The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition

"[These] 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 New York Times

For more than 40 years, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Study, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. He has received more than 70 grant years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers. The China Study was the culmination of a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. A 1999 graduate of Cornell University and recipient of a medical degree in 2010, Thomas M. Campbell II, MD, is a writer, actor and five-time marathon runner.

Preface Foreword Introduction Part I: The China Study 1. Problems We Face, Solutions We Need 2. A House of Proteins 3. Turning Off Cancer 4. Lessons from China Part II: Diseases of Affluence 5. Broken Hearts 6. Obesity 7. Diabetes 8. Common Cancers: Breast, Prostate, Large Bowel (Colon and Rectal) 9. Autoimmune Diseases 10. Wide-Ranging Effects: Bone, Kidney, Eye and Brain Diseases Part III: The Good Nutrition Guide 11. Eating Right: Eight Principles of Food and Health 12. How to Eat Part IV: Why Havent You Heard This Before? 13. Science—The Dark Side 14. Scientific Reductionism 15. The “Science of Industry 16. Government: Is It for the People? 17. Big Medicine: Whose Health Are They Protecting? 18. Academia 19. Repeating Histories Appendix A. Q&A: Protein Effect in Experimental Rat Studies Appendix B. Experimental Design of the China Study Appendix C. The “Vitamin D Connection References