Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness. — 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“Despite the potential of diet and disease prevention, most of the attention given to heart disease has been on mechanical and chemical… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“this information has resurfaced in the past two decades, the fight against the status quo has been heating up again. A few… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“We’ve discovered that cow’s milk protein at reasonable levels of intake markedly promotes experimental cancer growth, which is outside of the nutrition… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“I have heard one doctor call high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets “make-yourself-sick” diets, and I think that’s an appropriate moniker. You can also… — 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… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Casein, which makes up 87% of cow’s milk protein, promoted all stages of the cancer process. What type of protein did not… — 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
“The health care establishment is structured to profit from chemical and surgical intervention. Diet still takes the back seat to drugs and… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Eating should be an enjoyable and worry-free experience, and shouldn’t rely on deprivation. Keeping it simple is essential if we are to… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“Focusing on individual nutrients, their identities, their contents in food, their tissue concentrations, and their biological mechanisms, is like using math and… — 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
“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
“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
“CHART 11.2: NUTRIENT COMPOSITION OF PLANT AND ANIMAL-BASED FOODS (PER 500 CALORIES OF ENERGY) Nutrient Plant-Based Foods* Animal-Based Foods** Cholesterol (mg) —… — 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
“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
“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
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
We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA. — 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share
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
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
Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share
“We’ve discovered that cow’s milk protein at reasonable levels of intake markedly promotes experimental cancer growth, which is outside of the nutrition paradigm. We’ve… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share
“The enjoyment of life, especially the second half of life, is greatly compromised if we can’t see, if we can’t think, if our kidneys… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share
