised diets that consume the most dairy. It’s scary how some of the causations for diseases are overlooked. But I get it. Pharmaceuticals have vested insterests in treating people who are sick (and, arguably keeping people sick), so if there was a rigorous system in place to prevent disease, the pharmaceutical industry would have to change their game plan. I’m vegan, and have been for 3 years now. I am not hard on myself for slipping up, but I am actively aware of the implications consuming animal foods has on human health. I discovered veganism through the GAPS diet (don’t worry, I didn’t try the diet out), which basically entails having to cut all food groups out and reintroduce them to deal with any “intolerances”. That’s the GAPS diet in a nutshell. It recommends consuming broth and bone marrow broth for the first two weeks before slowly introducing other food groups. This is an extremely restrictive diet that is not accessible to many people at all. But that doesn’t stop medical professionals implicating it in their research - a lesser form of the GAPS diet is introducing dairy slowly to people with an intolerance in order to rid them of it. I think this is reckless and damaging behaviour and something I would not recommend anyone to do, even under the supervision of a medical professional. But don’t just take my word for it - read the book. Read the literature supporting a wholefoods, plant based diet and make your own mind up. It’s not as inaccessible as people think, but it is worth noting that in order to obtain a wholefoods diet, you must be able to cook for yourself using fresh ingredients - this book doesn’t really touch on this, but I think it is definitely something that needs to be discussed. The only downfall of a wholefoods, plant-based diet is that it excludes a lot of groups of people from this lifestyle. However, if veganism continues on the rise that it is currently on, wholefoods will become more accessible as the demand for healthier, plant-based alternatives increases. Even if you’re just concerned about your health, I wholeheartedly reccomend that you try a vegan diet, whether wholefoods or not (there are plenty of meat and dairy substitutes out there now) and see what you think. It’s a learning curve, and a really fun one at that. Trying new foods and learning how to cook with them is fun and can be so cheap. Say goodbye to ill-health and hello to feeling revitalised. This book is written in simple terms and helps breakdown the misconception of health in simple terms. Although I’ve referred to is as a “diet” and the book refers to it as such, it’s more of a lifestyle and one that has handsome benefits for not only physical health but also mental health and well-being and it opens up so many avenues for people wanting to become more lean, or build more muscle or people who want to experiment with food or just become more aware of their lifestyles impact on diet. Going vegan isn’t only about individual health, it helps the environment and animals. Following on from this, I highly recommend watching the following documentaries: What The Health, Folks over Knives, Cowspiracy, and Earthlings. This is more than just a book, this is a chance to help prevent some of the most scary diseases of our time.
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Marina
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye opening!
Reviewed in Mexico on March 16, 2017
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Honestly this should be taught in primary school, we've all been lied to :(
A little redundant at times, but definitely something everyone should read at least once
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Angela Bruno
5.0 out of 5 stars Should be mandatory for all 1st yr med/nurse students
Reviewed in Australia on March 13, 2018
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As someone who has reached mid life with an ever growing list of allergies, extreme fatigue, inflammatory and life threatening conditions that no establishment doctor seems to be able to help me with, I am sold. I began taking the lessons from this book when I first started reading it nearly 2 months ago and am amazed at the turn around. I personally think that doctors who don't recommend this as a first step, should be held liable. The scientific facts are indisputable. If you aren't getting answers or are worried you're not feeling great despite an endless list of expensive drugs then I highly recommend this book. I guarantee it will change your outlook and life in some way.
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