The Future of Nutrition Quotes

“My suggestion that we “cut out the middle livestock” and go straight for the energy provided by plants is based on a wholistic understanding of the science of nutrition.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The Future of Nutrition: An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right

“Scientists tell us that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction—not in the near future, but now. Will we be complacent and quicken it, or will we reflect on how our behavior is fueling it?”
― T. Colin Campbell, The Future of Nutrition: An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right

“To reiterate just a couple of examples mentioned earlier: the majority of authorized cancer drugs (57 percent) between 2009 and 2013 came to market without any evidence that “they improved the quality or quantity of patients’ lives,”1 and five-year survival rates for patients using cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs increased by an average of only 2.1 percent,2 a significant portion of which may simply be placebo.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The Future of Nutrition: An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right

“The logic of Big Tobacco then, and of the food industry today, is simple: it is easier (and more effective) to confuse the public than to defend a poisonous product.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The Future of Nutrition: An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right

“A confused consumer is a gullible consumer, and gullible consumers fatten the wallets and purses of the food, pharmaceutical, and supplement industries.”
― T. Colin Campbell, The Future of Nutrition: An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right