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| The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health | 
 enlarge | Authors: T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell Ii
Creators: John Robbins, Howard Lyman
Publisher: Benbella Books
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Customer Ratings:  485 comments
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st BenBella Books Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 417
Shipping Weight (pounds): 1.3
Dimensions (inch): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1932100660
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9781932100662
Publication Date: June 1, 2006
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 Excellent book but..... September 19, 2005
9 out of 28 found this comment useful.
I found this book to be very informative, thorough and easy to follow, however, I was looking for a book on how to eat healthier and was unaware till chapter 1 that this book is simply a how to become a vegetarian for life book so if that is not your goal, you may want to keep searching. I just love steak too much to give it up.
The China Study September 11, 2005
18 out of 22 found this comment useful.
The China study is the most life-changing book I have ever read. Colin Campbell clearly and concisely presents rock solid evidence guaranteed to change your mind about the way you eat and the way you view your health.
Do yourself a favor and read this book. It contains no diet plans or recipes. It does contain highly readable, extremely interesting insights of one of the nation's top scientists, his work with humans and animals, and his astonishing discoveries.
You should order this book, read it immediately, and send everyone you care about a copy as well.
Clearing up the Nutrition Myths September 9, 2005
12 out of 16 found this comment useful.
This book is truely an excellent work. Dr. Campbell has done more studies than anyone else then I know of. He doesn't spin anything, and presents the scientific results in a way that untrained people can understand. If you want to get healty then read this book and discover why a lot of us suffer needlessly and apply his whole-food plant based diet to your life.
Too important to ignore. September 7, 2005
28 out of 33 found this comment useful.
This book, among other sources of information, was instrumental in getting my husband and me to dramatically change our eating habits. After only a month, I've already noticed drastic differences in the way I feel. We're not completely vegan, nor are we completely vegetarian, but we have steadily whittled down the number of animal proteins in our diet. After reading the book and experiencing the benefits, I was astonished to see all the negative reviews written about it. Especially the ones that attack the model of the study and the statistics involved. My husband has his Masters and is currently pursuing his PhD in statistics. He's also a consultant on experimental design and helps researchers get their statistics right. When he read this book and looked at the statistics therein, he did find some minor mistakes here and there, but none so egregious that it would invalidate the findings.
I think if you look hard enough at any scientific experiment, you're bound to find minor chinks in it. You cannot design a perfect study because there will always be things you didn't anticipate or things you didn't account for. That said, the fact that this study didn't include certain factors doesn't negate its findings. Anyway, I think most of the critics are the ones who refuse to make a lifestyle change - much like a smoker refusing to believe all the research pointing to the hazards of smoking. They are desperate for any tid-bit of information that might say their current habits are fine and that the researchers have no idea what they are talking about. No matter how much criticism this book gets, you still cannot deny that this is the largest, most in-depth epidemiological study to date on nutrition and its direct relationship to health. You cannot ignore the importance of it.
 China Study August 29, 2005
37 out of 67 found this comment useful.
The thesis of this book is that a strict vegeterian diet produces a lower rate of cancer and heart disease based on research supervised by the author and studies with rodents who were fed various diets and tested for cancer risk using certain specific models of cancer.
A good deal of the work seems credible, however, the author fails to review other researchers who have shown, for example, that diets that include fish without meat, also reduce cardiovascular disease. Further, the study fails to account for possible genetic variables underlying the Oriental population and its health risks; moreover, the China diet although a healthy one, is not one that has been specifically studied in the United States. Although the results are provocative, they are not fully convincing. We don't really know what the Chinese died of during the study, probably infectious diseases among others, and if these diseases of several decades ago were excluded, based on modern medicine, I suspect that the results would be far less dramatic. In summary, the author, a respected scientist, and his son, a writer, have tried to convert some research into the latest diet book, and regrettably, they fail to disclose the fundamental weaknesses of the approach.
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