The China Study by Thomas Campbell

4 TH E CH I NA STU DY More than forty years ago, at the beginning of my career, I would have never guessed that food is so close ...

INTRODUCTION 5 After leaving MIT and taking a faculty position at Virginia Tech, I began coordinating technical assistance for a ...

6 THE CHINA STUDY following directions. When I first learned to drive a team of horses or herd cattle, to hunt animals, to fish ...

INTRODUCTION 7 These experimental animal studies didn't end there. I went on to direct the most comprehensive study of diet, lif ...

8 THE CHINA STUDY consider to be an inevitable disease. I've talked with women who are so terrified of breast cancer that they w ...

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12 THE CHINA STUDY wooden barn floor in front of us and then opened a box containing fine black powder. The powder, he explained ...

PROBLEMS WE FACE, SOLUTIONS WE NEED CHART 1.1: CANCER DEATH RATES (PER 100,000 PEOPLE)1 250 200 150 100 50 O~--L-- 1972-1974 199 ...

14 THE CHINA STUDY person above and beyond a healthy weight. Similarly frightening trends have been occurring in children as you ...

PROBLEMS WE FACE, SOLUTIONS WE NEED 15 DIABETES STATISTICS Percent Increase in Incidence from 1990 to 19985 : Age 30-39 (70%) • ...

16 THE (HINA STUDY CHART 1.4: LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH12 Diseases of the Heart 710,760 Cancer (Malignant 553,091 Medical Corell 2 ...

PROBLEMS WE FACE, SOLUTIONS WE NEED 17 not accomplish their intended goal. In other words, one of fifteen is a conservative numb ...

18 THE CHINA STUDY CHART 1.6: HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES PER PERSON, 1997 $USI7 3912 (^4000) r- 3000 (^2364 2175) ~ ..^2047 2000 ~ ...

PROBLEMS WE FACE, SOLUTIONS WE NEED^19 that we spend more money on health care than any other country on this planet, and we sti ...

20 THE CHINA STUDY details while ignoring the larger context. For example, we pin our efforts and our hopes on one isolated nutr ...

PROBLEMS WE FACE, SOLUTIONS WE NEED 21 prescription isn't merely a menu plan; it doesn't require daily charts or calorie countin ...

22 THE CHINA STUDY thought to be related to varied dietary practices, thus providing the op- portunity to investigate diet and d ...

PROBLEMS WE FACE, SOLUTIONS WE NEED 23 tence and all sorts of other chronic diseases can be largely prevented. These diseases, w ...

24 THE CHINA STUDY plant-based diet gives them a significant edge in performance. In the laboratory, we fed experimental rats a ...