Books : The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
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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Rating: - Veganism for optimal health?
I do appreciate the subject of food, health and disease presented by the author for simplification, but is the subject of how to eat for optimal health and wellbeing indeed this simple? Veganism for everyone?
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts - whole foods are key. We do not know the exact chemical processes that happen within us when we digest food substances. What we do know is that the body is a very complicated bio computer that digests real whole foods well and we ... Read More
Rating: - A Andrews
This book is brilliant. Very well referenced. Because I have a chronic illness, and the links Campbell makes between chronic illness and animal protein are such a wake-up call, it made me go vegan the second I read it.
Rating: - I changed my diet immediately after reading this book.
I have read dozens of nutrition and health books, and (as so many other reviewers have said) this book changed my life more than any other. It demonstrates convincing and credible research that animal protein triggers cancer (and a host of other diseases we already knew about). After reading this book twice, I bought a bunch of vegetarian cookbooks and stopped eating meat (no small feat for me). I'm still working on the dairy, but my goal is to go 95% vegan. And, as a happy byproduct, I've ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent guide!
This book is loaded with factual info about health and diet. I'm so impressed with the science, I just couldn't argue and now follow a plant based diet. The evidence is so clear that rationality helped me make the switch to a much, much healthier diet. Here's to a long and healthy life! And to boot, a plant based diet is much healthier for our planet, also.
Rating: - Everyone should read this book!!
Reading this book could save your life. It is not light reading but it you want the truth about the best diet possible read this. Knowledge is power.
- Veganism for optimal health?
- A Andrews
