The China Study by Thomas Campbell

vegetarianism or veganism. See plant-

based diet

Virginia Tech, 33

viruses, 190, 197-99

vitamin supplements, 2, 94-95, 216 ,

228 - 29, 242,269-70,288

vitamins, 29, 93 , 269

vitamin A, 231

vitamin B 12 , 232

vitamin C, 93-94, 302-3

vitamin D, 179-81, 200-201, 208,

231,361-68,363

Voit, Carl, 28

W
Webb, Ryland, 34
weight (gain or loss), 102-4, 138-43
Wendy's, 289
Western diseases. See diseases of
affluence
whole foods, 2,98,106,141,228-29,
262 ,270-71,302
See also plant-based diet

IN D E X 417

WIC (Women, Infants and Children

Supplemental Feeding program),

312,313

Willett, Walter, 271-75, 284, 286

Women, Infants and Children

Supplemental Feeding Program

(WIC), 312 , 313

Women's Health Initiative (WHI), 166 ,

316

Women's Health Trial, 277-78

World Health Organization, 309-10

World Sugar Research Organization, 310

Wyeth-Ayerst LaboratOries, 328

y

Youngman, Linda, 56

Z

zinc, 252