What is The China Study?
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health advocates a low-fat, plant-based and whole food diet to combat obesity and a plethora of other diseases. The study examined data from millions of death records and questioned thousands of citizens about eating habits. The book links high-protein diets to diseases such as obesity, cancer and heart disease while finding plant-based foods are linked to lower rates of the same diseases.
How does The China Study work?
Eating plant based, low-fat and unprocessed whole foods is a diet destined to help you lose weight. What's unique about this book is how heavily it relies on research to get you to embark on this lifestyle. The author shares research revelations such as data from the Philippines indicating children who ate more protein were more likely to get liver cancer or a study in India that showed rats fed high-protein diets got liver cancer while those eating low-protein diets did not.
What does research say?
Research references are used to back up claims of what constitutes a better diet through out the book. The book's lead author, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, specializes in nutrition research and has written more than 300 research papers, according to the book.