Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

Author(s): T. Colin Campbell

Diets & Food

It seemed to be the eternal question. What should we eat to optimize our nutrition and our health? In 2005, Dr. Colin Campbell's "The China Study" answered this question definitively. Backed by the most extensive study of nutrition ever conducted and bolstered by dozens of additional studies and cases, "The China Study" gave us a simple but powerful answer: Eat a diet based on whole, plant-based food, and dramatically reduce your risk of a broad spectrum of diseases, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. "What We Don't Know" picks up where "The China Study" left off. "The China Study" revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer. "What We Don't Know" answers the question of why. Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? "What We Don't Know" demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten off-track and reveals the elegant wonders of the true wholistic workings of nutrition, from the cellular level to the operation of the entire organism. "What We Don't Know" is a marvelous journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, led by one of the masters of the science.


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"After reading "The China Study" and drastically changing my diet toward the more whole food, plant-based diet recommended by Dr. Campbell, my career numbers shot up when they were supposed to be declining. I thought to myself 'Why doesn't everyone eat this way?!' This new book, "Whole," answers that question with great clarity. Never again be confused about diet and nutrition."
--Tony Gonzalez, Atlanta Falcons, 16-year National Football League player, record-setting tight end
"America's premier nutritionist, T. Colin Campbell, with courage and conviction, articulates how the self-serving reductionist paradigm permeates science, medicine, media, big pharma and philanthropic groups blocking the public from the nutritional truth for optimal health."
--Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., MD, author of the bestselling "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease"
"T. Colin Campbell, based on his long career in experimental research and health policy-making, uncovers how and why there is so much confusion about food and health and what can be done about it. His explanation is elegant, sincere, provocative, and far-reaching, including how we can solve our health-care crisis. Read and enjoy; there's something here to inspire and offend just about everyone (sometimes the truth hurts)."
--Dean Ornish, MD, Founder and President of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; and author of the bestselling "Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease"
""Whole" makes a convincing case that modern nutrition's focus on single nutrients has led to mass confusion with tragic health consequences. Dr. Campbell's new paradigm will change the way we think about food and, in doing so, could improve the lives of millions of people and save billions of dollars in health care costs."
--Brian Wendel, Creator and Executive Producer of "Forks Over Knives"
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For more than 40 years, Dr. T. Colin Campbell 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 author of the bestselling book, The China Study, and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. He has received more than 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers. The China Study was the culmination of a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.

General Fields

  • : 9781937856243
  • : Benbella Books
  • : Benbella Books
  • : 01 May 2013
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : T. Colin Campbell
  • : Hardback
  • : 613.2
  • : 352
  • : black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures