T. Colin Campbell Quotes

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• A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Powerful, Disease, Weapons

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2013). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health”, p.19, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Animal, Vegetables, Nuts

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.17, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

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  Cancer, Heart, Animal

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• I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone were to adopt this, I really believe we can cut health care costs by seventy to eighty percent. That's amazing. And it all comes from understanding nutrition, applying nutrition, and just watching the results.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Believe, Cutting, Medicine

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• Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Cancer, Health, May

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• Everything in food works together to create health or disease.

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  Working Together, Together, Disease

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.106, BenBella Books

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• 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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  Cancer, Heart, Osteoporosis

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• 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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  Eating Well, Too Late, Way

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.17, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at consumption levels close to normal-striking ly unlike cancer-causing environmental chemicals that are fed to lab animals at a few hundred or even a few thousand times their normal levels of consumption.

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  Cancer, Animal, Environmental

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• 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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  Food, Health, Animal

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• 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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  Battle, Disease, Able

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.75, BenBella Books

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• No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Cancer, Animal, Important

  Editorial for the newsletter "New Century Nutrition", December 1995.

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• Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Animal, Plant, Substitutes

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• As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Gold, Golden, Golden Rule

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.249, BenBella Books

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• 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.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Simple, Each Day, Answers

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.19, BenBella Books

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• Nutrition trumps genes.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Nutrition, Genes, Trump

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• 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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  Numbers, Meat, Looks

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.167, BenBella Books

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• First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Thinking, Keys, Firsts

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.9, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

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  Funny Inspirational, Animal, Disease

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• DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition. Expert government panels have said it, the surgeon general has said it and academic scientists have said it. More people die because of the way they eat than by tobacco use, accidents or any other lifestyle or environmental factor.

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  Past, Environmental Factors, Two

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• When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Enough, Absurdity

  T. Colin Campbell (2014). “The Low-Carb Fraud”, p.9, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• 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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  Example, Needs, Potatoes

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• 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.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Thinking, Working Together, Disease

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.106, BenBella Books

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• 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.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Healthy, Population, Way

  T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson (2013). “Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition”, p.61, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Heart, Men, Oil

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.97, BenBella Books

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