February 6 in Palo Alto: T. Colin Campbell, PhD

[Guest guest]

Please take note of and help publicize the following event:

 

LECTURE: The Lost Art Of Nutrition

 

SPEAKER: T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Project Director of The China

Study and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional

Biochemistry at Cornell University, and Author of the book The China Study

 

DATE: Monday, February 6, 2006, 8:00 PM

 

LOCATION: First Baptist Church, 305 N California Avenue (at

Bryant, 1/4 mile East of Alma), Palo Alto.

 

LECTURE COST: $5-10 donation

 

RESERVATIONS: not needed for lecture

 

SPONSOR: Peninsula Macrobiotic Community

 

WEBSITE: http://peninsulamacro.org

 

INFORMATION: 650 903-0447

 

 

Optional Gourmet Vegetarian Dinner:

 

DATE: Monday, February 6, 2006, 6:30 PM before lecture

 

DINNER COST: $13

 

RESERVATIONS: call 650 599-3320 by Monday 9:30 AM; early dinner

reservations suggested as we may sell out days in advance. Those

without a reservation may not be served.

 

 

For more information, please see the Press Release below.

 

Thank You!

Gerard T. Lum

Newsletter Editor, Peninsula Macrobiotic Community

 

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release: January 16, 2006

The Peninsula Macrobiotic Community (http://peninsulamacro.org) Presents

 

THE LOST ART OF NUTRITION

 

A Lecture by T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Project Director of the China

Study and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional

Biochemistry at Cornell University

 

Many in our society, perhaps most, do not appreciate the simple fact

that we are what we eat. We pay a huge price for this

misunderstanding. Many believe that the single most important

disabling budgetary factor in our society is the rising cost of health

care, more aptly known as disease care. Central to this difficulty is

our abject misunderstanding of nutrition, what it means, how it can be

used, how we study its effects, and how national policy on its effects

on health is developed. Using conservative figures, it is easy to

argue that the leading cause of death in the U.S. is our

misunderstanding of nutrition. As a result, we rely on drugs as a

means to health instead of food as a means to health. In brief, the

present system fosters wealth for the few at the expense of health for

the many.

 

Dr. Campbell, with his son Tom, is the author of the recently

published book The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of

Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet,

Weight Loss and Long-Term Health (see http://www.thechinastudy.com).

The New York Times has recognized the study (known formally as the

China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project, a 20 year partnership

which surveyed diseases and lifestyle factors in rural China and

Taiwan) as the " Grand Prix of epidemiology. " In The China Study, Dr.

Campbell details the connection between nutrition and heart disease,

diabetes, and cancer, and also its ability to reduce or reverse the

risk or effects of these deadly illnesses. For an excerpt from the

Introduction, visit

http://www.thechinastudy.com/PDFs/ChinaStudy_Excerpt.pdf .

 

For more than 40 years, Dr. Campbell has been active in experimental

nutrition research and policy development, has authored more than 300

research papers, and has participated in many national and

international diet and health policy reports.

 

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2006 AT 8:00 PM

$5-10 donation requested for lecture (not necessary to reserve if

coming for lecture only)

The First Baptist Church, 305 North California Ave. (at Bryant, 1/4

mile East of Alma), Palo Alto

 

OPTIONAL GOURMET VEGETARIAN DINNER SERVED AT 6:30 PM

$13; Dinner Reservations recommended by Monday, February 6, 9:30 AM,

call (650) 599-3320; early reservations suggested as we may sell out

days in advance. Those without a reservation may not be served.

 

The Peninsula Macrobiotic Community (http://peninsulamacro.org)

sponsors Gourmet Vegetarian Dinners every Monday at The First Baptist

Church in Palo Alto, since 1987.