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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health |  | Authors: T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II
Creators: Howard Lyman, John Robbins
Publisher: BenBella Books
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Pages: 417
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 1932100660
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
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Publication Date: May 11, 2006
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Part Medical Thriller, Part Governmental Expose and Part Nutrition Manual. Dr. Campbell issues a stark warning against the imminent "Atkins Backlash". This is NOT a diet book. Consumers are bombarded with conflicting messages regarding health and nutrition; the market is flooded with popular titles like "The Atkins Diet" and "The South Beach Diet". Dr. Campbell cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and those concerned with the effect of ageing. Dr. Campbell challenges the validity of these low-carb fad diets and issues a startling warning to their followers. "The New York Times" has recognised the study ("China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project") as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" and the "most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease".
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 Too logical to ignore July 29, 2010
Spider Canyon (Florida)
Dr. Campbell has done a magnificent job documenting his findings. It's irrefutable--animal products in the diet are risky for your health; you can eat just as well with a predominantly vegetable diet. Whole foods versus supplements? No contest--whole foods win. This book forwards a recommendation for a non-obsessive change to a whole approach to nutrition. The benefits: reduced/no heart disease, diabetes, MS, cancer, macular degeneration, osteoporosis. Hey what else is there!
Have I followed the recommendations? Yes, and it was easy. I've become a "flexitarian" (I still eat a little meat occasionally). I'm an old man (68), and I really want to stay healthy; since I already love whole vegetables, fruit, and grains, why not go for it!
Unfortunately, none of my friends or family were as excited about this as I. I can't live for them! If the book looks daunting, just read the first section on cancer, just that section. If you don't get pulled in, then best wishes.
Campbell only becomes preachy at the very end of the book. But hey! I can take it; the first part overwhelmingly makes up for it. I'll get back with you in ten years and let you know how I've been doing. For some dimension, see also "The Omnivore's Dilemma," by Michael Pollan. Great book. Related info, but not the same.
A must-read July 27, 2010
Jill Sirovich
This book is very easy to read and full of valuable health and diet information. This book is not for someone looking for a quick-fad diet to lose a couple pounds, but for someone who is looking for over all life-long health. I urge everyone to read it.
 Observational Studies are NOT Reliable for Cause July 27, 2010
JerzeyBird
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although the author does quite the job dissing diets that do not fall within his idealogy, the abject weakness of observational studies such as this do nothing to deter the claim that this is "the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted". While reading this [as one with an M.S. degree in physiology], I kept saying to myself, "but what about *this* possible confounding variable, what about *that* possible confounding variable?!?!?!" These are never addressed, and what the non-scientific reader is left with is the hugely powerful suggestion that this data is not only strong, but says something about disease and diet. It does not. Although it does say a lot about entitlement to credibility via institutional authority.
This is exactly the same kind of institutional thinking and career-making that brought us the lipid hypothesis of heart disease, now largely discredited in the scientific community, but still foisted upon the public by physicians and institutions alike. As for claims that Atkins or other such "fad" diets lack the credibility of controlled studies, the good doctor should read even one of the many papers published by Jeff Volek, PhD at UConn, as just one of the many scientists now doing controlled research on carbohydrate restricted dietary interventions into metabolic disease.
My personal feeling about the correlations derived in The China Study is that we should ASAP be looking into the relationships between aflatoxin and cancer in humans, and wheat specifically and heart disease.
The good news is that we are no longer at the mercy of a world without immediate global communication, and as such it looks like it won't be another 50 years - as it was with the lipid hypothesis and the terrible public policy of the food pyramid and the resultant diabetes/heart disease epidemic - before others will analyze this data from The China Study and disseminate the analyses. These have already begun:
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the China Study July 27, 2010
Gail (FALLBROOK, CALIFORNIA, US)
Very informative and gives a good argument for eating a plant based diet.Reenforces the importance of nutrition in treating and preventing diseasees and healthy"aging".
Amazing information July 27, 2010
Frederick J. Smith
The China Study was recommended by my son who is a Chiropractor and recognized that I needed to change my eating habits. I have Prostate Cancer and am following some of the suggestions from the book. The research that has gone int this study is amazing and should be recommended reading for all parents that are concerned with the well-being of their children. What we have eaten throughout our lives has poisoned our systems and what we can learn from the studies done from observations of other countries is unbelievable. Nutrition is everything and adjustments to our diet will help us live longer, happier lives.
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