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|  | Authors: T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II
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 Even better than I thought after reading other reviews October 2, 2009
Luis Gutierrez
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
In many senses this book was even better than I thought after reading other reviews.
On the plus side: It's very clear and carefully written with the general public in mind; and it is adequate for people familiar with the subject as well. It demonstrates clearly and solidly why we need to abandon the animal based diet and provides hard data by comparing full dietary habits in the western economically developed countries against full dietary habits in underdeveloped countires like asia. It cites a lot of references to the supporting evidence and studies. It also makes the case clear as why the nutrion suplement approach, the isolated nutritient views, the isolated concerns for fat, and the isolated concerns for carbohydrates are flawed.
On the flip side: Since so many diseases turn out to be correleated to nutrition and diet, I found myself eager to get even more data and explanations inside this book, but space isn't enough and it would have required a thousand pages; so the authors provide only the leads for the rest of the evidence. You will need to search for the references to read further. As a result, this book might look superficial to doctors, nutrionists, scientists or people already knowledgable in this subject.
You'll love this book: If you are open-minded, if you are looking for ways to improve your health in the long term, if you are looking to understand nutrition in society, if you are willing to make drastic changes in your diet to help yourself.
You'll hate this book: If you're not willing to give up your dietary habits, if you believe that what has been taught to you must be right, if you're looking for simplistic explanations on diet effects on health, if you're looking for direct and isolated causes for particular diseases, if you're just looking for specific diet tips to mitigate an affection.
Regarding delivery but unrelated to the rate I picked, I had to wait two full months for this book compared to a second book that arrived in just 10 days. The tracking number provided is pretty useless on standard international shipments as it can't be used to query the local carrier in Mexico. I hope this is improved in the future.
 Campbell Misrepresents the Data of the real China Study October 1, 2009
Karen Vaughan (Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY USA)
29 out of 39 found this review helpful
Colin Campbell is so intent on promoting a vegan data that he misrepresents the data in the real China Study and cherry picks anti-animal food data. For instance, he rightly cites the link between milk and autoimmune disease but fails to mention that gluten, from wheat and related grains, is at least as important a cause. He writes of the association between casein, a milk protein, with cancer, but fails to mention that whey and butterfat are protective against cancer, and in milk you get all of them. He makes completely false statements like folate not being in meat when organ meats are much higher in folate than any plant source according to the USDA. He assumes nutrient consistency with the US without actually measuring it, despite the fact that soil nutrients and species differences have a huge effect on nutrition.
On cancer, he uses this data from the real China Study Mortality, Biochemistry, Diet and Lifestyle in Rural China: Geographic Study of the Characteristics of 69 Counties in Mainland China and 16 Areas in Taiwan and claims it shows you shouldn't eat animal protein, but in fact it shows just the opposite. The higher the positive number, the more the cancer association. The negative numbers show that a food source, like fats (lipids) actually protect against cancer. (Yes, mildly lowers the risk.)
Associations of Selected Variables with Mortality for All Cancers in the China Study Total Protein +12%
Animal Protein +3%
Fish Protein +7%
Plant Protein +12%
Total Lipids -6%
Carbohydrates +23%
Total Calories +16%
Fat % Calories -17%
Fiber +21%
Fat (questionnaire) -29%*
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(Data taken from the original monograph of the China Study.)
Sugar, soluble carbohydrates, and fiber all have correlations with cancer mortality about seven times the magnitude of that with animal protein, and total fat and fat as a percentage of calories were both negatively correlated with cancer mortality. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't eat protein, because the correlation of eating all food with cancer is +100%, but chances are the higher fat and protein diet will be safer than a high carbohydrate diet.
Why do I say "chances are"? A correlation is only as good as the data it collects. In China, people wealthy enough to have animal protein are also more likely to eat sugar, processed foods, high fructose corn syrup, to lower vegetable intake and to be able to drive instead of bicycle. They are also more likely to live in the heavily polluted urban centers. This information was not collected, and may actually be causal as opposed to be merely correlated.
The only questions in the China study about protein consumption were 'how many times a month do you eat fish/meat/eggs/dairy?' There were no questions about which of those foods you eat. For instance, oysters are so important a source of zinc, that native New Guinea tribesmen who live in the interior and have access to meat, insist on going through a war zone to get the oysters once a month. Or they arrange an exchange of mountain fruits for oysters with the very tribes they are fighting. But there were no questions that differentiated fish, which have very different profiles from shellfish.
The same China study (the real one, not this book) also shows living in a hot climate is highly correlated with low cancer. This exceeds the effect of animal protein by over 700% It also show that homemade cigarettes and alcohol are negatively correlated with cancer, but not at a significant level. But he isn't mentioning that.
He misrepresents any number of studies that he cites, taking one described by the researcher as "high protein and low fat" and labels it as low protein. He shows an appalling lack of knowledge in the constituents of meats. He suggests Alzheimers can be prevented by a vegan diet, ignoring the vast literature on the preventative aspects of DHA which is only found in animals and marine plankton. His ideology prevents an honest evaluation of the data.
A pity that the original study is not affordable to the average reader because Campbell is a poor representative of the data and what it means.
Everyone should read. September 28, 2009
Susan Randle Witt (Dallas, Texas United States)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a great book full of information based on many years of research. I think everyone who is interested in their health should read this book. I down loaded it on my Kindle and was not able to read the graphs and charts on the Kindle so I am purchasing the book to have in my library.
Great book! September 26, 2009
Nutritionista (San Diego)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
A must read for anyone with questions or concerns about their future health. What we fail to teach about nutrition is the profound effect the foods we eat have on our body and how we can increase our resistance to disease. This book makes you rethink the possibilities of greater health and longevity.
An Important Book September 26, 2009
Martin Purvis
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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