The China Study in 30 Minutes by The 30 Minute Expert Series

Author:The 30 Minute Expert Series
Language: deu
Format: epub
Publisher: Callisto Media Inc.

Examples from The China Study

• Although there has been a movement in dietary circles promoting high-protein weight-loss programs (most notoriously, the Atkins Diet), Campbell suspected decades ago that protein levels had an effect on the rate of growth of liver tumors. He initially worked with laboratory rats, injecting them with small doses of aflatoxin, a potent carcinogen found in peanut mold, to observe its effects as a cause of liver cancer in humans. At about the same time, he read a scientific paper written by researchers in India regarding aflatoxin and liver cancer, which also added the variable of protein ingestion by the rats. Their results indicated that rats fed a diet low in protein showed little or no growth in their tumors, while rats fed a higher dose of protein displayed rapid tumor growth. Intrigued, Campbell set out to reproduce the results described, and he was also able to produce findings showing a correlation between protein ingestion and liver tumor growth. He expanded this research via his observational studies conducted in China, where he was able to show positive correlations between the amount of protein contained in various diets and the incidence of cancer, as well as a positive correlation between consumption of plant-based proteins and lower cancer rates.

• Westernized medicine currently defines high cholesterol as anything above 240 milligrams per deciliter of blood (mg/dL). A rate of 200–239 mg/dL is considered borderline high, and anything below 200 mg/dL is considered normal. However, the China Study revealed that the Chinese generally show blood cholesterol levels of 90–170 mg/dL, and sometimes even as low as 60–70 mg/dL. Thus, even the highest Chinese blood cholesterol level is well below the Western definition of normal, leading researchers to conclude that there is a definite positive correlation between higher blood cholesterol levels and the onset and progress of “diseases of affluence,” such as coronary heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and kidney disease. They also concluded that lower blood cholesterol levels, even levels considered by Western medicine to be dangerously low but that are frequently found in the Chinese population, have a positive correlation with a lower incidence, or even nonexistence, of the top killers of people in Westernized societies.

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