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

Then when that person comes along and actually cures patients with Brussels sprouts and broccoli, as Esselstyn did, and gets better results than any other pill or procedure known, you’ve suddenly announced that something works, hands down, better than what 99% of the profession is doing. Summarizing his point, Ess says: Cardiologists are supposed to be experts in diseases of the heart—and yet they have no expertise in treating heart disease, and when that awareness strikes them, they get very defensive. They can treat the symptoms, they can take care of arrhythmias, they can get you interventions, but they don’t know how to treat the disease, which is a nutritional treatment . . . Imagine a dietitian training a heart surgeon!