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The China Study
by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. with Thomas M. Campbell II

Paperback; 417 pages; $16.95; Benbella Books, Dallas, Texas
Available from Living Nutrition
Review by Bradley Saul

Have you ever wondered about the connection between health and diet? Odds are that if you're even reading this article, you have some inkling that the two are connected. But where do you turn for good, scientifically credible research on the optimum diet for a healthy, disease-free life? T. Colin Campbell's new book, The China Study, may be the best place to start. Billed as the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted, the book presents staggering, incontrovertible statistical evidence that meat and dairy are the primary causes of the diseases of civilization.

A faculty member at Cornell's College of Human Ecology, Campbell has spent most of his life researching the links between diet and health, but he did not start out with the hypothesis that plant-based diets are key factors in health. Early in Campbell's career, while researching ways in get malnourished Filipino youth to consume more high quality protein, he discovered a possible link between liver cancer and protein consumption. Driven to find answers, Campbell conducted studies that showed a causal connection between increased dietary animal protein and the development of cancer in rats dosed with aflatoxin (a toxin often found in peanuts that initiates liver cancer). In the early 1980s, Campbell helped research and write Diet, Nutrition and Cancer, a publication of the National Academy of Sciences that examined the possible links between diet and cancer. Eventually, Campbell headed what became known as NH China Study, a multiyear epidemiological study of lifestyle factors and disease rates of over 6500 people in rural China. This study analyzed over 350 lifestyle, diet and disease variables.

In his book, Campbell describes in no uncertain terms the implications of The China Study: if you eat animal products, you face increased risks of cancer and heart disease. In addition, Campbell explores other scientists' research of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer's. Their findings also show that as consumption of animal protein increases, so do the rates of degenerative disease.

Amidst the glut of misinformation in nutrition guidebooks, Campbell's Good Nutrition Guide section is like a delicious well-ripened banana. Based on eight simple principles that anyone can follow, the overriding theme of the guide is the interconnectedness of life. As Campbell reminds us, NOR bodies have evolved with this infinitely complex network of reactions in order to derive maximal benefit from whole foods, as they appear in nature. The main conclusion can be summed up in one sentence: for optimal health, eat a whole foods, plant-based diet, while minimizing the consumption of refined foods, added salt and added fats. This sounds like such simple, common sense advice that we're all probably wondering why we weren't told this when we were growing up.

In the final section, Why haven't you heard this before? Campbell presents some of his most intriguing information. After years of working with the public health system, he has this to say: The entire system government, science, medicine, industry and media promotes profits over health, technology over food and confusion over clarity. Most, but not all, of the confusion about nutrition is created in legal, fully disclosed ways and is disseminated by unsuspecting, well-intentioned people. Through personal stories and rational analysis, Campbell exposes the core of the problems with a public health system that puts profits before science and integrity.

While I needed no convincing that a plant-based diet is truly optimal for my personal health, I am convinced that The China Study could positively affect public health policy and the lives of many Americans who desperately need to improve their nutritional intake. This book is a must-have for every health-seeker's library.

The China Study is the most important health and nutrition book in 75 years. Everyone should read it and it should be the teaching model for every college nutrition course and government program worldwide as well as the American Dietetic Association.

- David Klein, Publisher of Living Nutrition Magazine

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