This is the book I've recommended more than any other on the evidence for the benefits of a plant-based diet.
Dr. Colin Campbell is Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and has been studying biochemistry as it relates to nutrition for decades. His own research led him to adopt a plant-based (vegan) lifestyle. The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
not only reports on the findings of the "most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted," it also gives Campbell's reflections on health and nutrition in America based on his access to the inner sanctums of government and education. Bottom line: the medical, government, and educational industries in America do not always have the best interests of humans and health as their top priority.
You'll need to read the book to appreciate the astounding depth of evidence and conclusions Campbell has compiled. But here's the message of the book in a nutshell (the evidence from the 20-year-long China Study): "People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease" (page 7).
If you are at all concerned about your health, and the health of people you care about, I cannot urge you strongly enough to buy and read this book -- and encourage others to do so as well.
[Disclaimer: I come at my support for a plant-based lifestyle from a biblical (Gen. 1:29), as well as evidentiary, perspective. Dr. Campbell's book comes purely from the latter. I have no idea what his spiritual or religious convictions are -- he never discusses them in the book. However, I find it comforting that his scientific, evidentiary conclusions harmonize perfectly with the plant-based (vegan) lifestyle described in Genesis.]
Dr. Colin Campbell is Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and has been studying biochemistry as it relates to nutrition for decades. His own research led him to adopt a plant-based (vegan) lifestyle. The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
not only reports on the findings of the "most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted," it also gives Campbell's reflections on health and nutrition in America based on his access to the inner sanctums of government and education. Bottom line: the medical, government, and educational industries in America do not always have the best interests of humans and health as their top priority.You'll need to read the book to appreciate the astounding depth of evidence and conclusions Campbell has compiled. But here's the message of the book in a nutshell (the evidence from the 20-year-long China Study): "People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease" (page 7).
If you are at all concerned about your health, and the health of people you care about, I cannot urge you strongly enough to buy and read this book -- and encourage others to do so as well.
[Disclaimer: I come at my support for a plant-based lifestyle from a biblical (Gen. 1:29), as well as evidentiary, perspective. Dr. Campbell's book comes purely from the latter. I have no idea what his spiritual or religious convictions are -- he never discusses them in the book. However, I find it comforting that his scientific, evidentiary conclusions harmonize perfectly with the plant-based (vegan) lifestyle described in Genesis.]
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