The China Study? Should I read it?!

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Studies prove that people who lose weight quickly are more likely to gain it back.

It shocks your body, and it can screw up your metabolism permanently to make gaining weight easier and losing weight harder... giving you something to struggle with all of your life.

If you make fast a more important factor than permanent, you are going to screw yourself badly.


Losing weight is more of a mental battle than a physical one. If you really want to be successful, you have to battle your impatience before you can change your habits.


And fact is, the only way to lose weight and keep it off is to change your habits--- forever. To learn to make better choices about exercising and eating healthier. Because if you ever change back to your old habits, your cells will gladly gain all that weight back.

So what does it matter how long it takes? As long as you change your lifestyle to healthier habits, you will take it off and keep it off.

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The China Study is not a diet book, it is the summary of several decades of research conducted by US Universities on nutrition and disease in China. The data has been published in numerous peer reviewed journals but because this is a book it is possible that Campbell prioritises his opinion ahead of the science. However I've read the book and browsed some of the studies and can only see one potential conflict in relation to dairy consumption helping to prevent osteoporosis, I know he recommends dairy should be avoided but don't recall if he linked it to osteoporosis or not.

Here are some of the studies involved, some or all of these are summarised in the book:

Diet, lifestyle, and the etiology of coronary artery disease: the Cornell China Study. American Journal of Cardiology Volume 82, Issue 10, Supplement 2 , Pages 18-21, 26 November 1998. http://www.ajconline.org/article/S0002-9…

Dietary intakes and urinary excretion of calcium and acids: a cross- sectional study of women in China. Am J Clin Nutr September 1993 vol. 58 no. 3 398-406. http://www.ajcn.org/content/58/3/398.abs…

Dietary calcium and bone density among middle-aged and elderly women in China. Am J Clin Nutr August 1993 vol. 58 no. 2 219-227. http://www.ajcn.org/content/58/2/219.abs…

Geographic association between urinary excretion of N-nitroso compounds and oesophageal cancer mortality in china. International Journal of Cancer Volume 54, Issue 5, pages 713–719, 9 July 1993. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10…

Diet and chronic degenerative diseases: perspectives from China. Am J Clin Nutr May 1994 vol. 59 no. 5 1153S-1161S. http://www.ajcn.org/content/59/5/1153S.a…

Dietary Vitamin C Intake and Lung Function in Rural China. Am. J. Epidemiol. (1998) 148 (6): 594-599. http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/14…

Antioxidant Status and Cancer Mortality in China. Int. J. Epidemiol. (1992) 21 (4): 625-635. http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/21…

Looking for criticisms of this work, I can find some on blogs (just more opinions, which are not peer reviewed) but I can't find any in academic journals. When an academic with the reputation Campbell has publishes a book, if there are falsehoods or inappropriate conclusions included you can anticipate their discussion in the review or letters sections of academic journals, but where are they? So we can conclude that any criticisms you may see posted by meat eaters here reflect the agenda of the blogger who wrote it rather than valid criticisms of the science. It is sad that this is the way the world is, but ever since the tobacco industry found the best way to stay in business was to sew doubt in the minds of consumer you can continue to sell your products even though the evidence suggests it will kill them; industries have followed suit to ensure their profits are insulated against evidence which indicates products or practices are not good for human health or the planet. The fossil fuel industries even hired the same guy the tobacco companies used to deny the science! And now the meat industries are doing the same thing...

I recommend reading it just to read it and learn about how this stuff functions in your body. It will give you more of a reason to be vegan.

And it's not propaganda. It's a 27 year-long scientific study done by a guy who grew up on a farm and ate plenty of meat, dairy and eggs into adulthood.

Yes you should read it if you like vegan propaganda.

See for yourself.

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