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The China Study

by T Colin Campbell, PhD, and Thomas M Campbell, II

Colin Campbell, a highly respected NIH-funded scientist, gives us both scientific inquiry and personal experiences of the causes of cancer, among other diseases. China Study shows how our nation arrived at the highest rates of obesity, cancer, and heart disease in the world. That's right, the world. The richest nation in the world with the most expensive health care system anywhere is also the sickest. What do you expect when corporations, food and medical, care more for profits than humans.

The China Study follows how modern nutrition and modern chemistry, starting in the late 1800s, that the term "protein" became synonymous with high-quality nutrition and the central focus of our diets ignoring the fact plants can also provide us with protein, often a better quality protein. Afterall, where do vegetarian animals, like elephants, get their protein?

Type of information you will find in the book: In the mid 1960's, Dr Campbell was asked to help solve the problem of childhood malnutrition in the Philippines, easily solved by introducing peanuts into the diet. However, evidence showed peanuts were often contaminated with a fungus that produces the potent carcinogen, aflatoxin. Dr Campbell's investigation found high levels of aflatoxin in the urine of children afflicted with primary liver cancer. Eventually it was revealed that the peanut butter was laced with aflatoxin from mold-ridden peanuts. This investigation might have ended there but for the intersection of two isolated pieces of data. A prominent Manila physician told Dr Campbell of his observation that childhood liver cancer afflicted only the best-nourished children. Around this time, Dr Campbell read an obscure study indicating rats subjected to aflatoxin on a high-protein diet had a 100% incidence of liver cancer, while rats subjected to aflatoxin fed a low-protein diet had a 0% incidence of liver cancer! Dr Campbell eventually repeated and expanded the aflatoxin-protein study in rats and demonstrated that while aflatoxin initiates cancerous foci, the growth of foci into cancerous tumors is fueled by the consumption of animal protein. It was also found that when taken off a high-protein diet recovery from cancer occurred and when high-protein was reintroduced, the cancer came back.

This is not the only fact presented causing the reader to consider what they may be doing to their bodies through the food choices they make. Read the book to learn more as it is well cited.

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