The China Study by Thomas Campbell

108 THE CHINA STUDY ings to see what other researchers have found regarding diet and health. As our research findings expanded f ...

DISEASES OF AFFLUENCE HERE IN AMERICA, we are affluent, and we die certain deaths because of it. We eat like feasting kings and ...

110 THE CHINA STUDY of heart disease, as well as obesity, diabetes, cataracts, macular degener- ation, Alzheimer's, cognitive dy ...

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112 THE CHINA STUDY If there is an "American" game, it is baseball; an "American" dessert, apple pie. If there is an "American" ...

BROKEN HEARTS 113 kink in a garden hose and watering a desperately dry garden with the resulting trickle of water! Why hadn't th ...

114 THE CHINA STUDY So how can we predict the timing of heart attacks? Unfortunately, with existing technologies, we can't. We c ...

BROKEN HEARTS 115 men with cholesterol levels "over 244 mgldL (milligrams per deciliter) have more than three times the incidenc ...

116 THE CHINA STUDY CHART 5.1: HEART DISEASE DEATH RATES FOR MEN AGED 55 TO 59 ACROSS 20 COUNTRIES, CIRCA 195516 800 II 700 I g ...

BROKEN HEARTS 117 in Japan, who were more likely to smoke, still had less coronary heart disease than the Japanese Americans.^19 ...

118 THE (HINA STUDY Angeles. He started a study in 1946 (two years before the Framingham Study) to "determine the relationship o ...

BROKEN HEARTS 119 In 1946, when this study began, most scientists believed that heart disease was an inevitable part of aging, a ...

120 THE CHINA STUDY (^2) o o (^6) o CHART 5.3: HEART DISEASE DEATH RATES FOR MEN AGED 55 TO 59 YEARS AND ANIMAL PROTEIN CONSUMPT ...

BROKEN HEARTS 121 ownership of radio, TV or motor car, with full head of hair and scrawny and un-athletic in appearance, yet con ...

122 THE CHINA STUDY pushed aside. Surgery, drugs, electronic devices and new diagnostic tools have stolen the spotlight. We now ...

BROKEN HEARTS 123 After all, heart disease is still our number one cause of death. Every twenty-four hours, almost 2,000 America ...

124 THE CHINA STUDY patients who undergo bypass operation do not have fewer heart attacks than those who do not have surgery. 12 ...

BROKEN HEARTS 125 As this information has resurfaced in the past two decades, the fight against the status quo has been heating ...

126 THE CHINA STUDY effort at prevention. I found the epidemiology of these diseases provocative, however: Three-quarters of the ...

BROKEN HEARTS 127 These eighteen patients achieved remarkable success. At the start of the study, the patients' average choleste ...