The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health

Colin Campbell

Jun 2006 · BenBella Books, Inc.

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

If you read John Robbins books, you should read this book as well. John Robbins wrote the Forward to this book. Dr. Campbell present a lot of very convincing scientific results on the benefit of plant-based foods. But the best part of the book, in my opinion, are the chapters in which he described how the food industry seeks to hide this information from the public in order to advance their own agenda.

This book is a MUST READ. It is informative, true, and how everyone should eat. What an amazing life long devotion Dr. Campbell has to help you and me live healthy lives. Excellent book.

I think it should replace the health classes in the schools and colleges, because it gives you the real world situations and solutions, and they really work.

About the author

For more than 40 years, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, 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 the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. He has received more than 70 grant years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers. The China Study was the culmination of a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.

A 1999 graduate of Cornell University and recipient of a medical degree in 2010, Thomas M. Campbell II, MD, is a writer, actor and five-time marathon runner.