The China Study by Thomas Campbell

TURNING OFF CANCER 67 ciples involved in one thousand human cancers every year, one million human cancers every year, or more? W ...

................................................................................. 4 ............. Lessons from China A SNAPSHOT ...

70 THE CHINA STUDY well understood. It was to be a monumental survey of death rates for twelve different kinds of cancer for mor ...

LESSONS FROM CHINA 71 CHART 4.2. RANGE OF CANCER RATES IN CHINESE COUNTIES Cancer Site Males Females All Cancers 35-721 35-491 N ...

72 THE CHINA STUDY Because China is relatively homogenous genetically, it was clear that these differences had to be explained b ...

LESSONS FROM CHINA 73 four dozen different kinds of disease, including individual cancers, heart diseases and infectious disease ...

74 THE CHINA STUDY rural China only 9-10% of total calories comes from protein and only 10% of the protein comes from animal-bas ...

LESSONS FROM CHINA 75 crucial, as we primarily were concerned with comparing each county in China with every other county. Ours ...

76 THE CHINA STUDY could include a variety of possibilities, ranging from the geographic and environmental to the biological. Ho ...

LESSONS FROM (HINA 77 affluence and diseases of poverty. As a developing population accumu- lates wealth, people change their ea ...

78 THE CHINA STUDY measure dietary cholesterol any more than he or she can measure how many hot dogs and chicken breasts you've ...

LESSONS FROM CHINA 79 adult leukemia,1 childhood brain, adult brain,1 stomach and esophagus (throat) decreased. As you can see, ...

80 THE CHINA STUDY BLOOD CHOLESTEROL AND DIET Blood cholesterol is clearly an important indicator of disease risk. The big quest ...

LESSONS FROM CHINA 81 men was associated with increasing levels of "bad" blood cholesterolIIl whereas plant protein consumption ...

(^82) THE CHINA STUDY end of the day the average person who gorged on the float would be left scratching his head and feeling qu ...

LESSONS FROM CHINA 83 CHART 4.6: FAT CONTENT OF SAMPLE FOODS Food Percent derived of from calories fat Butter 100% McDonald's Do ...

84 THE (HINA STUDY generated a public discourse on diet and disease, it was the 1982 NAS report that gave momentum to this debat ...

LESSONS FROM CHINA 85 implied that diet and lifestyle were the principle causes of these dis- eases. It also suggested that gene ...

86 0.. o 25 ~ o 20 o (^6) o ...... (^2) ro 15 cr: .r:. +-' ro o (l) ""0 10 ~ :J ~ (l) ::t 5 o o THE (HINA STUDY CHART 4.9: PLANT ...

LESSONS FROM CHINA 87 25-30% fat was thought to be low enough to obtain the maximum amount of health benefits. This implied that ...