T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II: The China Study: 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: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health

Referred to as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in more than 2,500 counties across China and Taiwan, and conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on... (read more)

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“How good have you designed yourself to feel at age 75? Age 35? How long have you designed yourself to live? If you have the slightest interest in these kinds of questions, you can't miss this book.

I wasn't completely surprised by the conclusions of The China Study and unless you've been living under a rock, you probably won't be either. But still, there's always something shocking about the truth when it really comes home.

What really DID surprise me though, was the...”

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she said:

“This book really is comprehensive, the study's depth and breadth of sheer numbers,the scientific design of it's study - backed with validity and provable outcomes - is it's backbone. Since reading it, I have made fundamental changes in my diet, which I thought was quite healthy. (I ate whole foods, mostly organic, free range, loosly following FDA guidelines.)”

posted Friday, April 18 2008

john b said:

“This is a powerful book about eating to be healthy.”

posted Thursday, February 14 2008

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

by PhD, T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II