The China Study by Thomas Campbell

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kidney stones, 212-14
large bowel cancer, 170-74
lycopene, 300-302
macular degeneration, 215-17
metanalysis, 41
multiple sclerosis, 195
Nurses' Health Study, 272-80
osteoporosis, 205-10
pharmaceutical industry, 332-34
in the Philippines, 21 , 33-35
prostate cancer, 300-302
protein, 351-52
stroke, 220-21
vitamin supplements, 229
women's health, 272-80
See also China Study, The
Scott, Dave, 23
selenium, 280
Seneca, 345-46
Seventh-day Adventists, 149-50, 335
simple carbohydrates, 98-99
60 Minutes (television program), 43
smoking, 122 , 256
Socrates, 344-45
sodium nitrite, 44-46
South Africa, 172-74, 173
South Beach Diet. See high-protein diet
soy protein, 60
spinach,227
Stampfer, Meir, 281
Starfield, Barbara, 15
statistical Significance, 40, 77
statistics
autoimmune diseases, 183
diabetes, 15
health in the United States, 3,
346-47
obesity, 13-14, 13-14, 135-38
Steinem, Gloria, 88
Stillings, Bruce, 33
stomach cancer, 94
stroke, 94, 218, 220-21, 282
Sugar Association, 310
sugar industry, 309-10
See also food industry
sugars, 98-99, 306-10

sunshine, 180 , 199-200,231-32,363-65

Swank, Roy, 195-96, 337

T

T-cells, 185, 200

Taco Bell, 312

tamoxifen, 163-64

thermogenesis, 142, 352

Thompson, Tommy, 310

Tove, Sam, 265

Toward Healthful Diets (NAS report),

258

toxic food environment, xv

transgenic mice, 62-64

tumor development, 60-61, 61 , 66-67

Turner,james 5.,255

Type 1 and 2 diabetes. See diabetes

U

United Egg Producers, 290

United Nations Food and Agriculture

Organization, 32-33, 309-10

United States

breast cancer in, 71, 79

calorie consumption, 99-102

death rates, 79, 111-12

diabetes in, 15, 189

diet and nutrition, 15, 74,273-74,

273-78,276-77,358

health statistics, 3, 346-47

heart disease in, 79 , Ill-12, 123

United States Department of Agriculture

(USDA),28

United States National Institutes of

Health (NIH), 47-48, 314-17, 315

United States Preventive Services Task

Force, 288

United States Senate Select Committee on

Nutrition, 83

urinary calcium, 205-6,206, 214

USDA (United States Department of

Agriculture), 28

V

vascular dementia, 218

vegetables, 92-93, 98-99