The China Study by Thomas Campbell

148 THE CHINA STUDY

Modern drugs and surgery offer no cure for diabetics. At best, current

drugs allow diabetics to maintain a reasonably functional lifestyle, but

these drugs will never treat the cause of the disease. As a consequence,

diabetics face a lifetime of drugs and medications, making diabetes an

enormously costly disease. The economic toll of diabetes in the u.s.:

over $130 billion a year.^2

But there is hope. In fact, there is much more than hope. The food

we eat has enormous influence over this disease. The right diet not only

prevents but also treats diabetes. What, then, is the "right" diet? You

can probably guess what I'm going to say, but let the research speak for

itself.

NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T

Like most chronic diseases, diabetes shows up more often in some parts

of the world than in others. This has been known for a hundred years.

It has also been well documented that those populations with low rates

of diabetes eat different diets than those populations with high rates

of diabetes. But is that just a coincidence, or is there something else at

work?

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