Whole : rethinking the science of nutrition / T. Colin Campbell, PhD ; with Howard Jacobson, PhD.

  • Campbell, T. Colin, 1934-
Date:
[2013]
  • Books

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Description

In 2005, the author's The China Study showed that a diet based on whole, plant-based foods dramatically reduces the risk of a broad spectrum of diseases, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. It revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer. This new book picks up where the previous one left off. It answers the question of why. Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? It demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten off track and reveals the elegant wonders of the true holistic workings of nutrition, from the cellular level to the operation of the entire organism. This is a journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition with implications for our health.

Publication/Creation

Dallas, Texas : BenBella Books, Inc., [2013]

Physical description

xvi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Enslaved by the system : The modern health-care myth ; The whole truth ; My heretical path -- Paradigm as prison : The triumph of reductionism ; Reductionism invades nutrition ; Reductionist research ; Reductionist biology ; Genetics versus nutrition, part one ; Genetics versus nutrition, part two ; Reductionist medicine ; Reductionist supplementation ; Reductionist social policy -- Subtle power and its wielders : Understanding the system ; Industry exploitation and control ; Research and profit ; Media matters ; Government misinformation ; Blinded by the light bringers -- Final thoughts : Making ourselves whole.

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  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    QU145 2013C18w
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781937856243
  • 1937856240