Heart Health : The China Study by Prof. Campbell revealed secret of the link between Cholesterol and Protein
The China Study by Professor T. Cilia Campbell PhD Respected nutrition and health researcher. The China Study - a 2005 nutrition book that details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer - advocates eating whole foods for health. The China Study is a 20 year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University and China Academy of Preventive Medicine that showed high consumption of animal based foods is associated with more chronic disease, while those who ate primarily a plant-based diet were the healthiest.
Dr Campbell has been experimentally investigating the relationship of food with health for over 50 years. He spent about 20years as a member of expert panels charged with the development of public policy and public education on food and health. Early in his career as a researcher with MIT and Virginia Tech, Dr Campbell worked to promote better health by eating more meat, milk and eggs - "high-quality animal protein". " I was happy to believe that the American diet was the best in the world ," he recalls.
He later was a researcher on a project in the Philippines working with malnourished children. The project became an investigation for Dr Campbell, as to why so many Filipino children were being diagnosed with liver cancer, predominately an adult disease. The primary goal of the project was to ensure that children were getting as much protein as possible. "in this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret. Children who ate the highest protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer..." He began to review other reports from around the world that reflected the findings of his research in the Philippines. He started an in-depth study into the role of nutrition , especially protein, in the cause of cancer. The project , 'the China Study', eventually produced more than 8,000 statistically significant associations between various dietary factors and disease. The findings ," People who are the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease... People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. The results could not be ignored," said Dr Campbell. "The data from the China Project suggest that what we have come to consider as 'normal' illness of ageing are really not normal. "In fact, these findings indicate that the vast majority perhaps 80-90% of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases , and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented, at least until very old age, simply by adopting a plant-based diet. "Dietary protein varies across China. When we compare people on diets that are virtually nil in animal protein with those for whom animal protein is upwards of 20-30% of the total protein intake, the cholesterol level go, on average, from around 9mg per 100 ml to about 170 mg per 100 ml. "Such an increase in cholesterol is associated with the emergence of the cancers and heart disease that increasingly plague the world's developed nations."
Cholesterol and the protein link Earlier studies have provided impressive evidence that when a reduction in fat is compared to a reduction in protein, the protein effect on blood cholesterol is more significant than the effect of saturated fat, says Professor Campbell. " Blood cholesterol levels can be reduced by reducing dietary animal protein. Some of the plant proteins, particularly soy, have an impressive ability to reduce blood cholesterol ."
- extract from Utusan Konsumer May-June 2012 : Plant-based Nutrition
The China Study by Professor T. Cilia Campbell PhD Respected nutrition and health researcher. The China Study - a 2005 nutrition book that details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer - advocates eating whole foods for health. The China Study is a 20 year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University and China Academy of Preventive Medicine that showed high consumption of animal based foods is associated with more chronic disease, while those who ate primarily a plant-based diet were the healthiest.
Dr Campbell has been experimentally investigating the relationship of food with health for over 50 years. He spent about 20years as a member of expert panels charged with the development of public policy and public education on food and health. Early in his career as a researcher with MIT and Virginia Tech, Dr Campbell worked to promote better health by eating more meat, milk and eggs - "high-quality animal protein". " I was happy to believe that the American diet was the best in the world ," he recalls.
He later was a researcher on a project in the Philippines working with malnourished children. The project became an investigation for Dr Campbell, as to why so many Filipino children were being diagnosed with liver cancer, predominately an adult disease. The primary goal of the project was to ensure that children were getting as much protein as possible. "in this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret. Children who ate the highest protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer..." He began to review other reports from around the world that reflected the findings of his research in the Philippines. He started an in-depth study into the role of nutrition , especially protein, in the cause of cancer. The project , 'the China Study', eventually produced more than 8,000 statistically significant associations between various dietary factors and disease. The findings ," People who are the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease... People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease. The results could not be ignored," said Dr Campbell. "The data from the China Project suggest that what we have come to consider as 'normal' illness of ageing are really not normal. "In fact, these findings indicate that the vast majority perhaps 80-90% of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases , and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented, at least until very old age, simply by adopting a plant-based diet. "Dietary protein varies across China. When we compare people on diets that are virtually nil in animal protein with those for whom animal protein is upwards of 20-30% of the total protein intake, the cholesterol level go, on average, from around 9mg per 100 ml to about 170 mg per 100 ml. "Such an increase in cholesterol is associated with the emergence of the cancers and heart disease that increasingly plague the world's developed nations."
Cholesterol and the protein link Earlier studies have provided impressive evidence that when a reduction in fat is compared to a reduction in protein, the protein effect on blood cholesterol is more significant than the effect of saturated fat, says Professor Campbell. " Blood cholesterol levels can be reduced by reducing dietary animal protein. Some of the plant proteins, particularly soy, have an impressive ability to reduce blood cholesterol ."
- extract from Utusan Konsumer May-June 2012 : Plant-based Nutrition
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