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    The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health
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    The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health
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    The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

    By T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell, II

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    The revised and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of lives

    The science is clear. The results are unmistakable.

    You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet.

    More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease. What they found when combined with findings in Colin’s laboratory, opened their eyes to the dangers of a diet high in animal protein and the unparalleled health benefits of a whole foods, plant-based diet.

    In 2005, Colin and his son Tom, now a physician, shared those findings with the world in The China Study, hailed as one of the most important books about diet and health ever written.

    Featuring brand new content, this heavily expanded edition of Colin and Tom’s groundbreaking book includes the latest undeniable evidence of the power of a plant-based diet, plus updated information about the changing medical system and how patients stand to benefit from a surging interest in plant-based nutrition.

    The China StudyRevised and Expanded Edition presents a clear and concise message of hope as it dispels a multitude of health myths and misinformation. The basic message is clear. The key to a long, healthy life lies in three things: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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    Release dateDec 27, 2016
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    The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health
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    T. Colin Campbell

    T. Colin Campbell, PhD, is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and the coauthor of the best-selling books The China Study and Whole.

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    • 5/5
      Incendiary Refresher Course-There is a mountain of scientific evidence to show that the healthiest diet you can possibly consume is a high carbohydrate diet. -The past 60 years have been a celebration of chemicals and technology instead of diet and prevention. So we don’t die from heart disease as often, but we still get it at about the same rates. Those who have bypass surgery do not have fewer heart attacks than those who do not. -Calcium builds strong bones, but cow’s milk weakens them, as osteoporosis. Americans, Australians and New Zealanders drink the most milk, and have the most bone fractures from middle age on. -One of the biggest health hoaxes in history is the nutrient supplement industry. -The health damage from doctors’ ignorance of nutrition is astounding. Welcome back to The China Study, still straight-shooting, still dramatic, and about 70 pages longer in the new edition. This book provides more training in the health effects of food than MDs get in all their years of education. The clinical studies, the case histories and the science are all here in plain, direct language. It is a very hard book to put down. The facts, usually contrary to everything we’ve been taught, keep coming fast and hard.The reason the facts are contrary is of course because of the usual suspects: Big Ag, Big Pharma and Big Processors. They have corrupted our universities with grants, infiltrated government agencies to keep the truth at bay, and spend billions advertising their false promises. We grow up with their falsehoods, and we believe in them. Those who try to speak out are isolated, shunned, removed and fired. It is all examined in you-are-there detail, because it all happened to Colin Campbell and other (once) highly-regarded doctors he profiles.Campbell’s basic premise is that animal protein destroys our internal ecosystem. A Whole Food, Plant-Based diet not only maintains better health, it can even reverse damage. The scientific proof is endless – and so are the defenders of the SAD – Standard American Diet - that is about one third animal, between meat and dairy.When I read the first China Study ten years ago, I immediately went back online and ordered a whole case of them. I then mailed them out to friends all over, preceded by an e-mail warning and my review. That’s how impressed I was. This second edition forced me to reread it. In so doing, I came across several strong new claims and rushed to the first edition, only to find they were already there. So this edition is as much a badly needed refresher as a new discovery. Glad they made me do it.David Wineberg
    • 5/5
      I was once told that if you really cared about someone and you've read this book - you should give it to them to read.

      Bar-none. Great resource for information about the effects of particular diets on your body.
    • 5/5
      Amazing book - a book every person should read (but won't) - a book every person should follow (but won't). I've read a hundred of these books and very very few impress me with their research...this was one of them.
    • 3/5
      recommended for: those ignorant about the health benefits of a plant based dietI have to say that I was not in the mood to read this book. In fact, I’d decided I wasn’t interested in reading it at all. When it first was published I’d heard good things about it so I bought it, but then heard some negative things and put it aside. However, my real world book club decided to read it as our October selection so I read it, but I was not enthusiastic.I was a bit irritable reading this as I felt as though I should be taking notes and memorizing material as I would while reading a textbook for a class, and I longed to be reading fiction instead. However, the book was better overall than I’d anticipated.First the bad: I was warned that this was not a “vegan” book but the authors completely lost me when on page 242 fish is in the category to minimize consumption, not eliminate it, after spending the rest of the book advocating eating 100% plant products. Well, fish are animals, not plants. the authors claim that for losing weight or maintaining an ideal weight calories don’t count so much if one is eating a whole foods plants only diet, and I know this to not be true.Also, reading this made me anxious. I haven’t taken that great care of myself for the last 5 ½ years, ever since I suffered knee injuries from running too much. Perhaps had I read this 5 ½ years ago, I’d have felt empowered rather than frightened. This is not the book’s fault of course, but it did diminish my ability to enjoy the reading experience.Now the good:I liked how he talked about his life and work; it kept the book from being too dry.There’s a lot of excellent nutritional information included, including the dangers of consuming animal protein (worth at least a star all by itself) and other lesser known nutritional knowledge. Also, there’s important information about the lack of nutritional education for medical professionals, the power of the food industry to keep Americans eating unhealthy foods, and other cogent arguments for recommending a 100% plant based diet. A lot of diseases and conditions are covered, with nutritional reasons for their occurrence and nutritional solutions for their improvement or cure.Not much of the information was new to me. The two areas that gave me something to think about were what was said about the role of genetics (less than I’ve always assumed) and information about supplements (I have to rethink what supplements I take, which will involve some more research on my part.)The research he’s conducted and evaluated was more sound than I expected, for which I was grateful.What a shame that immigrants to America so often give up their healthier national diet for America’s often inferior fare, which is something I’ve often thought.Most importantly, this book has gotten some people to become vegan or adopt a diet with many more plant products and fewer animal products, so I can’t really criticize it too strongly. So, I do hope that many people read this book. If everyone self educates with the information this book provides, at least they can make a truly informed consent about how they choose to eat.Oh, and I usually read books cover to cover but I did not read the References on pages 369-404.
    • 5/5
      This book totally changed my way of eating, it is even better than vegan, no processed food and fats, simple healthy food. And I feel great in many ways. Yes it is a little bit repetitive, but he goes through all the modern diseases and this told me more with every chapter how important it is to eat right to stay healthy and feel good without eating bland food and counting calories.
    • 4/5
      To use one of the author's favorite adjectives, the book was 'provocative.' I actually find this quite credible and I will change the way I eat, somewhat.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic and enlightening book. If diet and nutrition hadn't become such taboo topics lately, I'd be sending copies to everyone I care about. It's occasioned my own transition to a vegetarian diet.
    • 5/5
      A very well written book! Very informative and backs up what he's researched very well. Although he never actually studies a 100% vegetarian or vegan diet he does imply that going 100% plant would be more beneficial to us all and makes it clear in his book allowing the reader to make his/her own decisions. This should be required reading for all!
    • 5/5
      The best nutrition book I've read. Written by a scientifically credible person with thorough annotation of studies and facts. Makes one examine their diet and look at the long term health implications of eating various food types. Convincing argument that statistically eating a whole foods plant diet is far better for the average person's health and longevity.
    • 5/5
      Although the title would lead one to believe that the eponymous China Study is the focus of this book, it is not. But the less than ideal title aside, this book is full of hard (if sometimes controversial) information based on multiple scientific studies. If you have friends who cannot be convinced to even consider vegetarianism or veganism for environmental, ethical or economic reasons, but who may possibly be swayed by scientific evidence pointing to negative impacts of animal food eating on their own health, then this is THE book to recommend. It makes very little mention of environmentalism, ethics, animal rights etc. Part of its strength lies in its recommendation to (severely) limit animal-based foods rather than outright abstention. This is the type of diet more likely to be followed by someone not motivated by ethical considerations anyway.It also makes a good case for why studies like the ones cited within are rarely undertaken and why the results gleaned from them are mired in controversy when they actually do happen. This man has seen from the inside the politics of food production, the coziness between the food industries and government bodies charged with regulating them, It does have a few problems with admittdly unsubstantiated conclusions (mainly those involving casein), but the ones that are substantiated (and published in peer-reviewed journals) present a very strong case without the potentially flawed ones.Vegetarians and vegans will love it because it will bolster their resolve. Everyone else needs to read it because this is the information that your doctor will just never tell you, probably because he or she was never taught it.
    • 2/5
      Its a bit hard to write a review of this book because I am not sure where to start. The title would be the best place, but that is where the greatest flaw lies. The title of the book talks about the China Study, unfortunately very little coverage is given to the actual study except to say how it was conducted and a brief review of the results. The rest of the book is filled with aggressive arguments for the reader to become vegetarian, moaning about the current state of nutrition, and talking about how great the author thought he was by receiving multiple grants. The argument for the conversion to vegetarianism dominated the majority of the available pages. The author cited journals but often used older journals and drew some quick conclusions. While its true that there were some good points in the book, I would suggest reading a condensed version on Wikipedia. That way you can learn about the research without having to hear the author talk about his friends and how great of a job he did in the oft mentioned but rarely discussed China Study.
    • 5/5
      Great to read a book and see scientific evidence on why eating vegan is the best choice for your body-loved it.
    • 4/5
      This book explains the results and the research behind the author's study of health and nutrition. With so much information available, most of it conflicting, it's difficult for the average person to decide what is really the right choice. Campbell describes how the information came about, what is important and why it is important. The recommendation: a plant-based. Not a new idea, but more convincing with the necessary detail. I have to admit that I skimmed some of this scientifically dense book. Not everyone wants this level of detail, but I found it interesting, informative and it made good sense.
    • 5/5
      Nutrition, Nutritionally induced Deseases, and Diet and Health.
    • 4/5
      This is not a diet book, yet a book about nutrition and the effects the typical western (American) diet has on our health. The author gives insightful information on how altering your diet to reflect a plant based diet can change your life.
    • 2/5
      Interesting but the science is not all that convincing. Eat more plant material for better health - advice we should all know and follow.
    • 5/5
      This is very different from most books promoting vegetarian or vegan diets for health reasons. First, he is a scientist and understands the science (these days, these two things are not synonymous). Second, he also understands the social factors that are pushing science over the edge into a different discipline, a discipline which exists to support commodities and their sales value. The story of how he got started in this field, by researching the effect of protein on cancer, was quite intriguing.
    • 2/5
      This book was reference by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore's Dilemma, I read it to learn more about the subject of healthy eating. Whilst the sections about the China Study itself are interesting, these are wrapped up in a narrative which spends too much time justifying itself. When the author then starts making a case for vegetarianism it descends into a tone too preachy and frankly whiny for me. In short, Michael Pollan is a much better read.
    • 5/5
      I felt this was a wonderful, lifechanging book that every one should read.Dr. Campbell has the best, long term, peer reviewed study on nutrition out there. I'm sure some people don't want to hear that your diet is the most important component of your health and that it's up to you and not your doctor to take care of yourself, but it's true. You have the choice to eat a healthful diet and maintain optimal health or eat the standard American diet and merely hide the symtoms of a greater underlying problem with drugs. It's up to you. If you choose to take your life into your own hands this book will be an excellent resource.I think people that won't like it are likely people who don't want to change what they are currently doing because the research is there.
    • 5/5
      T. Colin Campbell’s career-long study of nutrition has produced a simple assertion backed up by empirical evidence: that a diet featuring animal protein and fat is harmful to human health – the best action you can take in order to have long-term health is to eat a plant-based diet. But don’t think this statement capture the full import of the book. “The China Study” is well worth reading from cover to cover. Along the way, Campbell has many insightful thing to say about human nutrition, the nature of scientific investigation, and the depredations caused by scientific reductionism. Towards the end, he asks the following disturbing questions:“How did we get to a place where the healers of our society, our doctors, know little, if anyting, about nutrition; where our medical institutions denigrate the subject; where using prescription drugs and going to hospitals is the third leading cause of death? How did we get to place where advocating a plant-based diet can jeopardize a professional career, where scientists spend more time mastering nature than respecting it? How did we get to a place where the companies that profit from out sickness are the ones telling us how to be healthy; where the companies that profit from our food choices are the ones telling us what to eat; where the public’s hard-earned money is being spent by the government to boost the drug industry’s profits; and where there is more distrust than trust of our governments policies on foods, drugs and health?Dr. Campbell is not simply a writer or journalist, he is a distinguished professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. This is a very important book for everyone to read, and it could have a major impact on your life.
    • 5/5
      Everyone needs to read this book!

      One of my favorite quotes:

      "There are powerful, influential and enormously wealthy industries that stand to lose a vast amount of money if Americans start shifting to a plant-based diet. Their financial health depends on controlling what the public knows about nutrition and health. Like any good business enterprise these industries do everything in their power to protect their profits and their shareholders."
    • 5/5
      By far the best and most scientific book I have read about nutrition.
    • 5/5
      Synopsis: One of the most comprehensive studies on nutrition. Dr. Campbell originally started his research from the opinion of someone who grew up on a dairy farm, hoping to promote the effects of a diet high in (animal-based) protein and dairy. What he finds astonishes him. All his research undertakings quickly point to one thing: that an animal-based diet along with dairy is the cause of a significant amount of "Western" diseases (e.g. obesity, heart disease, cancer).This book goes into the science and research behind why a plant-based diet can not only prevent, but also cure the majority of Western diseases.My Opinion: As a vegetarian (close to vegan) and already having done quite a bit of reading of reading on the topic, I was concerned that there would be nothing new to me in this book. This was not the case! I learnt a lot as this book goes into quite a bit of depth and provided a scientific analysis into what I already know.Already having a good idea about the negative effects of dairy ('casein') during the first few chapters I felt slightly impatient waiting for the author to differentiate between dairy and plant-based proteins.There is a lot of correlation between diseases (specifically cancer) that can be reduced by consuming a plant-based diet. One of the most common beliefs is that dairy consumption is good for bone health, whereas this is not the case: "These researchers explained that animal-protein, unlike plant-protein, increases the acid load in the body. An increased acid load means that our blood and tissues become more acidic. The body does not like this acidic environment and begins to fight it. In order to neutralise the acid, the body uses calcium, which acts as a very effective base. This calcium, however, must come from somewhere. It ends up being pulled from the bones, and the calcium loss weakens them, putting them at greater risk for fracture... We also know that animal protein is more effective than plant protein at increasing the metabolic acid load in the body."Wow! About two-thirds of the way through the book, politics came out. It's a war on food in one of the wealthiest countries! "While I was getting the China Study off the ground, I learned of a committee of seven prominent research scientists who had been retained by the animal-based foods industry (the National Dairy Council and the American Meat Institute) to keep tabs on any research projects in the U.S. likely to cause harm to their industry." This is evidence of propaganda at its finest and emphasises that the meat and dairy industry only has one thing in mind: profit, not health. "Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits." The science (emphasis on science - not make-believe) is right in front of us, yet many people are choosing to ignore because (and this is my opinion) they are scared and lazy to make the necessary changes. With half a million Americans having a health problem that requires taking a prescription drug every week, and over 100 million having high cholesterol (and this is at the publication date which, I am sure you can agree with me would have increased rather than decreased) I can only hope that more people pick this up and make the right change to a plant-based diet.
    • 4/5
      There's A LOT of statistics and research data in this book. Sometimes it can read like a "just the facts" one after the other after the other after the other narrative. That style may prove overwhelming for those new to the concept of a whole foods, plant-based lifestyle. On the other hand, for those who have read widely on the subject **or** watched numerous documentaries - for and against - the subject, there's a small amount of new information (based on the data the authors had at time of publication). The sheer volume of their research is astounding and it boggles my mind that people still fight and argue against these findings. I used to think zealots came mostly in the religious or political variety, but good gosh, talk with someone about the benefits of eating less (just less, not zero) meat and/or refined sugar and you'd think you just asked them to burn a bible or give up their gun. Humans are odd (and fascinating) creatures.4 stars
    • 5/5
      Fascinating study on how we should be eating.
    • 4/5
      What Is the China Study?: The actual China Study actually makes up only a small part of this book, although the implications of the study permeate everything else in it. This is how Campbell explains the China Study: In the 1970s the Premier Chou of China initiated a vast survey to collect information on cancer in the country. Involving 650,000 people, it is considered the most ambitious biomedical research project ever undertaken. This study showed that types of cancers were localized. Back in the US, Campbell works with a leading Chinese scientist, and fast forward . . . their team gathers 8,000 statistically significant associations between lifestyle, diet, and disease.The Rest of the Book: Fast forward some more and Campbell concludes that the diseases of affluence (colon, lung, breast, stomach cancers, etc., diabetes, coronary heart disease) are caused by the Western diet, specifically, linked to animal protein. From the study, the Chinese with the lowest rates of these diseases ate a plant-based diet. Based on his many years of research on diet, Campbell advises a vegan diet of whole foods (one can eat an unhealthy vegan diet too—white flour, sugar, processed foods). This reminds me of Michael Pollan’s advice: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants” (although Pollan is not vegan)Why I Read This Now : Last autumn, my husband and I met with a friend and her husband for dinner. He had recently dropped 40 lbs over a few months, and could not stop talking about the China Study and how much better he felt. He was raised on a farm in Alberta and played semi-pro ball for years—as close to a “good ol’ boy” as you’re going to find in Canada. We found his finding religion (veganism) rather amusing. He harassed my husband to read the book, and Mr Skeptical was surprised at how credible it actually was, so I had to read it too.I actually didn’t find that much new in it though—over the past 30 years I’ve read a lot about nutrition. For a time I followed the Pritikin program, which is very similar (except Pritikin names the culprit to be fat instead of animal protein). That wasn’t an easy program to follow, but wow did I feel fabulous! I’ve always wanted to return to it. There is also an extensive section on science, the food industry, consumerism, and government that is important, but again, not new as I’ve read about these problems elsewhere (most recently in Marion Nestle What to Eat). After several hours of hearing him preach about the China Study, I turned to his wife and asked her what she thought, and she rolled her eyes and said, “I’ve always had healthy eating habits.” Exactly.Credibility: Campbell is a biochemist specializing in nutrition. He has written over 300 research papers on the subject. His list of credentials and experience is too long to list here, but I have to say that I can’t remember reading a book by an author with so bona fide a track record in his or her field. I did some searching on the internet, and came across a few claims that this study has been “debunked,” but none of the links had an iota of the credibility that he has. Also, his findings are not in the interests of the gajillion dollar a year food industry, so I can see that he attracts naysayers who find him threatening. Put it this way: What’s the downside of following his dietary recommendations?Recommended for: If you too have read a lot about nutrition, this isn’t going to surprise you all that much. If reading about nutrition is a new thing for you, or you’re concerned about diseases of affluence, this may be exactly what you need. Campbell writes in a conversational way that makes all the science understandable, so you don’t need a biology degree to read this book.

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    • 1/5
      There are a lot of claims in this book and virtually no evidence of said same. After I hit upon several claims that just didn't sound right I did a bit of journal research. Turns out that this "study" has been hauled over the coals for the rubbish it is. No wonder it is a book rather than a peer reviewed journal paper.

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    • 2/5
      A lot of data with very few tangible suggestions or examples of the kinds of diets they were studying.

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    • 5/5
      This book really is comprehensive and makes a no-brainer argument for not eating animal products and adopting a whole food, plant-based diet. I'm glad I was already vegan before I read it or I'm sure I would have been freaked out. This should be required reading for anyone working in the medical field and anyone who cares about their health.
    • 3/5
      Some interesting research, showing the potential dangers of cow's milk products and other animal proteins. However the author was clearly writing from a biased (vegan/animal rights) perspective, and does not always make reasonable conclusions from the data. Take with a large grain of salt, and read critiques of this book before taking the principles on board too strongly. Rather detailed and tedious in places, too.

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