Children on High-Protein Diets Most Likely to get Liver Cancer
From: Tim (timcall_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 01/26/05
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Date: 26 Jan 2005 11:18:58 -0800
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DR. T. COLIN CAMPBELL PUBLISHES NEW BOOK
TITLE: The China Study; The Most Comprehensive Study of
Nutrition Ever Conducted.
AUTHORS: T. Colin Campbell, PhD with Thomas M. Campbell II
PUBLISHER: BenBella Books, Dallas, Texas
FOREWORD: by John Robbins
HARDBACK EDITION, 417 Pages, $24.95
"The New York Times writes: '. . . findings from the most
comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the
relationship between diet and the risk of developing
disease are challenging much of American dietary dogma.'
"THE CHINA STUDY; INTRODUCTION"
"The PUBLIC'S HUNGER for nutrition information never
ceases to amaze me, even after devoting my entire life to
conducting experimental research into nutrition and health.
Diet books are perennial best-sellers. Almost every popular
magazine features nutrition advice, newspapers regularly
run articles and TV and radio programs constantly discuss
diet and health.
"Given the barrage of information, are you confident that
you know what you should be doing to improve your health? .
. . . My guess is that you're not really sure of the
answers . . . . Even though information and opinions are
plentiful, VERY FEW PEOPLE TRULY KNOW WHAT THEY SHOULD BE
DOING TO IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH.
"This isn't because the research hasn't been done. It has.
We know an enormous amount about the links between
nutrition and health. But the real science has been buried
beneath a clutter of irrelevant or even harmful
information-junk science, fad diets and food industry
propaganda. I want to change that. I want to give you a new
framework for understanding nutrition and health, a
framework that eliminates confusion, prevents and treats
disease and allows you to live a more fulfilling life.
"I have been 'in the system' for almost fifty years, at
the very highest levels, designing and directing large
research projects, deciding which research gets funded and
translating massive amounts of scientific research into
national expert panel reports. After a long career in
research and policy making, I now understand why Americans
are so confused. As a taxpayer who foots the bill for
research and health policy in America, you deserve to know
that many of the common notions you have been told about
food, health and disease are wrong.
"I propose to do nothing less than redefine what we think
of as good nutrition. The provocative results of my four
decades of biomedical research, including the findings from
a twenty-seven year laboratory program prove that eating
right can save your life. I will not ask you to believe
conclusions based on my personal observations, as some
popular authors do. There are over 750 references in this
book, and the vast majority of them are primary sources of
information, including hundreds of scientific publications
from other researchers that point the way to less cancer,
less heart disease, fewer strokes, less obesity, less
diabetes, less autoimmune disease, less osteoporosis, less
Alzheimer's, less kidney stones, and less blindness.
"Some of the findings, published in the most reputable
scientific journals, show that:
* Dietary change can enable diabetics to go off their
medication.
* Heart disease can be reversed with diet alone.
* Breast cancer is related to levels of female hormones in
the blood, which is determined by the food we eat.
* Consuming dairy foods can increase the risk of prostate
cancer.
* Antioxidants, found in fruits and vegetables, are linked
to better mental performance in old age.
* Type I diabetes, one of the most devastating diseases
that can befall a child, is convincingly linked to infant
feeding practices.
"These findings demonstrate that a good diet is the most
powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness. An
understanding of this scientific evidence is not only
important for improving health: it also has profound
implications for our entire society. We MUST know why
misinformation dominates our society and why we are grossly
mistaken in how we investigate diet and disease, how we
promote health and how we treat illness.
"By any number of measures, America's health is failing.
We spend far more, per capita, on health care than any
other society in the world, and yet two thirds of Americans
are overweight, and over 15 million Americans have
diabetes, a number that has been rising rapidly. We fall
prey to heart disease as often as we did thirty years ago,
and the War on Cancer, launched in the 1970s, has been a
miserable failure. Half of Americans have a health problem
that requires taking a prescription drug every week, and
over 100 million Americans have high cholesterol.
"To make matters worse, we are leading our youth down a
path of disease earlier and earlier in their lives. One
third of the young people in this country are overweight or
at risk of becoming overweight. Increasingly, they fall
prey to a form of diabetes that used to be seen only in
adults, and these young people now take more prescription
drugs than ever before. These issues all come down to three
things: BREAKFAST, LUNCH, and DINNER!
"More than forty years ago, at the beginning of my career,
I would have never guessed that food is so closely related
to health problems. For years I never gave much thought to
which foods were best to eat. I just ate what everyone else
did: what I was told was good food. We all eat what is
tasty or what is convenient or what our parents taught us
to prefer. Most of us live within cultural boundaries that
define our food preferences and habits. So it was with me.
I was raised on a dairy farm where milk was central to our
existence. We were told in school that cow's milk made
strong, healthy bones and teeth. It was Nature's perfect
food. On our farm, we produced most of our food in the
garden or in the livestock pastures.
"I was the first in my family to go to college. I studied
pre-veterinary medicine at Penn State and then attended
veterinary school at the University of Georgia for a year
and then Cornell University beckoned with scholarship money
for me to do graduate research in 'animal nutrition' . . .
. There I did a master's degree. . . . My Ph.D. research at
Cornell was devoted to finding better ways to make cows and
sheep grow faster. I was attempting to improve on our
ability to produce animal protein, the cornerstone of what
I was told was 'good nutrition.'
"I was on a trail to promote better health by advocating
the consumption of more meat, milk and eggs. It was an
obvious sequel to my own life on the farm and I was happy
to believe that the American diet was the best in the
world. Through these formative years, I encountered a
recurring theme: we are supposedly eating the right foods,
especially plenty of high-quality animal protein. . . .
"After leaving MIT and taking a faculty position at
Virginia Tech, I began coordinating technical assistance
for a nationwide project in the Philippines working with
malnourished children . . . . The aim of these efforts in
the Philippines was simple: make sure that children were
getting as much protein as possible. It was widely thought
that much of the childhood malnutrition in the world was
caused by a lack of protein, especially from animal-based
foods. Universities and governments around the world were
working to alleviate a perceived 'protein gap' in the
developing world.
"In this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret.
CHILDREN WHO ATE THE HIGHEST-PROTEIN DIETS WERE THE ONES
MOST LIKELY TO GET LIVER CANCER! They were the children of
the wealthiest families.
"This information countered everything I had been taught.
It was heretical to say that protein wasn't healthy, let
alone say it promoted cancer. It was a defining moment in
my career. Investigating such a provocative question so
early in my career was not a very wise choice. Questioning
protein and animal-based foods in general ran the risk of
my being labeled a heretic, even if it passed the test of
'good science.' . . . "
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