THE FOREMOST IMPORTANCE OF EATING RIGHT FOR YOU, YOUR LIFE and YOUR HEALTH "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when grown-ups are afraid of the light". - Plato
More and more people are slowly confronted with the fact that most of what they believe when it comes to food and nutrition is not necessarily true... Let's face it, in fact, most of what you believe when it comes to foods & beverages, as well as to health and health care, is just exactly what the word entails, a "belief". Something that has been programmed in what John Lilly called your "human biocomputer". The very definition of a "belief" is that it is not necessarily true.
In fact most of what has been programmed in people's mind by private interests (Got milk?), advertising, fads, etc, in other words, what most people believe when it comes to food and nutrition has very little to do with the reality of what their body needs. To the point of being provably life-endengering, and thus, very serious reasons exist for everyone to replace unsubstantiated beliefs by hard, scientific FACTS. Which, fortunately, have been well researched in the past 50 years, and are now, as you will see, easily accessible even to the layman.
Truth is, when it comes to nutrition, in many if not most cases, what you (like most anyone else, including yours truly, before I starting seriously researching the subject) believe is definitely patently false. Even if some people would almost be ready to die for notions such as, say, “I need milk to get calcium”, and one gets calcium from milk. This is just to name one example. There are plenty more egregious ones, but this one, a testament to the power of good marketing for a bad cause, is probably what will come to the mind of most people first, when asked about nutrition.
And you and the ones you love or care for are paying for these falsenesses on an on-going basis, in the form of chronic and acute diseases, that encourage you to pop up the pills "prescribed" by what Doctor Mendelssohn (read his "Confessions of a Medical Heretic") called "the priests of the Established Church of Official Medicine".
The words “almost ready to die for” weren't written just as an hyperbole. In fact, this was no exaggeration. If your belief in your beliefs is so strong that you are ready to die for them, you actually will! Death will come in the form of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, iatrogenic diseases, immune system dysfunctions and collapses, etc. Thus, if your belief in the Standard American Diet is such that “it doesn't matter, that's the way I always ate, and that's the way I am going to continue eating”, then there is no need for you to read any further.
People ready to die for their beliefs deserve a lot of respect, even if, by definition, they are also fools, since these beliefs are nothing more than that - beliefs. That is, "programs" that have one way or another found their way into their “human biocomputer”, be it through parents, schools, advertising, the media, or in some way, society at large.
If you look at human history, the collection of beliefs people have believed in is quite amazing. The weirdest things have been hold to be true, and sometimes, to be the absolute truth, worth dying for. To name just one example, years after the Wright Brothers flew, people were still writing (and eagerly reading) articles explaining how heavier than air flight was mathematically impossible. In fact, this view was “proven” in details in no less than “Scientific American” last just a couple months before they actually did. For thousands of years, hemp was the highest praised source of medicine, and Abraham Lincoln rarely went to bed without smoking a bit of it. Today, it's called “marijuana”, and mere “possession” is a crime. In the South, fifty years ago, “miscegenation” was punishable by law. Today, “discrimination” is. In any geography class in the early 1960's, a “quack” by the name of Alfred Wegener was ridiculed for proposing the insane theory that continents actually moved, and that anyone looking at a map of th world could actually see with their own eyes where the original super-continent had actually fractured. Less than a decade later, in the same classes, anyone who disbelieved the fact was in turn laughed at. Etc, etc.
And all this is not as if it was just quaint reminiscences of the past, being that nowadays, such things don't happen. It happens every day: Just think suicide bombers. Just think aspartame ("diet" sodas, etc), fluoride, "Atkins Diet" or "Got milk?". It's happening right now, in your own life. And YOU are the victim!
Apartame kills (in fact, there is an easy protocol to follow if you want to kill someone with "diet" beverages, and it works real well, even if most people find about it unwillingly), fluoride kills (any small child can be killed with the content of just ONE nicely-flavored tube of standard fluoride-containing dentifrice), Atkin's Diet kills, and so do milk and dairy products, albeit a lot more slowly, though clogged arteries and a host of other degenerative diseases. And these are just examples.
All this has been scientifically investigated over and over, and proven beyond any reasonable doubt. Just read www.notmilk.com, or make a search on Google for “aspartame poison” or “fluoride dangers” or “Atkins Diet kills”, if you are in any doubt.
Yet, most probably, you love your cheesy pizza, and, more importantly, still hold the strong belief that you need the calcium in milk. Even if in truth, what milk does is *extract* calcium from your bones. That is, does EXACTLY the opposite of what you are led to believe.
And milk was just taken as an example here. In truth, it's not even the worst, and no more than just that: an example. Apartame and MSG are probably worse. And the victims of fad diets are too numerous to count.
Now, if you are satisfied with the knowledge that, according to governmental statistics, you have a 90%+ chance to die not of old age, but of one of the following: Iatrogenic diseases, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other degenerative diseases, which all can be very easily prevented, again there truly is no need for you to read any further.
But if by chance you feel like you'd want to do something about it, well, it's easy, since all you have to do, actually, is to eat differently.
Nothing weird, by the way. Just mainly a vegetal-based diet, of organically-grown vegetables, grains, pulses and fruits, which you can supplement, if you so desire, with fish and eggs. And if you feel you absolutely need to eat meat, add fowl, that is, chicken and turkey (both organically grain fed) or even more exotic ones, such as emeu ("the other red meat") and ostrich. Just avoid eating mammals or mammal-derived products, not because doing so is “immoral”, but simply because it's not good for you.
Now, don't take this for vegetarian preaching. I myself eat meat. Because I am, apparently, addicted to it (a lifetime of habit is hard to break), and because society makes it very hard for us not to eat meat. But at least, I never buy any, I try to eat as little of it as I can, and I certainly do not pretend that I need these “animal proteins”, when hard science has amply proved the contrary. (Just read on, access to all the basic data will be provided here). I am honest with myself, and recognize that it is hard to break lifetime habits, even if I KNOW they are bad habits. In a way, meat is a drug, exactly like nicotin or heroin. The only differences are that: 1/ It's legal. 2/ It can actually (and painstakingly and at a high cost in terms of health) be transformed into actual food by our digestive system.
So, if you cannot help, but need to eat conventional meat and dairy, at least try to eat as little of it as possible, and make sure that you have ample organically-grown vegetables, grains and pulses (that is, beans and similar foods) as well as some fruit. And, always remember that according to Dr Otto Warburg, the only physician who ever got TWO nobels, both about cancer, and at a time when researchers who aren't in the pocket of the Big Pharma could still get Nobels, the only "organically-grown" things you can truly trust in are the ones you grow yourself in your own garden, or that were grown by people you know and trust.
You just got the secret of a long, happy, youthful and disease-free life, and no one can say that this is a very complicated secret. Yet, in truth, this is all you need to know.
However, of course, the problem is that you don't *believe* in it. Or, very possibly, you agree with the idea at an intellectual level (hard not to, if you do your homework), but it is not a “core belief” of yours.
So, I am going to try to actually persuade you that this is the truth, and all the truth you need.
Fortunately, this has indeed been proven beyond any reasonable doubt, by a gentleman with the most impeccable scientific and academic credentials named Dr T. Colin Campbell. Over the years, Dr Campbell authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, and he is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University, in New York. In close to 50 years of research, he has received more than 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding. And being long tenured, he can (and does!) say things that would get anyone else fired under the direst pressure in a matter of days. And his conclusions are very similar to those of Pr Dr Warburg, the only physician to ever receive two Nobel prizes (missing a third by a hair's width). So, if you have any belief in science and the opinion of independent-minded scientific authorities, you will have no other choice than listen to what DDr Campbell and Warburg had to say.
Here is an overview of Dr Campbells research, followed by a piece Dr Campbell wrote in refutation of one of his critics.
But before you go any further, the essence of it all is simple: Most diseases or susceptibility to disease are nutritional in origin, and this certainly includes the great majority of all the diseases you fear, and fear with reason, because they indeed, in the end, are going to kill you, and the people you care about. If you want to avoid disease and keep and ideal weight, youthful appearance, health, and level of activity for a long, happy and productive life, you need to modify the way you eat. Simple, no?
Changing the way you eat can be done easily if you follow three simple basic commandments:
1/ Eat as much as you can from vegetal, and not animal sources. Try to overgrow the propaganda and programming that makes you believe you can't live without eating foods of animal origin. If nothing else, at least avoid foods of mammal origin, and particularly, dairy products. (This, by the way, will allow you to assimilate MORE calcium, not less!)
2/ Do not eat anything that is not marketed as "organic", unless you can't afford organic foods at all. However, remain aware that the "organic" label means less and less, except ONE most important thing: It's GMO free. With a bit of shopping around and organization, organic foods can cost barely more than conventional foods. If bought wholesale or in co-op buying effort, often less. And sometimes a lot less.
3/ Finally, and most importantly, don't buy anything you can grow yourself. Yes, I know, gosh, growing food, for some the thought is going to be more they can possibly endure...
But, be aware that if you live in Southern California, all your basic vegetable and pulse needs and some of your needs in fruits can easily be homegrown (it's best to leave grain growing to the professional farmer, although some are easy to grow). And that this remains true in many other places, with a bit or organization, of course.
But in SoCal, this is truly a most simple thing to do, (and I can show you how, if you wish). Plus, you can even buy ready-made gardens, if you don't have the time, knowledge, or inclination to create your own.
Considering that this simple step might save your life, or at least, add quite a few years to it, to say nothing about the ~quality~ of that life, most people will agree that it is truly a very small inconvenience for a very big reward.
Now, here is now an overview of Dr Campbell's findings:
The China Study (ISBN 1-932100-38-5) is a 2005 book by T. Colin Campbell, of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University [1], and one of the directors of the “China Project”[ 1], assisted by his son, Thomas M. Campbell II. Dr Colin Campbell is currently on the advisory board of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.[2]
The book examines the relationship between the consumption of animal products and illnesses such as cancers of the breast, prostate, and large bowel, diabetes, coronary heart disease, obesity, autoimmune disease, osteoporosis, degenerative brain disease, and macular degeneration. Indirectly, and without stating it clearly, the relation between organic foods (such as eaten by poor peasants in China) and non-organic ones is also examined.
The "China study" referred to in the title is the “China Project”, a "survey of death rates for twelve different kinds of cancer for more than 2,400 counties and 880 million (96%) of their citizens" conducted jointly by the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Cornell University and Oxford University, over the course of twenty years, under the authority and leadership of Dr Campbell.
The authors introduce and explain the conclusions of scientific studies, which have correlated animal-based diets and adulterated foods with disease. They show how the study demonstrate that diets high in protein, particularly animal protein (such as casein in bovine milk) are strongly linked to diseases such as heart disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes, among many other diseases.
The authors recommend that people eat a plant-based diet and avoid consuming beef, milk, pork and even poultry as a means to minimize and/or reverse the development of disease, particularly chronic diseases. The authors also recommend that people take in adequate amounts of sunshine in order to maintain sufficient levels of Vitamin D and consider taking supplements of vitamins, particularly vitamin B12. The authors particularly criticize "low carb" fad diets (such as the Atkins diet), which include restrictions on the percentage of calories derived from complex carbohydrates.
The book goes over the following:
1 Principles of food and health
2 Basis for the principles
2.1 Statistical evidence: "Western" diseases correlated to concentration of blood cholesterol
2.2 Blood cholesterol levels correlated to diet, particularly animal protein
2.3 Metabolism and incidence of obesity linked to diet
2.4 Osteoporosis linked to diet, particularly dairy [that is, milk, cheese (=milk concentrated 11 times over in average) and dairy products rob you of calcium, not the opposite].
3 Statements on misinformation about nutrition
4 Statements on current nutrition studies
5 References
Addenda: External links
Principles of food and health. In the book, the authors describe their eight principles of food and health [3]:
1/ Nutrition represents the combined activities of countless food substances.
2/ Vitamin supplements are not a panacea for good health.
3/ There are virtually no nutrients in animal-based foods that are not better provided by plants.
4/ Genes do not determine disease on their own, they must be activated or expressed, and that nutrition plays a critical role in determining which genes, good and bad, are expressed. The same is true of susceptibility to infectious diseases.
5/ Nutrition can substantially control the adverse effects of noxious chemicals.
6/ The same proper nutrition that prevents disease in its early stages can also halt or reverse it in its later stages.
7/ Nutrition that is beneficial for a particular chronic disease will support good health across the board.
8/ Good nutrition creates health in all areas of our existence.
Basis for the principles:
The authors state that their views are scientifically based on research, and that much of the evidence is obtained from human studies.[4] One such human study, The China Study, is described as the most comprehensive study of dietary and lifestyle factors associated with disease mortality ever made. It was done in China [4] over 20 years, with full support of Health Authorities, comparing the health consequences of diets rich in animal-based foods to diets very rich in plant-based foods [5] among people who are genetically similar.[6]
What the study also did, although never in a stated and structured manner, was comparing the intake of self-grown organic and little-processed foods of all origin in poor rural areas with more adulterated forms bought from shops in cities and most prosperous areas.
Statistical evidence: "Western" diseases correlated to concentration of blood cholesterol.
The authors state that the China Study included a comparison of the prevalence of Western diseases (coronary heart disease, diabetes, and cancers of the colon, lung, breast, leukemia, childhood brain, stomach and liver)[7] in each county with diet and lifestyle variables and found that one of the strongest predictors of Western diseases was blood cholesterol with a statistical significance level equal to or exceeding 99.9% certainty. [8]
We should notice here that this does not necessarily mean that cholesterol is “bad” in itself, and that one should gulp “anti-cholesterol” pills, rather than adopt proper and functional nutritional approaches to disease. The statistical correlation to some extent certainly also expresses the fact that cholesterol is used by the body as a defense and repair mechanism against the aggression brought in by improper diets. A fact that the authors have perhaps not looked at as carefully as could have been.
The authors report that lower blood cholesterol levels are linked to lower rates of heart disease and cancer. They add that as blood cholesterol levels decreased from 170 mg/dl to 90 mg/dl, cancers of the liver, rectum, colon, male lung, female lung, breast, childhood leukemia, adult leukemia, childhood brain, adult brain, stomach and esophagus (throat) decreased.[9] They also report that the counties in China with the highest rates of some cancers were more than 100 times greater than counties with the lowest rates of these cancers.[10]
The authors also state that “as blood cholesterol levels in rural China rose in certain counties the incidence of “Western” diseases also increased. What made this so surprising was that Chinese levels were far lower than we had expected. The average level of blood cholesterol was only 127 mg/dl, which is almost 100 points less than the American average (215 mg/dl). ...Some counties had average levels as low as 94 mg/dl. …For two groups of about twenty-five women in the inner part of China, average blood cholesterol was at the amazingly low level of 80 mg/dl.”[9]
They add that these "Western" diseases were relatively rare in China by western standards adding for example that "at the time of our study, the death rate from coronary heart disease was seventeen times higher among American men than rural Chinese men." [11] This of course comes to no surprise, considering that, as stated before, the “average level of blood cholesterol was only 127 mg/dl, which is almost 100 points less than the American average (215 mg/dl)”
Blood cholesterol levels correlated to diet, particularly animal protein:
The authors state that “several studies have now shown, in both experimental animals and in humans, that consuming animal-based protein increases blood cholesterol levels. Saturated fat and dietary cholesterol also raise blood cholesterol, although these nutrients are not as effective at doing this as is animal protein. In contrast, plant-based foods contain no cholesterol and, in various other ways, help to decrease the amount of cholesterol made by the body.”[12] Which, again, can come to no surprise, once one remembers that cholesterol is actually part of the defense and repair mechanisms of the body, and that a more readily adapted and assimilable diet will be less aggressive on the body, and thus, need less cholesterol to tolerate.
The authors also state that "these disease associations with blood cholesterol were remarkable, because blood cholesterol and animal-based food consumption both were so low by American standards. In rural China, animal protein intake (for the same individual) averages only 7.1 grams per day whereas Americans average 70 grams per day."[12]
The authors conclude that “the findings from the China Study indicate that the lower the percentage of animal-based foods that are consumed, the greater the health benefits -- even when that percentage declines from 10% to 0% of calories. So it’s not unreasonable to assume that the optimum percentage of animal-based products is zero, at least for anyone with a predisposition for a degenerative disease.”[13]
Metabolism and incidence of obesity linked to diet:
The authors report that "the average calorie intake per kilogram of body weight was 30% higher among the least active Chinese than among average Americans. Yet, body weight was 20% lower."[14] In other words, what makes us fat is animal-based diets, and particularly dairy, which is practically unknown in rural China. The authors add that "consuming diets high in protein and fat transfers calories away from their conversion into body heat to their storage form-as body fat (unless severe calorie restriction is causing weight loss.)"[15] Which is even more true of animal-based proteins and fats.
The authors state that "diet can cause small shifts in calorie metabolism that lead to big shifts in body weight" adding that "the same low-animal protein, low-fat diet that helps prevent obesity also allows people to reach their full growth potential."[16]
Osteoporosis linked to diet:
The authors state that osteoporosis is linked to the consumption of animal protein because animal protein, unlike plant protein, increases the acidity of blood and tissues. This is particularly true of dairy products, which are extremely acidifying. They add that to neutralize this acid, calcium, a very effective base, is pulled from the bones, which weakens them and puts them at greater risk for fracture.[17] The authors add that "in our rural China Study, where the animal to plant ratio [for protein] was about 10%, the fracture rate is only one-fifth that of the U.S."[18] It is of note here that Dr Otto Warburg, the world's foremost cancer researcher of all times, and the only physician to ever get TWO Nobel Prizes (missing a third by a hair's width), demonstrated in the 1930's and 1940's that cancer can only develop in an acidic and poorly-oxygenated medium. In other words, that the best pre-requisite for cancer is a diet rich in animal-based foods, particularly dairy products. The same is of course true of cardio-vascular disease, particularly so as the amount of cholesterol present in the circulation system is directly correlated to the amount of animal-based food eaten..
Statements on misinformation about nutrition:
The authors state that "most, but not all, of the confusion about nutrition is created in legal, fully disclosed ways and is disseminated by unsuspecting, well-intentioned people, whether they are researchers, politicians or journalists." [19] To say nothing, of course, about less-well intentioned people, such as advertisers, or people deriving their income from the prevalence of certain diseases, usually with cures “just around the corner” (if only they got more money, of course...).
The authors also state that some people in very influential government and university positions have acted "to stifle open and honest scientific debate.[20]
The authors further state that "there are powerful, influential, and enormously wealthy industries that stand to lose a vast amount of money if Americans start shifting to a plant-based diet", a fact that is quite self-evident, but rarely mentioned. [21]
Statements on current nutrition studies:
The authors add that most current studies on nutrition are inherently flawed because these studies are overly focused on the effects of varying amounts of individual nutrients among individuals consuming a high-risk diet, including high levels of animal-based protein. [22]
This is another inconvenient truth that is self-evident, once one looks at official research with an objective eye, but which is also very rarely mentioned.
Conclusion: If you wish to be healthy and increase the quality and length of your life, you need to modify the way you eat, and the same is of course true for the rest of your family, for your friends and the people in your community, and the rest of the world.
This can be done progressively, but you cannot escape the fact that you need to do it, or accept to face the consequences of not doing it -- which you most probably face already, in form of weight problems, health problems, and a lower quality of life.
Yes, this is difficult. Here is a useful quote: "The peace eye [among other things, our inner capacity for detached comprehension] must be invoked when beliefs are put into question, because our attachment to what we believe is so visceral that any challenge may trigger a violent response. Blind identification with beliefs to be a primary symptom of what Wilhelm Reich called "the emotional plague." This is a widespread social epidemic and a psychospiritual disease, rampant in our time. Irrational behavior is driven by beliefs that gain in power as those who hold them become more and more dissociated from genuine, embodied knowledge. (...) If we cannot openly challenge beliefs — those we ourselves hold, as well as those held by others — we stand at risk of being enslaved by them, and manipulated by those who would impose them for sinister purposes. 2400 years ago Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living. Equally so, it could be said that the unexamined belief is not worth holding. No belief is sacred or beyond examination." - John Lash
The reason why this quote has been placed here is simply to remind you of one fact: Most of what you believed and maybe still believe when it comes to foods & beverages, as well as to health and health care, is just that, a "belief". Something that has, one way or another, been programmed in what John Lilly called your "human biocomputer". You need to consider getting rid of beliefs that are not necessarily true and replace them with hard fact. Dr Campbell's book, and the study it refers to, are such “hard facts”.
These hard facts will lead you to the inescapable conclusion that you need to seriously contemplate doing the following:
1/ Decrease as much as you can the amount of animal-based foods you eat, and first and foremost, eliminate dairy products and then mammal meat (beef, pork, lamb or mutton or less common meat such as goat, rabbit, etc). Shifting first to fowl and eggs; and then, to fish, trying to eat less and less animal products as you learn to replace them with superior vegetal alternatives.
2/ Decrease the amount of non-organic foods you eat. For example, it is almost certainly healthier to eat non-organic (but GMO-free) plant-based foods than organic meat.
3/ Increase the amount of self-grown or community-grown organic foods you eat. Or by creating and managing your own garden, or, if necessary, by buying shares in Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) and co-op endeavors, or Ready-Made Gardens.
In practice, if you haven't done so already, maintaining your own garden (this can be done with very little effort with “Automated Gardens”) can certainly be rated among the best decision you will ever take in your life. And if you can not or will not do it yourself, just find someone who will do it for you, for a fee or in some sort of barter exchange, like for example for a share of the produce, offered to people who do not have their own land.
More, schools and educational programs should place teaching how to create and maintain one's own organic and sustainable garden at the highest levels in their curricula.
As you can see, this might all be, in a way, very revolutionary, but it is certainly not very complicated to do. Doing the right thing is now entirely up to you!
References:
[] Arnold, Wilfred Niels (October 2005). "The China Study". Leonardo 38 (5): 436. MIT Press. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
[] "About PCRM", access date 2008-07-21.
[] Campbell, T. Colin (2006). The China Study:The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health. Benbella Books, 223-240. ISBN 1-932100-38-5.
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External links:
The official website promoting the book "The China Study": http://www.thechinastudy.com/
China-Cornell-Oxford Project: http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/ChinaProject/
The China Study: http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/reports/campbell_china2.html
Chris Masterjohn – Critic: "The Truth About the China Study" (maintains that animal-based diets are healthy if organic. And praises raw milk, which is indeed a lot less toxic that cooked (“pasteurized”) milk, if for no other reason that people are usually unable to drink that much of it. http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/China-Study.html
Chris Masterjohn – Critic: Response to T. Colin Campbell Regarding the China Study http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Campbell-Masterjohn.html
and, most interesting:
T. Colin Campbell's: Response to Questions Raised About the Book, "The China Study. Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health" http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/campbell_china_response.htm
At a later time, I will make a commented edition of both Chris Masterjohn's critics (which do contain good points, as well as misguided ones, but are in fact a lot less opposed to Dr Campbell's findings as might appear in the first place, once all relevant factors have been considered) and of Dr Campbell's overall response to this and other critic, and refutation of their views, based on an impeachable accumulation of hard facts.
It must be noted that among independent experts (that is, people whose livelihood does not directly or indirectly depend on the animal-based foods industry, or on Big Pharma and the medical-industrial complex), there is general agreement on the validity of the conclusions derived from the “China Project”.
The “China Project” has so clearly and overwhelmingly proved the points exposed by Dr Campbell that there is not much debate left:
Today, it is clearly proven that most human disease is correlated with the way we eat. And can be reversed by eating differently.
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