T. Colin Campbell

Nutrition trumps genes.

— T. Colin Campbell

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

— T. Colin Campbell

“When we live in a system, we absorb a system and think in a system.”

— T. Colin Campbell

“Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have.”

— T. Colin Campbell

There’s only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.

— T. Colin Campbell

Everything in food works together to create health or disease.

— T. Colin Campbell

Protein during promotion trumps the carcinogen, regardless of initial exposure.

— T. Colin Campbell

No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.

— T. Colin Campbell

“CHART 14.3: FAT INTAKE AND BREAST CANCER MORTALITY”

— T. Colin Campbell

“This is what scientists and food activists at Yale University call a toxic food environment. It is the environment in which most…

— T. Colin Campbell

We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.

— T. Colin Campbell

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

“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

“Costs have so consistently outpaced inflation that we now spend one out of every seven dollars the economy produces on health care”

— T. Colin Campbell

“Foci development was almost entirely dependent on how much protein was consumed, regardless of how much aflatoxin was consumed!”

— T. Colin Campbell

Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

— T. Colin Campbell

“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

“Notice that a strict vegetarian diet is not necessarily the same thing as a WFPB diet. Some people become vegetarian only to…

— T. Colin Campbell

“It is a type of science originally advocated 2,400 years ago by the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, who said, “There are, in…

— T. Colin Campbell

Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible…

— T. Colin Campbell

“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

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

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

The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather…

— T. Colin Campbell

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

“Is it possible that chemical carcinogens, in general, do not cause cancer unless the nutritional conditions are “right”? Is it possible that,…

— T. Colin Campbell

“Scientists can argue philosophy all day long, but what really counts is evidence. This begs the question: What counts as evidence? What…

— T. Colin Campbell

“One group was given AF and then fed diets containing 20% protein. The second group was given the same level of AF…

— T. Colin Campbell

“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

“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

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

Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data…

— T. Colin Campbell

“we have shown in experimental animals that cancer growth can be turned on and off by nutrition, despite very strong genetic predisposition.…

— T. Colin Campbell

“Genetic medicine is the ultimate reductionist fantasy.”

— T. Colin Campbell

A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.

— T. Colin Campbell

When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

— T. Colin Campbell

Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

— T. Colin Campbell

“nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.”

— T. Colin Campbell

First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't.

— T. Colin Campbell

“started to see that none of the accepted “causes” of cancer, in the absence of a high-animal-protein diet, mattered that much. Not…

— T. Colin Campbell