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Book Review: �The China Study� by Gerry Coffey

�THE CHINA STUDY�: ��FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD.� by T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and Thomas M. Campbell, II. BenBella Books, Dallas, TX, 368 pages., $24.95, hardcover.

�Behind every successful man stands a great woman.�

The love and support of his wife, acknowledges Dr. T. Colin Campbell, arguably the foremost nutritionist in the world today,* gave him the courage to sacrifice his career to correct a grievous wrong perpetuated against a trusting society.

 Writes Dr. Campbell:

 "...this (book) happened because Karen, my lifelong love and wife of 43 years, made it so. I wanted to do it, but she wanted it even more. She said it had to be done for the children of the world. She cajoled, she pushed and she insisted that we keep our nose to the grindstone. She read every word, those kept and those discarded--some several times.�

In �The China Study: Startling implications for diet, weight loss, and long term health,� Cornell University Professor Emeritus, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, discloses how taxpayers have been duped to believe the very foods that cause their diseases will help make them healthy.

 The rampant spread of:

Moreover, reveals Dr. T. Colin Campbell (brief bio below), acting upon the cause will not only wipe out the majority of chronic diseases but can also eliminate world hunger by freeing up resources currently �feeding� the culprit that causes desperate people to seek a panacea through drugs.

As a former conventional Health Educator who once helped perpetuate those myths--and nearly died as a result--I am grateful there are people like Dr. Campbell and his wife, Karen, who had the courage to sacrifice a distinguished career to give back to the American people whose taxes made that career possible.

Many years in conception and 3 intensive years in the writing, �The China Study� is co-authored by their youngest son, Tom, who took a 2 year-hiatus from his own profession and as a result of this book is applying to medical school.

�The China Study� amasses a wealth of scientific studies and puts them in everyday language. The indisputable facts speak for themselves:  simple changes in diet can dramatically reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity as well as many other scourges of health, wealth and longevity.

* Short bios of The China Study authors:

For more than 40 years, T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Study, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and Project Director of the China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project. The study was the culmination of a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.

Dr. Campbell received his master�s degree and Ph.D. from Cornell, and served as a Research Associate at MIT. He spent 10 years on the faculty of Virginia Tech�s Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition before returning to the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell in 1975 where he presently holds his Endowed Chair (now Emeritus)

His principal scientific interests, which began with his graduate training in the late 1950s, has been on the effects of nutritional status on long term health, particularly on the cause of cancer. He has conducted original research both in laboratory experiments and in large-scale human studies; has received more than 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding, mostly from the National Institute of Health, and has served on several grant review panels of multiple funding agencies, lectured extensively world wide, and has authored more than 300 research papers.

He is the recipient of several awards, both in research and citizenship, and has conducted original research investigation both in experimental animal and human studies, and has actively participated in the development of national and international nutrition policy.

Thomas M. Campbell II

A 1999 graduate of Cornell University, Thomas Campbell is a writer, actor and two-time marathon runner. Born and raised in Ithaca, NY, he has appeared on stage in London, Chicago, and most of the states east of the Mississippi. Mr. Campbell is also a soccer player, skier, hiker and avid reader of health labels. He is thrilled to integrate his passion for language and health as a co-author of The China Study. 

Postscript:

Tom Campbell put his career on hold over the past few years to work side-by-side with his father to co-author The China Study. The profound experience has caused him to redirect his focus.

"Tom has decided to apply to medical school--to practice nutrition-based medicine--and is presently cramming for the MedCAT test coming up this weekend,� says Dr. Campbell.

�Inviting Tom to come home to help me co-author the book was one of the best decisions Karen and I ever made. Tom has had to learn in a few months a prodigious amount of  chemistry-biology-physics information that Pre-Med students take 4 years to do and that he completely omitted during his undergraduate arts degree program, but I am sure that he will do well.�

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