Book Outline: THE CHINA STUDY
T Colin Campbell PhD
Introduction
America’s health is failing: 2/3 are overweight, 15 million have diabetes, 100 million have high cholesterol, the war against heart disease and cancer is being lost, young people increasingly are contracting “adult” diseases
[Note: PBS had a program on dealing with the 1/3 of American kids who are fat. As recommended by the National Pediatric Association, all children older than 2 will be tested annually for cholesterol, and appropriate drugs prescribed.]
Dr Campbell spent 40 years studying diet at the most advanced research levels:
Genes are implicated, but do not cause diseases: they predispose contracting them
Animal proteins in the bloodstream are the common trigger
Good diet is the single most powerful weapon against disease
Live longer and healthier, arrest and reverse disease, look younger and have more energy, lose weight, increase mental acuity, avoid doctors. The price: Eat right
Heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, autoimmune diseases, etc. can often bereversed
People who eat theleast animal protein, and the most natural plants, get the least disease
Plants need to be in their whole, unrefined state
People who eat themost animal protein [the “American” diet] get the most disease
Dairy foods, particularly cow’s milk, greatly increase risk of disease
Atkins and South Beach diets are deadly: Sacrifice long-term health to short-term loss
Diseases of Affluence
Compared to less“advanced” cultures, Americans are dying from diseases of affluence
Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, alzheimers, obesity, MS, osteoporosis, etc
The same diet that is good for one of these is good for all the others
If a vegetarian diet seems “impractical”, how “practical” is obesity, disease, surgery, etc?
Heart disease
In one study, 77% of Americans in their 20s had serious signs of incipient heart disease
A test was made of 18 people who had suffered, collectively, 49 serious coronary “events”
They were all put on a plant-based diet, with no drugs or surgery
In 11 years there was only 1 event, an angina attack—from a patient who stopped the diet
[By comparison, American medicine’s solution is to recommend ½ an aspirin a day]
Obesity
2/3 of American adults are overweight; half of those are obese—and it’s growing [a pun]
The first thing visitors from other countries notice is how heavy Americans are
Permanent weight loss results from a whole food, plant-based diet, with reasonable exercise
People who eat all they want lose 10-17 lbs in 3 weeks
Diabetes [costs America $130 billion each year]
Diabetics are subject to getting all the other “affluent diseases”, as well as many others
Type 1 [5 – 10% of diabetics] begins in childhood or adolescence
Body cannot produce insulin because pancreas destroyed
An autoimmune disease that has been linked to infant feeding of cow’s milk
Genes predispose, but casein is the “trigger”. Slowly-decreasing danger continues to age 14
Type 2 used to be called “adult onset”, but is occurring in younger and younger people
Pancreas produces insulin, but it doesn’t do its job. Often results from obesity
Diet is crucial to diabetics: Reduce animal proteins and increase whole, unrefined plant food
Deaths from diabetes are reduced by this diet from 20.4/100,000 to 2.9/100,000
After 3 weeks on a vegetarian diet, Type 1 diabetics lowered insulin medication up to 40%
Most Type 2 diabetics can stop insulin entirely [24 of 25 in one study]
Cancer
All studies show more cancer in societies eating more animal protein
Many chemicals are carcinogens, but they usually act as a trigger only from animal proteins
In lab tests, rats were fed aflatoxin, a cancer-causing chemical
Rats who had 20% protein, from cow’s milk, all got cancer; if 5% protein, none did
20% animal protein is what Americans consume as a typical diet
In the test, cancer could be turned on/off, by feeding/witholding animal protein!
All forms of cancer are subject to the same effects of diet, both pro and con
E.g., Breast cancer is linked to high levels of female hormones, increased by animal protein
Genes only predispose the disease, not determine it. A plant-based diet counters the causes
[Note: a recent study showed vitamin D can arrest, and even reverse, cancer]
Autoimmune Diseases
Includes Hyper/hypo-thyroid, MS, arthritis, lupus, type 1 diabetes, Crohn’s disease, etc.
250,000 Americans newly diagnosed each year
The body attacks itself, often triggered by a virus
More prevalent farther from equator, with use of cow’s milk and less Vitamin D
If caught in early stages can be reversed; can be slowed if caught later
When this book was written, 18 of 19 people on the National Academy of Science’s Food and Nutrition Board represented the meat, dairy, and egg industries
They label research about diseases and causes “controversial” to keep them from the public
Similar to how the connection between smoking and lung cancer was obfuscated for years
They spend $100s of millions each year to thwart findings they don’t like
They control the recommendations of the Academy, which are adopted by our Government:
Recommend up to 35% of calories from protein [no other authority recommends more than 10%], up to 35% from fat, up to 65% from carbs, and up to 25% from refined sugar!
Based on their “findings” the following is an adequate diet:
Breakfast: Fruitloops with skim milk, package of M&Ms, fiber and vitamin supplements.
Lunch: Cheeseburger. Dinner: 3 slices pepperoni pizza, 16 oz. soda, sugar cookies
These standards are used for all Government-financed programs, including school lunches
Good Nutrition Principles:
Nutrition is the combined activities of many foods, in complex chemical interactions
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Supplements cannot substitute for good diet
Vitamins D and B12are the only supplements recommended. Do not overdose on D
There are no animal nutrients that are not better provided by plants
Genes do not determine disease on their own. Nutrition determines whether they are activated
Good nutrition, to a large extent, can control the effects of noxious chemicals
The same nutrition that prevents disease can stop or even reverse it
The same nutrition good for one disease is generally good for all others
Eat all you want of whole, unrefined plant foods [precluding white flour, refined sugar, etc]
Eat only a minimum of other foods, but don’t obsess about it
Even after a month you will feel better, and begin to lose weight
THE WORD OF WISDOM [1833]
D&C89:7 And, again, strong drinks are not for the belly, but for the washing of your bodies.
8 And again, tobacco is not for the body, neither for the belly, and is not good for man, but is an herb for bruises and all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill.
9 And again, hot drinks are not for the body or belly.
10And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome herbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man—
11 Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used with prudence and thanksgiving.
12 Yea, flesh also of beasts and of the fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used sparingly;
13 And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or famine.
14 All grain is ordained for the use of man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all wild animals that run or creep on the earth;
15 And these hath God made for the use of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger.
16 All grain is good for the food of man; as also the fruit of the vine; that which yieldeth fruit, whether in the ground or above the ground—
17 Nevertheless, wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain.
18 And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones;
19 And shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures;
20 And shall run and not be weary, and shall walk and not faint.
21 And I, the Lord, give unto them a promise, that the destroying angel shall pass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen.
