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| The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health | 
 enlarge | Authors: T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell Ii
Creators: John Robbins, Howard Lyman
Publisher: Benbella Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
Buy New: $8.79
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Avg. Customer Rating:  472 reviews
Sales Rank: 556
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st BenBella Books Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 417
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1932100660
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9781932100662
ASIN: 1932100660
Publication Date: June 1, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics! June 29, 2005
114 out of 215 found this review helpful
Back in the 1980s, T. Colin Campbell and a team of researchers traveled to China to survey the dietary habits of 6,500 adults in 130 rural villages. Although they gathered data on a whopping 367 food variables,they somehow neglected to note how much soy people were eating. Yet soy is widely reputed to be a "miracle food" and the reason that the Chinese have lower rates of some cancers and other chronic diseases. So it's "startling" indeed to find that ALL legume consumption came to a grand total of only 12 grams per day, which is NOT very much. However, what's truly "startling" about this book is not the researchers' failure to be "comprehensive" -- they gathered plenty of good data though readers will have to go to earlier publications to get it -- but the many ways Campbell massages, misuses and misreports that data. Although he clearly thinks that it's all for a good cause, this is a textbook case of "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics." I recommend that the publisher follow up with a sequel -- a companion volume in which researchers without any dietary agenda take the same data and reach statistically justified conclusions. Now that would give readers food for thought!
More vegan myth June 26, 2005
73 out of 161 found this review helpful
Just more vegan propaganda wrapped up to look like a legitimate study. Have you noticed how many of the usual culprits that are highly recommending this book have an vegetarian agenda? i.e. McDougall, Barnard, Ornish et al. What this book *can* teach you is that statistics can be presented in such a way as to prove most anything you want.
The Data Doesn't Compute June 21, 2005
64 out of 146 found this review helpful
The most comprehensive aspect of this book is the extent to which T Colin Campbell misuses data to prop up the inflated health claims he makes for vegetarian, low-fat diets. The implications are "startling" all right. Fortunately, enough data is included so that those with a thorough grounding in statistics can figure this out. Unfortunately, readers without the training or the motivation to do so and so will make dietary choices based on the author's dubious conclusions.
 Our Tax Dollars paid and T. Colin Campbell delivered! June 17, 2005
20 out of 38 found this review helpful
Don't miss this book. There is not another book outside of the Bible more important right here and right now. Finally one of the "establishment" hollering from the "ivory towers" built by taxpayers. Listen to the voice. Even if you don't have time for the whole book..read the first few chapters. After that, skip around if you have to, but keep it handy for quick pick up.
If you have never read a book of this type..well good..start here. If you've read John Robbins, Dr. John Mcdougall, Neal Barnard, Dr. Joel Fuhrman...you will still learn lots here!
No Other Book Like It June 7, 2005
39 out of 55 found this review helpful
I have read many of the popular diet and nutrition books out there, and none of them have been able to stand up to this one. Although I knew that fruits and vegetables were very healthy, I used to vigorously defend moderation. I liked a hamburger or other beef dish two or three times a week and I tried to eat low-fat meats most other days. Chips and soda were only occasional treats, so I thought I was eating pretty good. But I was overweight, and I started doing the diet book merry go round. At the insistence of a good friend I bought this book and started reading it and had a hard time refuting any of the arguments made by the author. There is such a wide variety of evidence, from so many professional journals, regarding so many different studies, that it was difficult to come up with counter-arguments to defend my old beliefs. It's forced me to change the way I think about food and health.
This is not a compilation of information from secondary sources like newspapers, magazines, and other popular books; this is a compilation of peer-reviewed research findings from the top biomedical journals, complete with hundreds of references. These are research findings not just from the author, but also from researchers at Harvard, Oxford, and dozens of other reputable institutions. This is the most credibility I've ever seen in a health book.
All of this information is strengthened by the last part of the book, the inside look at how food and medicine are being bungled in the US.
I also am impressed by the endorsements for this book. I don't know of any other diet and health book that has the credibility of having endorsements from a former Ivy League President, a Nobel Prize winning scientist, the former top food policy maker in Washington, the president of one of the premier cancer organizations, and a former senior World Bank official. Amazing!
Most importantly in the past 2 months since beginning to change my diet, I have lowered my cholesterol by 45 points, lost over 15 pounds, and can now walk up the stairs in my office building without having to pause halfway up. I get fewer headaches and my back and knee pain has gotten better(from losing weight, probably.) I feel great. I can't recommend this book enough.
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