The China Study by Thomas Campbell

128 THE CHINA STUDY CHART 5.4: CORONARY ARTERY BEFORE AND AFTER CONSUMING PLANT-BASED DIET adopting a whole foods, plant-based d ...

BROKEN HEARTS 129 Can any sane person dispute these findings? It seems impossible. If you remember nothing else about this chapt ...

130 THE CHINA STUDY the researchers asked of them and were rewarded with improved health and vitality. On average, their total c ...

BROKEN HEARTS 131 of health professionals at eight diverse sites have been trained to treat heart disease patients with Dr. Omis ...

132 THE CHINA STUDY pitch moderate diets with trivial changes as being healthy lifestyle "goals." If you are at high risk for he ...

BROKEN HEARTS 133 his scientific colleagues, write, "The point of our study was to determine what is true, not what is practicab ...

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136 THE (HINA STUDY CHART 6.1: BODY MASS INDEX TABLE Normal Overweight Obese 8MI 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 35 40 (kg/m ...

OBESITY 137 blunt; sometimes the playground can be a merciless place. Overweight children find it more difficult to make friends ...

138 THE CHINA STUDY This is an economic black hole that sucks our money away without offering anything in return. Imagine paying ...

OBESITY 139 searching. Simply trust your observations on who is slim, vigorous and healthy, and who is not. Or trust the finding ...

140 THE (HINA STUDY as a whole foods, plant-based diet. Some people become vegetarian only to replace meat with dairy foods, add ...

OBESITY 141 hungry is a sign that something is wrong, and prolonged hunger causes your body to slow the overall rate of metaboli ...

142 TH E CH I NA STU DY Americans and the least active Chinese, those who do office work. Fur- thermore, studies done in IsraeF4 ...

OBESITY 143 had strikingly less cancer, lower blood cholesterol levels and longer lives. They also consumed slightly more calori ...

144 THE (HINA STUDY publicity given to the discovery of "the obesity gene." Then there was the discovery of a second gene relate ...

.... 1 Diabetes TYPE 2 DIABETES, the most common form, often accompanies obesity. As we, as a nation, continue to gain weight, o ...

146 THE CHINA STUDY In both types, the disease begins with dysfunctional glucose metabo- lism. Normal metabolism goes like this: ...

D lAB ETES 147 is diagnosed by the observation of elevated blood sugar levels, or its "spillage" into urine. What are the long-t ...

148 THE CHINA STUDY Modern drugs and surgery offer no cure for diabetics. At best, current drugs allow diabetics to maintain a r ...