The China study : the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted and the startling implications for diet, weight loss and long-term health / T. Colin Campbell with Thomas M. Campbell II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, T. Colin, 1934- Author.

Campbell, Thomas M., II, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nutrition.

Nutritionally induced diseases.

Diet in disease.

Vegetarianism.

Food habits.

Physical Description:

xviii, 417 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

1st BenBella books ed.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Tex. : BenBella Books, 2005.

Summary:

This exhaustive presentation of the findings from the China Study conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. 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 65 counties, representing 2,500 counties across rural China and Taiwan. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that enjoy widespread popularity in the West. The impact of the politics of nutrition and the efforts of special interest groups on the creation and dissemination of public information on nutrition are also discussed.

This study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in 65 counties, representing 2,500 counties across rural China and Taiwan. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity, this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that enjoy widespread popularity in the West. The impact of the politics of nutrition and the efforts of special interest groups on the creation and dissemination of public information on nutrition are also discussed. [from Publisher description].

Contents:

Problems we face, solutions we need

A house of proteins

Turning off cancer

Lessons from China

Broken hearts

Obesity

Diabetes

Common cancers : breast, prostate, large bowel (colon and rectal)

Autoimmune diseases

Wide-ranging effects : bone, kidney, eye and brain diseases

Eating right : eight principles of food and health

How to eat

Science

the dark side

Scientific reductionism

The "science" of industry

Government : it is for the people?

Big medicine : whose health are they protecting?

Repeating histories.

Science

the dark side

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-404) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Copy: Balch Ethnic Studies Collection

ISBN:

1932100385

9781932100389

1932100660

9781932100662

OCLC:

54905518

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