The China Study by Thomas Campbell

PROBLEMS WE FACE, SOLUTIONS WE NEED 25 My journey in science over the past forty-five years has convinced me that it is now more ...

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28 THE CHINA STUDY Confusion reigns on many of the most basic questions about protein: What are good sources of protein? How mu ...

A HOUSE OF PROTEINS 29 recommended 125 grams per day (only about fifty-five grams per day is now recommended). Later, we will se ...

30 THE CHINA STUDY This process of disassembling and reassembling the amino acids of proteins is like someone giving us a multic ...

A HOUSE OF PROTEINS 31 showing that "low-quality" plant protein, which allows for slow but steady synthesis of new proteins, is ...

32 THE CHINA STUDY I went all the way through my graduate studies with a profound be- lief that promoting high-quality protein, ...

A HOUSE OF PROTEINS 33 that ". .. by and large, the lack of protein is without question the most serious qualitative deficiency ...

34 THE CHINA STUDY make their children well, they would not have to rely on scarce medicines and the mostly nonexistent doctors. ...

A HOUSE OF PROTEINS 35 In the urban areas of some of the big cities, as many as 15-20% of the children aged three to six years w ...

36 THE CHINA STUDY Our second question concerned who was most susceptible to this AF contamination and its cancer-producing effe ...

A HOUSE OF PROTEINS 37 Every single rat fed 20 % protein got liver cancer or its precursor lesions, but not a single animal fed ...

38 THE CHINA STUDY one solution: start doing fundamental laboratory research to see not only if, but also how, consuming more pr ...

A HOUSE OF PROTEINS 39 with disease rates in 1990, then observe whether any changes in disease rates correspond to dietary chang ...

40 THE CHINA STUDY cancer. A classic illustration of this difficulty is that countries with more telephone poles often have a hi ...

A HOUSE OF PROTEINS 41 MECHANISMS OF ACTION Oftentimes correlations are considered more reliable if other research shows that tw ...

3 ............................... .................. ..................... Turning Off Cancer AMERICANS DREAD CANCER more than ...

44 THE CHINA STUDY Aminotriazole (herbicide used on cranberry crops, causing the "cranberry scare'" of 1959) DDT (widely known ...

TURNING OFF CANCER 45 In 1970, the journal Nature reported that the nitrite we consume may be reacting in our bodies to form nit ...

46 THE CHINA STUDY So, in 1970, when an article in the prestigious journal Nature con- cluded that nitrites help to form nitrosa ...