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I thought I would share many of the  highlights of this incredible study. I highly recommending reading this book.

About Dr. Campbell:
For more than 40 years, Dr. T. Colin Campbell 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 Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional BioChemistry at Cornell University. He has received more than seventy grant years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored and co-authored more than 350 research papers. The China Study was the culmination of a twenty year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.


These are the 8 Principles outlined in his study of food, health and disease :

Principle #1
Nutrition represents the combined activi
ties of countless food substances. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Principle #2
Vitamin Supplements are not a panacea for good health.
 
Principle #3
There are virtually no nutrients in animal-based foods that are not better provided by plants.

Principle #4
Genes do not determine disease on their own. Genes function only by being activated, or expressed, and nutrition plays a critical role in determining which genes, good and bad, are expressed.

Principle #5
Nutrition can substantially control the adverse effects of noxious chemicals.

Principle #6
The same nutrition that prevents disease in it's early stages (before diagnosis) can also halt or reverse disease in its later stages (after diagnosis).

Principle #7
Nutrition that is truly beneficial for one chronic disease will support health across the board.

Principle #8
Good nutrition creates health in all areas of out existence. All parts are interconnected.

More from Dr. Campbell:


"The findings from the China Study indicate that the lower the percentage of animal-based foods that are consumed, the greater the health benefits-even when that percentage declines from 10% to 0% of calories. So it's not unreasonable to assume that the optimum percentage of animal-based products is zero."

"I did not begin with preconceived ideas, philosophical or otherwise, to prove the worthiness of plant-based diets. I started at the opposite end of the spectrum: as a meat-loving dairy farmer in my personal life and an "establishment" scientist in my professional life. I even used to lament the view of vegetarians as I taught nutritional biochemistry to pre-med students. My only interest now is to explain the scientific basis for my views in the clearest way possible."

"Through all of this, I have come to see that the benefits produced by eating a plant-based diet are far more diverse and impressive than any drug or surgery used in medical practice. Heart diseases, cancers, diabetes, stroke and hypertention, arthritis, cataracts, Alzheimers disease, impotence and all sorts of other chronic diseases can be largely prevented."

"Additionally impressive evidence now exists to show that advanced heart disease, relatively advanced cancers of certain types, diabetes and a few other degenerative diseases can be reversed by diet."

"One of the more exciting benefits of good nutrition is the prevention of diseases that are thought to be due to genetic predisposition. We now know that we can largely avoid these "genetic" diseases even though we may harbor the gene (or genes) that is (are) responsible for the disease."

"My journey in science over the past forty-five years has convinced me that it is now more urgent than ever to show how people can avoid these tragedies."

"..at the beginning of my career, I would have never guessed that food is so closely related to health problems."

He noticed a research report from India that studied two groups of rats. In one group, they administered the cancer-causing aflatoxin, then fed a diet that waas composed of 20% protein. In the other group, they administered the same amount of aflatoxin, but then fed a diet that was only composed of 5% protein. Incredibly, every single animal that consumed the 20% protein diet had evidence of liver cancer, and every single animal that consumed a 5% protein diet avoided liver cancer. "It was a 100 to 0 score, leaving no doubt that nutrition trumped chemical carcinogens, even very potent carcinogen, in controlling cancer. This information countered everything I had been taught. It was heretical to say that protein wasn't healthy, let alone say it promoted cancer. It was a defining moment in my career."
"Questioning protein and animal-based foods in general ran the risk of my being labeled a heretic, even it if passed the test of "good science."

"Good food and good health is simple..eat a whole foods, plant-based diet, while minimizing the consumption of refined foods, added salt and added fats."

The only supplements he recommends:
"Daily supplements of Vit.B12 and Vit. D for people who (do not get enough sunshine) and do not exceed RDA recommendation."