The China Study. There's not the word "diet" in the title, but make no mistake, this book is all about the way we eat.
T. Colin Campbell is a well-respected doctor from Cornell with years of clinical study and research on his long, long résumé. He's a profoundly educated voice on nutrition and diet. So what's he saying?
Eat a plant-based, wholefoods diet and change your life!
This isn't a pitch for some weight-loss program complete with nutrition supplements and TV dinners designed to line his pockets. Nope, he and his mounds of research suggest that we eat the simplest foods of all: whole plant foods.
Campbell and his research team have been able to turn on and off cancer in rats by changing the amount of animal protein in the rats' diet. Not kidding. He also offers up tons of examples of how a wholefoods, plant-based diet can help and in some ways reverse the ravages of diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other problems that affect many people on the Western Diet (what I've referred to before as the Standard American Diet, SAD). It's documented.
So, why aren't doctors spouting off this information at yearly check-ups? Campbell argues that doctors like him who have proposed preventing and treating "diseases of affluence" like cancer, heart disease and other chronic illness with diet have been constantly put down for going against the grain in the medical society. The medical industry is in bed with the drug industry and if you eat better and don't get chronic illness, well, they lose money.
Despite their underlying yearn to help people, most doctors would like to treat first with a pill or a surgery and make their money off of you, rather than getting nothing from fruit and vegetable growers nor you as the patient, says Campbell. And he makes a good argument!
Buy it and read if for yourself. His research doesn't lie — it's just one more reason to go unrefined.
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