12 Steps to Whole Foods

GreenSmoothieGirl Resource Library
Dr. Colin Campbell: The China Study
This is the largest and most comprehensive nutrition study in history, conducted jointly by Oxford and Cornell
universities. It offers the most empirical evidence ever gathered validating a plant-based diet.
Colin Campbell is a professor of nutrition at Cornell University and has sat on the highest nutrition governing
boards in the U.S. He is the son of a cattle rancher and believed, in his early nutrition research, that he would
find lack of protein to be the cause of childhood liver cancer in the Philippines.
He found just the opposite: the wealthier children with good access to meat/milk were dying of liver cancer, not
the poor children who could afford only plant food. Time and again, Campbell and many other researchers
discovered the same results: that in animals and humans, high consumption of animal protein causes all the
modern Western diseases, including cancer, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and much more.
The rodent studies are fascinating: two groups of mice are put on 5% animal protein pellets (casein, from milk)
and 20% animal protein pellets, respectively. That parallels an almost-vegan diet versus the typical American
diet. At the typical rodent life span, the 5% group were lean and healthy and the 20% group were full of
cancerous tumors and many were dead (and all would die prematurely).
Even more fascinating is how the researchers could switch the groups’ diets. Lean, healthy rodents develop
tumors and die when placed on the 20% animal protein diet, and formerly cancerous rodents lose weight,
tumors are eliminated, and they live and thrive when placed on the 5% animal protein diet. These studies were
duplicated, with the same results, by other researchers all over the globe.
Campbell went on to conduct the largest, most longitudinal, most comprehensive nutrition study in human
beings in history, yielding hundreds of statistically significant correlations. He has been studying 360,000
people in China for about 30 years now. Whether or not you completely eliminate animal foods from your diet,
this book is so compelling that you will be motivated to make a commitment to a plant-based diet and share the
message with others.
William Dufty: The Sugar Blues
This book was written in the 1950s in a very provocative and engaging style. This seminal book is your chance
to get up the motivation to kick the sugar habit. As many nutrition authors have stated, sugar is killing us. And
it’s more addictive than cocaine. (I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know, am I?) Even more
fascinating is Dufty’s claim that the sugar industry sabotaged his efforts to publish his expose.
Sally Fallon: Nourishing Traditions
This book provides a massive amount of great information and tons of recipes (newtrendspublishing.com, 877-
707-1776). I mostly disagree with the author about meat and dairy (which she embraces, in fermented and
organic forms), in light of The China Study’s implications as well as a large body of other research
documenting the virtues of avoiding animal proteins. But I agree with everything else she promotes, and the
book is worth owning just for the fermented foods information and recipes, where Fallon is the reigning
authority.
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