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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study on Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long Term Health |  | Author: Colin T Campbell
Creator: Stefan Rudnicki
Publisher: Phoenix Audio
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Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 1597772992
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
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Publication Date: July 12, 2009
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The China Study offers conclusive evidence that a change of diet can dramatically reduce the risks of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. The book is based on the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted, a 20-year joint project between Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. The study surveyed the eating habits of 6,500 adults from all over China and Taiwan and found a direct correlation between diet and disease. Author T. Colin Campbell, the study’s project director, provides an intelligent, well-documented analysis of the study’s results, an analysis that explodes the most common American dietary myths. In addressing the dietary sources of the most common diseases, including cancer, Campbell unleashes a no-holds-barred attack on the commercial interests that profit by selling the American public unhealthy food. He also shows how readers can use the study’s results to change their diets and improve their health.
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 The China Study March 21, 2010
Fred De Marco (Milford, Michigan USA)
This book stands out for its enlightenment of the bodily functions regarding diet and long term good health. It reveals the importance of healthy eating and how vital nutrition is to the betterment of life. The fact that cancer and many other diseases have a direct connection to the lack of good nutrition is defined so wonderfully in this book. It is changing my selection of the foods I consume now and I regard nutrition with greater understanding. I've not finished the book, but I will be very soon and I will pass it on to my children hoping this will help them to secure a better future, both physically and mentally. I've touted this book to all those that will listen and I most certainly let them know I purchased it through Amazon.com. at a very reasonable price.
A life changing book March 20, 2010
Jalna (Florida)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of the most important books of my life and it will become an increasingly important book for Americans who need an alternative to the traditional health care system. If you want to be healthy, stay healthy and avoid doctors and hospitals, this book is a must read. I believe it is the solution to a million global problems. Make this book your priority.
 Absurd advice only an American would follow March 19, 2010
S P
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Humans evolved as hunter-gatherers. One of the main driving forces behind human social cooperation and increase in brain size, as well as pattern recognition, was the hunt for animal meat. Almost all human societies, to this day, eat animal products of one kind or another.
It's overkill to think that a diet based only on plants is best. It neglects that throughout human history, fish have been one of the healthiest foods one can eat (perhaps not so much now, due to toxins). It neglects that even red meat consumed in minimal amounts is quite alright. Granted, if all you are eating is red meat and dairy, that's a different story.
Where is the balance? In my opinion, Americans are so confused and frightened by the obesity crisis that they are willing to believe anything about any diet, in their never ending quest to eliminate all pain and suffering and be the first person to live to 200 years. Get over yourselves! Are Americans really that crazy? Half of them obese and in terrible heath, and half of them so obsessed with disease that they try to avoid anything that may or may not cause it. I'm sure most Chinese people would laugh at this book.
Of course, a mostly plant based diet is probably healthier. Notice how I said mostly, not entirely. There is no magic bullet to health. The author is doing a disservice to many people (but a great service to himself through book sales to zealous vegans) when he implies that all chronic disease can be prevented, if only people would eliminate animal products from their diet.
Just because the author is credentialed does not mean he knows everything. Smart individuals can sometimes be predisposed to trying to find a "theory of everything" in this field - see Linus Pauling and Vitamin C.
If there was a diet that everybody could and would follow that would enable all of to avoid disease, it would have been found long ago.
Bottom line - if you want your kids to grow up fragile and dimwitted, and if you want to miss out on one of the enjoyments of life, by all means, avoid eating meat.
When scientists disregard data, this is the result. March 17, 2010
C. Russell (Georgia USA)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
After reading "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes, I thought I would investigate this book which purports the exact opposite of Taubes findings. "The China Study" was obviously written by a scientist who has his opinions and wants them to be right no matter what the outcomes of his cited study. As a masters in nutrition student, it has been drilled into my head that you have to go with the results of the study, no matter how disappointing they are in supporting your hypothesis. This is how science works. You do an experiment, you assess the results and publish. Your hypothesis is either proved or disproved. "TCS" obviously has a bias and that is: don't eat meat, eat vegetables and you'll be healthy. But after reviewing the study that this book was based on, somehow they find it ok to tweak the results and support their view that eating meat is bad.
This debate will go on likely for many years to come. Only once people actually read the science that backs up low-carb, higher protein intake for good health, will we ever make any headway here. About 40% of what I have just spent 3 years studying in order to become a registered dietician is wrong. Low-fat diets may work by starving the individual to eat less calories, but when the diet stops and the person goes back to their regular way of eating, they usually gain all the weight back and then some. For most people, eating low-fat just makes you fatter or atleast keeps you from losing.
Protein and fat fill you up. Carbs make you more hungry. Study after study and diet after diet proves this. If you are vegetarian, this will make you mad. I understand. I also know that when I spent 10 years eating a low-fat, mostly plant based diet, with occasional lean protein like egg whites and fish, I gained 30 pounds. I exercised, which made me more hungry. I would not eat when I was hungry at night, thinking I'm losing, so get used to the feeling of hunger. I would eat "balanced meals" through out the day, spacing out the calories I was supposed to consume (1700 kcal) and recorded all this in a food diary.
But 30 pounds heavier, I have to conclude that low-fat/high-carb is not for me. My body craves protein and fat and after reading well-substantiated books such as GCBC and Atkins books, I have already lost 10 pounds in 2 months. I don't consider low-carb/high-fat/higher-protein as a diet. It is a lifestyle. I no longer need to record what I eat. My body tells me when to stop eating, not my food diary calorie allotment. I exercise less vigorously and enjoy it more with my young children just taking walks with them. I eat sustainable protein sources from grass-fed farms, organic leafy greens, full fat salad dressings, and cream in my coffee (among many other delicious things). I have more energy, I don't think about food all the time, sleep better, have clearer skin, and need a new wardrobe.
I look forward to practicing as a registered dietician one day. It will be an uphill battle teaching others about the well-supported benefits of low-carb eating, and with poorly written books like "The China Study" out there, it will be even harder.
Educate yourself. You HAVE to look at the science and do what is right for you. If you can eat as a vegetarian and you feel great, good for you! You are one of the "lucky" ones. I, on the other hand say.....please pass the bacon and get yourself a copy of "Good Calories, Bad Calories" instead. It will set you on a totally different course and change your life for the better.
PS: Remember that if you want to look like a hippopotamus, then eat like one - a vegetarian.
 China study March 16, 2010
Virginia A. Klein (surprise AZ)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got the book cause it was recommended to aid me in some of Illness and for learning to be Vegan eater. So far I have just read over some of the pages to make sure I am eating Healthy . Which is a great help.
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