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I chanced to read the The China Study by Dr,Campbell co-authored with his son.

Dr.Campbell is reputed to be one of the authorities on Dieting.

I came across the following critique by his detractors, who also advance their views.

My observation is that these detractors of Dr.Campbell have nothing to say about the evidence submitted by Dr.Campbell on the behavior of rats which were given low as well high protein Diet.

Te result was the rats that were fed low protein were more active, exercised more and were healthier than the ones that were given high protein Diet.

Again Dr.Campbell submits  a study where he proves that meat-eating triggers the chemicals that set Cancer going.

There is no comment on this by the critics of Dr.Campbell.

My observation based on people, though I did not do a study, is that people who eat vegetarian  food are less prone to Cancer and other debilitating diseases .

And recent Studies have proved that Cholesterol  is in no way connected to Heart attack!(read my blog on this in Health)

I suggest  reading Dr.Campbell’s Book The China Study, which is very informative.

“Read Dr. Campbell’s response to this review and my response to Dr. Campbell. See also Denise Minger’s excellent critique of The China Study and my my critical review of Dr. Campbell’s animal research.

“Eating foods that contain any cholesterol above 0 mg is unhealthy.” — T. Colin Campbell, The China Study

It was growing up on one of the many dairy farms of the rural American landscape, long before the China Study had taken place, and yet longer before the book was written, that the young T. Colin Campbell formed the views that would shape the early portion of his career.

Cow’s milk, “Nature’s most perfect food,” was central to the existence of his family and community. Most of the food that Campbell’s family ate they produced themselves. Campbell milked cows from the age of five through his college years. He studied animal nutrition at Cornell, and did his PhD research on ways to make cows and sheep grow faster so the American food supply could be pumped up with more and more protein.¹

Fast forward to the present. Campbell is now on the advisory board of the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine,² which describes itself as “a nonprofit organization that promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research,”³ but whose opposition to the use of animal foods reflects its ties to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and other animal rights groups.⁴

Campbell’s new book The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health hit shelves in January 2005 and details the turning points in his post-graduate research that led him to become a famed opponent of animal foods and an advocate of the vegan diet.

It takes the reader on a tour through Campbell’s early animal experiments, which he interpreted to implicate animal protein as a primary cause of cancer, through the massive epidemiological study after which the book was named.

Only 39 of 350 pages are actually devoted to the China Study. The bold statement on page 132 that “eating foods that contain any cholesterol above 0 mg is unhealthy,”⁵ is drawn from a broad — and highly selective — pool of research. Yet chapter after chapter reveals a heavy bias and selectivity with which Campbell conducted, interpreted, and presents his research.

Dietary protein and Cancer.

The first strike against the pro-protein mantra Campbell had inherited from his nutritional forbears came while he was studying the relationship between aflatoxin (AF), a mold-related contaminant often found in peanut butter, and cancer in the Philippines.

Campbell was informed by a colleague that, although the areas with the highest consumption of peanut butter had the highest incidence of liver cancer, it was the children of the “best-fed families,” who consumed the most protein, who were getting liver cancer.

Whether the best-fed Pilipino families ate the many staples of modern affluent diets like refined breads and sugars isn’t mentioned.⁶

This observation was corroborated by a study published in “an obscure medical journal,” that fed AF to two groups of rats, one consuming a 5% protein diet, one consuming a 20% protein diet, in which every rat in the latter group got liver cancer or its precursor lesions, and none in the former group got liver cancer or precursor lesions.⁷ Campbell went on to investigate the possible relationship between nutritional factors, including protein, and cancer, a study that proceeded for 19 years with NIH funding.⁸His conclusion was revolutionary and provocative: while chemical carcinogens may initiate the cancer process, dietary promoters and anti-promoters control the promotion of cancer foci,⁹ and it is nutritional factors, not chemical carcinogens, that are the ultimate deciding factors in the development of cancer.^10″

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