A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Foci development was almost entirely dependent on how much protein was consumed, regardless of how much aflatoxin was consumed!” — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Nutrition is not a mathematical equation in which two plus two is four. The food we put in our mouths doesn't control… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.” — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“In one study of ten countries,14 a higher consumption of calcium was associated with a higher—not lower—risk of bone fracture (Chart 10.3” — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis,… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“What you eat every day is a far more powerful determinant of your health than your DNA or most of the nasty… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“inescapable fact is that certain people are making an awful lot of money today selling foods that are unhealthy. They want you… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“The most significant finding of this experiment was this: foci developed only when the animals met or exceeded the amount of dietary… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“So how does the plant manage these complex reactions and protect against errant electrons and free radicals? It puts up a shield… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“China, we noticed that obese people simply did not exist, even though Chinese immigrants in Western countries do succumb to obesity. Now,… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Resounding acclaim for T. Colin Campbell and The China Study “Backed by well-documented, peer-reviewed studies and overwhelming statistics, the case for a… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“But if I tell them about dozens and dozens of studies showing that the countries with low rates of heart disease consume… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“The people who consumed the most lutein, a specific type of antioxidant, had one-half the rate of cataracts as the people who… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“The evidence cited here represents only an infinitesimally small fraction of the total number of interactions operating every moment in our bodies.… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Chapter three delineates the decades-long laboratory work we did with experimental animals, work that passed the requirements to be called “good science.”… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Americans consume more cow’s milk and its products per person than most populations in the world. So Americans should have wonderfully strong… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Luckily for us, the same good nutrition maximizes health at every stage of a disease. In humans, we have seen research findings… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Chart 4.4: Disease Groupings Observed in Rural China Disease of Affluence (Nutritional extravagance) Cancer (colon, lung, breast, leukemia, childhood brain, stomach, liver),… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“What made this project especially remarkable is that, among the many associations that are relevant to diet and disease, so many pointed… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“there is almost no direct relationship between the amount of a nutrient consumed at a meal and the amount that actually reaches… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Every kilogram of beef requires 100,000 liters of water to produce. By comparison, a kilogram of wheat requires just 900 liters, and… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“These findings—the contents of Part II of this book—show that heart disease, diabetes and obesity can be reversed by a healthy diet.” — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food,… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“In brief, the relationship between amount consumed and amount used for virtually all nutrients is not a linear relationship.” — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day.… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“You can acquiesce to all this, you can succumb to the junk food sellers, or you can find a healthier and more… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“These findings—the contents of Part II of this book—show that heart disease, diabetes and obesity can be reversed by a healthy diet.” — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have.” — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“The health care establishment is structured to profit from chemical and surgical intervention. Diet still takes the back seat to drugs and surgery. One… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Americans consume more cow’s milk and its products per person than most populations in the world. So Americans should have wonderfully strong bones, right?… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“you want to eat bacon and eggs for breakfast and then take cholesterol-lowering medication, that’s your right. But if you want to truly take… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“In one study of ten countries,14 a higher consumption of calcium was associated with a higher—not lower—risk of bone fracture (Chart 10.3” — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image