The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health

by T. Colin Campbell

HERE IN AMERICA, we are affluent, and we die certain deaths because of it. We eat like feasting kings and queens every day of the week, and it kills us.

Today almost no indication of the dietary connection to these diseases has reached public awareness. The Web site of the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation, for example, reads, “There is no credible evidence that MS is due to poor diet or dietary deficiencies.” They warn that dietary regimens can be “expensive” and “can alter the normal nutritional balance.”71 If changing your diet is expensive, I don’t know what they would say about being bedridden and incapacitated. As far as altering the “normal nutritional balance” is concerned, what is normal? Does this mean the diet that we now eat is “normal”—the diet that is largely responsible for diseases that cripple, kill and make profoundly miserable millions of Americans every year? Are massive rates of heart disease, cancer, autoimmune diseases, obesity and diabetes “normal”? If this is normal, I propose we start seriously considering the abnormal.

Something is amiss, though, because those countries that use the most cow’s milk and its products also have the highest fracture rates and the worst bone health.