The China Study by Thomas Campbell

IN 0 EX 413

multiple sclerosis, 194-98, 196, 197, 337

See also autoimmune diseases

Multiple Sclerosis International

Federation, 201

myasthenia gravis, 199

myelin, 195

N
N-nitroso-methylurea (NMU), 65
Nader, Ralph, 46
Nakajima, Hiroshi, 348
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Diet, Nutrition and Cancer (report),
83-84,255,260-61,269
Food and Nutrition Board, 255
Toward Healthful Diets (report), 258
National Cancer Institute, 315
National Cattlemen's Beef Association,
299 , 328
National Cholesterol Education Program,
131-32
National Dairy Council, 264, 290-91,
299 , 312, 328
National Dairy Promotion and Research
Board,290
National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion
Board,290
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute,
315
National Institutes of Health (NIH),
47-48,314-17, 315
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 194
National Research Council, 327
National Watermelon Promotion Board,
291
Natural Resources Defense Council
(NRDC), 43
Navratilova, Martina, 23
nervous system, 194-95
Nestle, 312 , 328
Newberne, Paul, 37
NIH (National Institutes of Health),
47-48,314-17, 315
nitrites, 44
nitrosamines, 45-46
NMU (N-nitroso-methylurea), 65

Northeast Dairy Foods Research Center,

299

NRDE (Natural Resources Defense

Council), 43

Nurses' Health Study, 272-80, 284-88,

316

nutrition

autoimmune diseases, 237

blood cholesterol, 80-81

cancer, 50, 60-61, 181-82, 260-61,

271

in China, 21-22, 74 , 2 73-74, 358

confusion, xv, 1, 19-20,224, 250,

281-84

cost benefits, 24

dietary fat, 81-82

disease prevention and cure, 23,

109-10,182, 236-37, 260,316,

343-46

education, 317-18, 327-29

effect on health, 3, 7, 22-24, 105-7,

305,335

environmental chemicals, 235

exercise, 142-43

food interactions, 226-28

genetic predisposition to disease, 23

government dietary recommendations,

131-33, 307

government funding of research, 315

industry influence, 311-13

liver cancer, 66

physician ignorance about nutrition,

327-29

in schools, 317-18

scientific or research committees,

253-68

tumor development, 66

in the United States, 273-74, 273-78,

276-77, 358

See also diseases of affluence; diseases

of poverty

Nutrition in Medicine, 328

nutrition programs

Philippines, 33-35