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Nutrition Against Disease and by Terry C. Newman, DVM
The China Study, initiated in the 1980’s, heralds the greatest medical breakthrough in the history of mankind! Sadly, it is clear the results of this study are not being acknowledged or acted upon by the medical community to any significant degree. The purpose of this paper is to present a brief synopsis of this life-altering study in the hopes of capturing the interest of health-minded individuals world-wide. The book, The China Study, by author T. Colin Campbell, based on a 1980’s study in China, is not an easy read; not because it is complicated, but because it contains a tremendous amount of research data. Click here for a printer friendly version of this report I vividly recall 40 years ago when the first warnings went out to the public regarding the hazards of tobacco usage. I was dismayed and discouraged by how long it took and how many lives had to be compromised or lost before the medical community acknowledged and made this information mainstream. Today, even with current education on this topic, it is not widely understood that people who smoke have precancerous cells in the linings of their respiratory tract. Clearly, public education on this topic needs to be stepped up! The health implications contained in The China Study are far more complex than the correlation between smoking tobacco and its deleterious effects on human health. Therefore, it is taking a very long time for this information to become mainstream in human medicine. In my opinion, the findings of The China Study carry significantly greater weight and ramifications than the findings related to tobacco usage. The findings in this study have the potential for minimizing and eliminating most of mankind’s chronic and debilitating diseases. Consequently, it is my passion and mission to widely disseminate this information so that all individuals can enjoy the potential of robust, vigorous health. The author of The China Study, T. Colin Campbell, was raised on a dairy farm. While studying to become a veterinarian at the Georgia University School of Veterinary Medicine, Campbell received a call from Cornell University asking him to transfer to Cornell to study nutrition against disease, all fees and tuition paid. Campbell accepted the offer and while at Cornell he went on to earn his PhD in Nutrition and Toxicology. His life story, coupled with his many achievements, make it clear, he is a highly acclaimed author and scientist. Several years after his graduation from Cornell, Campbell accepted an invitation from the Philippine government to help uncover the underlying cause and cure for a highly prevalent form of liver cancer being diagnosed in children in that country. After 10 years of research in the Philippines, Campbell and his research team were able to identify a new and previously unknown toxin, aflatoxin, responsible for liver cancer in the population. Sadly, due to the ubiquitous nature of this toxin, it was impossible to avoid in the common diet. Dr. Campbell was convinced a diet high in animal proteins (beef, pork, lamb, chicken, eggs, dairy and fish) would be key in preventing and reversing liver cancer in the malnourished Philippine children. This was the model he used to prove this hypothesis. However, contrary to his former belief that a high protein (animal based) diet was the greatest weapon against disease, he discovered, to his utter amazement, the greater the consumption of a high protein, animal-based diet, the greater the prevalence of cancer in human beings. Conversely, he discovered the much lower vegetable protein diet promoted greater health and less susceptibility to cancer and other debilitating diseases. These findings eventually revolutionized Campbell’s whole way of thinking. Concurrent with these findings, a study emerged out of India reporting similar findings in laboratory animals. These outcomes caused Dr. Campbell to design and conduct a much larger study confirming his remarkable findings. This study turned out to be the largest and most successful study in human history regarding the effects of a healthy lifestyle on human health. He returned to Cornell University, engaging the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Oxford University and several other academic institutions in his research project. The New York Times called it the “Grand Prix of Epidemiology.” The study eventually produced more than “eight-thousand statistically significant associations between various dietary factors and disease!” This study was called The China Study as it involved 60 different Chinese provinces. In this study many lifestyle factors were studied, including diet. The researchers also studied disease statistics and autopsies. The results of this broad-based study confirmed what Campbell had learned in the Philippines; the more animal protein in the diet the greater the incidence of disease and the more plant-based protein in the diet, the lower the incidence of disease. Interestingly, in The China Study it was noted that small spikes of specific cancers continued to surface in populations consuming a plant-based diet. Studies confirmed that in order to prevent cancer, it is necessary for individuals to consume a broad range of vegetables, thereby providing all the necessary phytonutrients to neutralize the effects of carcinogens. This part of The China Study highlights the importance of a varied “vegan” diet, which, in contrast to the “vegetarian diet,” eliminates meat, fish, eggs and dairy products. Subsequent to The China Study worldwide researchers have continued studies to expand and understand these findings. These findings confirm that an animal-protein based diet exacerbates the carcinogens resident in our bodies and a plant-based diet minimizes the effects of these carcinogens. Surprisingly, protein (casein) derived from dairy products has an even more deleterious effect on health than does meat-based, fat-containing protein. Significant findings by Dr. Neil Barnard, author of Reversing Diabetes illustrate the dramatic advantages of a vegan diet in eliminating type II Diabetes, a debilitating and difficult disease to prevent and treat. He discovered that diabetes can be prevented and reversed with a vegan diet and exercise. He has proven that individuals become resistant to insulin due to fat build-up inside cells, thus preventing insulin from being properly metabolized by the cell. By embracing a vegan diet individuals not only lose unwanted weight but are able to overcome insulin resistance. He has proven that a vegan diet effectively reverses Type II Diabetes. Dr. Dean Ornish, renowned cardiologist and author has proven that a vegetarian diet, coupled with exercise and stress reduction can reverse arteriosclerosis. John Robbins, author of Diet for New America and The Food Revolution has researched and documented the impact diet has on our health, our environment, on national and international economics, world hunger and much more. Dr. George Malkmus, author of God’s Way to Ultimate Health and director of the health ministry Hallelujah Acres in Shelby, North Carolina, cured himself of colon cancer through nutrition against disease and exercise. Dr. Malkmus has since gone on to have a world-wide ministry to literally thousands of individuals suffering from chronic and potentially fatal diseases. Dr. Lorraine Day cured herself of near-fatal breast cancer through nutrition against disease, exercise and a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Day is an internationally acclaimed orthopedic trauma surgeon and best-selling author who was for 15 years on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine as Associate Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics. She was also Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital and is recognized world-wide as an AIDS expert. Dr. Day’s videos and CD’s are highly educational, motivational and inspirational. Sadly, these exciting medical breakthroughs are largely being ignored or dismissed by the medical community resulting in a travesty of colossal proportions! By sharing this information in a brief synopsis I am hoping to capture the interest of individuals to help them make informed decisions about their health and lifestyles. I am also hoping this generation will be able to educate and model a healthy lifestyle for their family members and friends. I sincerely hope it will not take another 40 years for the medical profession to endorse these life-changing findings. If we change our diet today, hopefully the next generation will not have the same difficulty former generations have had, making these lifestyle changes. It is my hope and dream that the next generation will be raised on a vegan diet coupled with regular exercise from day one. If there was ever a time in history when these findings needed to be embraced, now is that time! The U.S. government is in the process of developing a plan for national health care reform of staggering proportions. Governments around the world are faced with similar challenges. Not only are these plans controversial, the costs associated with them are of mind-boggling proportions. Additionally, government-run health care transfers the burden of personal responsibility and accountability for one’s own health into the hands of governmental bureaucrats. Further, citizens from around the world whose countries have endorsed nationalized health care, testify to long waits and rationed health care. Now is the time to switch directions in our nation’s health care to embrace the realities of disease prevention by embracing the principles of Nutrition Against Disease! References:
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