Top 69 T. Colin Campbell Quotes
#2. It's never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better.
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#3. I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.
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#4. That's another pitfall of reductionism: Until scientists have the means to isolate and measure things, they insist those things don't and can't exist, and anyone who says otherwise is ignorant an superstitious.
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#5. There is almost no direct relationship between the amount of a nutrient consumed at a meal and the amount that actually reaches its main site of action in the body - what is called its bioavailability.
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#6. Even rational, data-driven scientists could be sent into prolonged states of hysteria when presented with evidence that their favorite foods might be killing them.
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#7. The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.
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#8. Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.
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#9. Science and theology are both lenses through which to interact with and interpret reality, sort of like a microscope and a pair of binoculars. Both sets of lenses tell us more about the world than we could see with the naked eye, but the information we get from each can diverge considerably.
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#10. A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.
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#11. Nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. In
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#12. The distinction between government, industry, science and medicine have become blurred.
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#13. a lot of so-called health breakthroughs are not nearly as impressive as their marketing makes them appear. While it may be good business to spin the numbers to increase sales, it isn't good science. One
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#14. In brief, the relationship between amount consumed and amount used for virtually all nutrients is not a linear relationship.
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#15. Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.
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#16. So removing vitamin E from its context within plant foods is like sending a general into battle without any troops.
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#17. Population studies begun forty to fifty years ago show that when people migrate from one country to another, they acquire the cancer rate of the country to which they move, despite the fact their genes remain the same.
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#18. Nutrition is not a mathematical equation in which two plus two is four. The food we put in our mouths doesn't control our nutrition - not entirely. What our bodies do with that food does.
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#19. The increasing fascination with and funding of genetic technology is simply another medical dead end, another reductionist rabbit hole that will lead us no further toward preventing and reversing chronic illness.
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#20. dairy intake is "one of the most consistent dietary predictors for prostate cancer in the published literature," and those who consume the most dairy have double to quadruple the risk.
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#21. You can't patent a recommendation to eat lots of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and whole grains. So there's no incentive for industry to invest in such research and no incentive for researchers to study and validate such claims.
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#22. In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.
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#23. If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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#24. These findings - the contents of Part II of this book - show that heart disease, diabetes and obesity can be reversed by a healthy diet.
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#25. The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that.
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#26. This is also the case with our disease-care system: it focuses on treating symptoms as if they were root causes, and as a result, it tends to choose interventions that completely ignore the true root causes and thus make it highly likely that symptoms will reappear.
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#27. A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.
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#28. Costs have so consistently outpaced inflation that we now spend one out of every seven dollars the economy produces on health care
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#29. We don't need to know the effects of single agents on health, because this is not the way that nature works. Nutrition has a wholistic effect on health; one that we consistently miss and misinterpret when we focus on isolated nutrients.
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#30. No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.
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#31. I have heard one doctor call high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets "make-yourself-sick" diets, and I think that's an appropriate moniker. You can also lose weight by undergoing chemotherapy or starting a heroin addiction, but I wouldn't recommend those, either.
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#32. Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.
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#33. Western culture is hell-bent on ignoring, disbelieving, and, in some cases, actively twisting the truth about what we should be eating - so much so that it can be hard for us to believe that we've been lied to all these years.
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#34. We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.
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#36. In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based foods, including all types of meat, dairy and eggs.
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#37. Every kilogram of beef requires 100,000 liters of water to produce. By comparison, a kilogram of wheat requires just 900 liters, and a kilogram of potatoes just 500 liters.
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#38. At this point, any scientist, doctor, journalist, or policy maker who denies or minimizes the importance of a whole food, plant-based diet for individual and societal well-being simply isn't looking clearly at the facts. There's just too much good evidence to ignore anymore.
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#39. Real scientists investigate parts, not wholes. But this diminishes the goals of true science. What most scientists are doing today really should be called technology, not science.
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#40. (I'm not crazy about the word diet, which implies a heroic and temporary effort rather than a sustainable and joyful way of eating).
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#41. Men with the highest dairy intakes had approximately double the risk of total prostate cancer,
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#42. Plant- and animal-based foods are hugely different in terms of their nutrient contents, and watching what foods you consume is far more important than obsessing over calorie-counting without respect to where those calories come from.
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#43. Casein, and very likely all animal proteins, may be the most relevant cancer-causing substances that we consume.
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#44. What you eat every day is a far more powerful determinant of your health than your DNA or most of the nasty chemicals lurking in your environment.
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#45. Physician error, medication error and adverse events from drugs or surgery kill 225,400 people per year (Chart 1.5).11 That makes our health care system the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only cancer and heart disease (Chart 1.4
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#46. Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
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#47. Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.
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#48. We need to make nutrition the central element of our health-care system. Furthermore,
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#49. As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.
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#50. One of the more exciting benefits of good nutrition is the prevention of diseases that are thought to be due to genetic predisposition. We now know that we can largely avoid these "genetic" diseases even though we may harbor the gene (or genes) that is (are) responsible for the disease.
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#51. Let's start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.
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#52. Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.
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#53. There's only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.
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#54. Instead, the secret of health has been in front of us all along, in the guise of a simple and perhaps boring word: nutrition. When
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#55. The solution to losing weight is a whole foods, plant-based diet, coupled with a reasonable amount of exercise. It is a long-term lifestyle change, rather than a quick-fix fad, and it can provide sustained weight loss while minimizing risk of chronic disease.
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#56. What is clear is that diets naturally high in fiber and low in animal-based foods can prevent colorectal cancer.
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#57. You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of protein in them, let's say potatoes, for example, or rice at 8 or 9%. That's the figure we more or less need.
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#58. These studies showed that people who migrated from one area to another and who started eating the typical diet of their new residency assumed the disease risk of the area to which they moved.
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#59. The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
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#61. Foci development was almost entirely dependent on how much protein was consumed, regardless of how much aflatoxin was consumed!
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#62. In one study of ten countries,14 a higher consumption of calcium was associated with a higher - not lower - risk of bone fracture (Chart 10.3
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#63. One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.
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#64. In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.
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#65. First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition - isn't.
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#66. I don't care if you eat worms and cardboard; if you eat 35% fewer calories, you will lose weight and your cholesterol levels will improve50 in the short run, but that is not to say that worms and cardboard form a healthy diet.
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#67. Other countries spend, on average, only about one-half of what the U.S. spends per capita on health care. Isn't it reasonable, therefore, for us to expect our system to rank above theirs? Unfortunately, among these twelve countries, the U.S. system is consistently among the worst performers.
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#68. Protein during promotion trumps the carcinogen, regardless of initial exposure.
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#69. When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.
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