Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

by T. Colin Campbell

food is pretty much the most important topic there is. No food, no civilization.

If we had to rely on our brains to figure out what to eat, in what quantities, and in which combinations, or risk malnutrition or disease, the human race would have died out long ago.

It’s as if you noticed that happy people tend to smile more than unhappy people, so you invented a device that stretched the human face into a smile as a cure for depression. Yes, the smile is a good marker for happiness. Yes, there’s a correlation between smiling and happiness. Yes, it’s possible that reminding yourself to smile more can affect your mood. But isolating the smile and ignoring all other factors that might contribute to happiness and depression is patently ridiculous.

A disease is nothing more than a theoretical model applied to a cluster of symptoms.

We’re asking, “How much vitamin C are we getting?” when we should be asking, “What foods should we be eating to support our bodies’ ability to maintain health?”

almost as soon as we eliminate sources of methane, its contribution to the greenhouse effect begins to wane significantly. By contrast, even after we stop releasing CO2, the gas that has already been released will contribute to global warming for decades.

If you think that it’s natural for human beings to eat animals, consider just how unnatural are the lives and deaths of the animals that make up the American food supply in the twenty-first century.